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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.50, 78 ratings)
A 3 hour tutorial with Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard on jQuery on Rails.
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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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Scott Penberthy (Gilt Groupe),
Michael Bryzek (Gilt Groupe),
Geir Magnusson Jr (Gilt Groupe),
Yonatan Feldman (Gilt Groupe)
Average rating:
(3.93, 44 ratings)
Gilt Groupe is a fascinating e-commerce business, where luxury items are sold at a discount in "flash" sales that mimic the New York sample sale experience. In this model, passionate buyers rush to grab items in a time-sensitive shopping cart, choose what they want, and check out within seconds. We discuss how to handle flash-floods of shopping cart updates via sharding in Rails.
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Ryan Singer (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.65, 106 ratings)
Ryan will explain the key concepts you should understand to design and implement UI for your apps. He'll cover screen-level details like language and visual techniques as well as implementation issues like modeling, markup, and view code.
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Ilya Grigorik (igvita.com)
Average rating:
(3.98, 45 ratings)
Let's build a mini-Google and compute the PageRank score for a 1-million page web – that's a non-trivial challenge! High performance computing may not be Ruby's strength, but we will investigate the available gems, tools, and algorithms which make this a tractable problem (spoiler: it's possible).
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Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc),
Thomas Enebo (Engine Yard, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.30, 30 ratings)
Since last year, JRuby usage has grown tremendously. We've also released more than a dozen releases, fixed hundreds of bugs, and committed thousands of revisions. In this session we'll update you on JRuby performance in real applications, show you what people are using it for like GUIs and games, and demonstrate how JRuby is improving the Ruby and Rails worlds.
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Ninh Bui (Phusion),
Hongli Lai (Phusion)
Average rating:
(3.28, 60 ratings)
5 years after the initial release of Ruby on Rails, multiple large and
successful websites are powered by this innovative and still relatively
young framework. But word is still on the street that Ruby on Rails does
not scale. Is this true?
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ)
Average rating:
(4.51, 43 ratings)
Obie reveals secrets of survival in the Rails consultancy and contracting business, based on his real-life experience as founder and CEO of Hashrocket.
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs)
Average rating:
(4.11, 28 ratings)
We'll be handing out several trophies to people we believe to be Ruby Heroes, and giving them the round of applause they deserve and might not get otherwise.
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Timothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek)
Average rating:
(1.80, 87 ratings)
Keynote by Tim Ferriss, author of the Four Hour Work-Week.
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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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Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard)
Average rating:
(4.24, 58 ratings)
In this talk we will explore the state of the art deployment options for large scale ruby web apps. Ruby web apps become ecosystems of many moving parts over time as they scale. We will outline a scalable architecture for configuring, building, maintaining and scaling the system as a cohesive whole. We will explore technologies like rabbitmq, chef, nanite and EY's new cloud hosting platform.
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ),
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Tobias Lütke (Shopify),
Lewis Cirne (New Relic, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.91, 33 ratings)
Meet three CEO's who have each started a successful Rails-focused company. How did they start, what were the keys to success, what would they do differently? Whether you have started a company or are thinking about it, this will be interesting. Panel discussion and Q&A.
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Alexander Dymo (Pluron, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.66, 70 ratings)
You know Rails 2.x is fast, but your application is still slow. This session goes beyond the basics and gets into advanced areas such as optimizing complex has_many/belongs_to relationships, template rendering, browser performance, database use. The session covers performance-oriented development processes and tools. Special topic: optimizing for deployment on dedicated, VPS and shared hosting.
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Paolo Negri (wooga.com)
Average rating:
(3.56, 57 ratings)
Discover how is possible to use parallel execution to batch process large amount of data, learn how to use queues to distribute workload and coordinate processes, increase the throughput on system with high latency. Have fun with EventMachine, AMQP, RabbitMQ and get rid of that every 5mins cronjob
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Ilya Grigorik (igvita.com)
Average rating:
(4.08, 26 ratings)
A high-performance proxy server is less than a hundred lines of Ruby code and it is an indispensable tool for anyone who knows how to use it. In this talk we'll dissect three real-world examples: live A/B performance testing, extending functionality of existing applications, and real-time traffic analysis and performance monitoring. We'll implement each example using Ruby EventMachine framework.
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Robert Martin (Object Mentor Inc)
Average rating:
(4.94, 81 ratings)
Keynote by Bob Martin, Object Mentor, Inc.
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Ryan Tomayko (GitHub)
Average rating:
(3.65, 43 ratings)
HTTP's basic caching mechanisms have been around for almost a decade and still their advantages and limitations are still not well understood. In this talk, we provide a clear and simple explanation of how HTTP caching works, put forth a system for classifying response cacheability, and argue that HTTP caching should be a fundamental aspect of resource design.
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Matthew Deiters (inc)
Average rating:
(4.55, 40 ratings)
Rails has excellent caching strategies for the server side but did you know typically 80% of a responses time is on network communication? This will be an exploration of all the dirty details of caching your app's personal bits in the client browser. We'll look at what Rails provides and what you can additionally do to reduce response times and load on your application with little effort.
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Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)
Average rating:
(3.61, 18 ratings)
For all its hype, cloud computing really has introduced a potent new scaling mechanism for Rails apps, enabling your architecture to be as nimble and intelligent as your code itself. Yet there are hidden challenges and dangers for the would be cloud-jumper. In this case study, instead of hype, you'll hear the story of OtherInbox, a Rails app that scaled rapidly and cheaply (but not painlessly).
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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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