Personal schedule for Aslak Hellesøy
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Blake Mizerany (Heroku)
Average rating:
(3.62, 21 ratings)
Sinatra is Ruby's most powerful and agile micro-framework. This small
package packs a huge punch. Learn why you need this tool on your belt
and how to use it properly.
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Pat Allan (Freelancing Gods)
Average rating:
(3.36, 22 ratings)
The more complex your search queries becomes, the uglier
your SQL statements get, even with ActiveRecord's helpful magic.
Reclaim some clarity in your code by using the Sphinx search engine, a
powerful tool that lets you search across your models in fast and
complex ways.
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Location: Conference Room 9
Moderated by: Matt Conway
Average rating:
(4.25, 8 ratings)
Cloud computing is all the rage these days, learn one method for deploying your rails apps into the cloud using capistrano and rubber.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.11, 64 ratings)
Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson.
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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub),
Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub),
PJ Hyett (GitHub),
Scott Chacon (GitHub),
Jon Maddox (Fanzter inc.)
Average rating:
(3.63, 35 ratings)
The four full time GitHub employees talk about open source, community, building a business, and the future of social coding.
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Kevin Barnes (OG Consulting)
Average rating:
(1.89, 47 ratings)
This talk explores why fixtures are mostly bad, what can be done to “fix” the unmanageable miscreant that fixtures have evolved into, and cross-examines the new breed of data generators.
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Larry Karnowski (Relevance, Inc.),
Jason Rudolph (Relevance, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.14, 69 ratings)
Learn how to enjoy the benefits of test-driven development beyond just your Ruby on Rails code; JavaScript is code too, and it deserves tests! With the help of some handy plugins, Rails lets you test your unobtrusive JavaScript using tools such as Screw.Unit and Smoke. The tools and approach are library-agnostic; they work well with jQuery, Prototype, and others.
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Marc-André Cournoyer (Sauté Inc.),
Christian Neukirchen (Rack Core Team),
Blake Mizerany (Heroku),
Ryan Tomayko (GitHub),
Adam Wiggins (Heroku),
James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
Average rating:
(2.54, 28 ratings)
The way we deploy ruby apps is changing. This is a a rare opportunity to discuss issues and ideas in real time, directly with the key people from each part of the stack, all in one room.
This is truly a killer line-up: Marc-André Cournoyer (Thin), Christian Neukirchen (Rack), Ryan Tomayko (Rack::Cache, Sinatra), Blake Mizerany (Sinatra), Adam Wiggins and James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
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Scott Chacon (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.26, 91 ratings)
Much of the Ruby and Rails community is now using Git, but there are a number of fun things that are a bit more difficult to get the hang of that are incredibly helpful to know when using Git. This session will go over some advanced Git usage for the casual or intermediate Git user.
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Aslak Hellesøy (Bekk Consulting AS)
Average rating:
(3.91, 87 ratings)
Cucumber is a novel tool for Behaviour Driven Development. While early BDD tools like RSpec and Shoulda are geared towards programmers, classes and objects, Cucumber nicely fills the communication gap between customers, programmers and testers. This session will change how you approach requirements and testing of Rails applications.
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Jon Crosby (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(3.55, 31 ratings)
The ability to release early and often becomes more important as your product scales. With Engine Yard Flex, we'll demonstrate creating 'One Button' deployments that scale. We'll demonstrate building a high-volume Rails cluster and show how easy it is to create a 'Clone of Production' to test at scale.
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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.23, 61 ratings)
Keynote by Chris Wanstrath, GitHub.
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Scott Raymond (Alamofire, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 10 ratings)
The Facebook game PackRat uses Ruby to handle over 12 million
page views a day. This session will hightlite some tricks and
techniques used to build and grow a profitable app. Topics include:
the promise and perils of relying on AWS, how scaling the database
tier nearly killed us, advanced caching strategies, and when The Big
Rewrite might actually be a good idea.
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Matt Aimonetti (m|a agile consulting)
Average rating:
(3.55, 60 ratings)
Rails3 is the result of the Merb and Rails merger. While the usual ActiveRecord/ERB/Prototype/Test::Unit full stack is still the default, Rails3 now let you step off of the golden path.
Learn more about alternative stack components, when and why to use them by looking at concrete examples.
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John Woodell (Google, Inc.),
Ryan Brown (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.09, 11 ratings)
JRuby developers can now use the Rails or Merb frameworks to deploy applications to
Google App Engine. We will provide an overview of App Engine, show few demos,
provide some insight into using DataStore.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks),
Paul Gross (Braintree Payments)
Average rating:
(3.74, 27 ratings)
While others have been debating whether Rails can scale to enterprise levels, we've been demonstrating it. This session shows how to scale Rails development to the heights.
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Average rating:
(4.00, 7 ratings)
Back by popular request, several Heroku team members will be on hand to walk you through the latest and greatest features of the Heroku platform and answer your questions.
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Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(3.00, 8 ratings)
Come see how well IronRuby runs Rails.
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Location: Pavilion 2 - 3
Moderated by: Gabriel Horner
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Let's talk about machine tags and semantic tags. How to use them in Rails and what interesting things people are doing with them.
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Tony Hillerson (EffectiveUI)
Average rating:
(2.73, 15 ratings)
RubyAMF is a Rails plug-in that allows easy, fast integration between Flex apps and Rails using Adobe’s open format for transferring typed data to/from Flash apps. We’ll walk through building a Flex application powered by a Rails back-end service. You’ll see how to work with translation to native objects in both directions, working with hierarchical data and more advanced configuration options.
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Marty Andrews (Cogent Consulting Pty Ltd)
Average rating:
(4.46, 26 ratings)
Automated code quality tools are just starting to become popular in the Ruby and Rails world, even though they've been around a long time in the Java and .NET communities. Learn what the tools are, and how to use them to improve the consistency, testability and overall quality of your Ruby and Rails applications.
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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Carl Lerche (Strobe, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.48, 65 ratings)
One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to embed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the development of components that range from user authentication to a fully featured forum. In this talk, Yehuda and Carl will give an in-depth tutorial by building a CMS, creating a gem out of it, and integrating it into another app.
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