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James Adam (Free Range)
Average rating:
(3.38, 69 ratings)
A no-nonsense guide to making the most of the newly-integrated "engines" functionality in Rails 2.3, from the guy who wrote the engines plugin itself.
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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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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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Daniel Lathrop (The Dallas Morning News),
Eric Mill (Sunlight Foundation),
Wynn Netherland (Squeejee)
Average rating:
(3.91, 11 ratings)
This panel will present views on how to improve civic life, protect democracy and hold politicians accountable using Web 2.0 technology. The panelists will lay out the massive need for programmers to deploy their skills in reimagining government in a way that promotes transparency, collaboration and public participation.
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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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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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Location: Conference Room 9
Moderated by: Chris Eppstein
Average rating:
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Compass is the awesomest (OK only) Sass-based stylesheet framework.
Sass is the awesomest syntax for writing stylesheets.
Bring your laptop and your favorite project to this informal BoF session. In this lab will get you up and running with Compass and Sass. If you're already a pro, come to help out and also to pick the creator of Compass's brain about advanced techniques.
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Location: Pavilion 1
Moderated by: Eric Mill
Average rating:
(2.00, 1 rating)
President Obama has called for a new age of open and transparent government, and you can help usher it in.
Led by Sunlight Labs, this session will introduce you to open government projects by your fellow Rubyists, let you propose your own, then get out of your way and let you start hacking.
Sunlight Labs is part of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to transparent government.
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Michael Bleigh (Intridea)
Average rating:
(4.31, 16 ratings)
Twitter is a bustling universe full of opportunities to create crazy, useful and crazy useful applications. Get a kick start to creating Twitter applications in Rails using TwitterAuth, the Twitter authentication stack for Rails.
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Greg Borenstein (Grabb.it (http://grabb.it))
Average rating:
(3.60, 10 ratings)
Facebook offers a seductive platform for accessing the most intimate social data of 150 million users. Up close, though, this beauty is horribly marred by some disgusting boils: proprietary markup, a disregard for standards, shifting APIs, and an insane dev environment. I'll present strategies for Facebook integration without causing your app, your process, or yourself any unsightly scarring.
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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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Nick Plante (Zerosum Labs),
Joe Fiorini (Within3),
Ben Scofield (Heroku),
Chris Saylor (Todobebé),
James Golick (Protose Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.70, 30 ratings)
The Rails Rumble is a 48-hour innovation competition in which teams of up to four developers embrace their environmental constraints to create a number of compelling microapps with Ruby and Rails. In this panel we'll talk to a number of Rumble participants and discover the tips, tricks, and techniques they used to successfully launch innovative web properties in an extremely short time frame.
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Location: Conference Room 11 - 12
Moderated by: Sean Schofield
Session will be led by Sean Schofield the creator and maintainer of the Spree project. Come join us for a free form discussion about Spree and online commerce with Ruby on Rails in general. This is your chance to meet some of the people behind this project, ask questions and to suggest new features.
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Location: Pavilion 2 - 3
Moderated by: Michael Bleigh
Are you working with the Twitter API or are interested in getting started? Meet up with other Twitter developers to talk about the things you're working on and maybe learn a few new tricks. Moderated by Michael Bleigh who is giving the "Twitter on Rails" talk.
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Average rating:
(3.27, 11 ratings)
Has the corporate gig or client work sucked all the fun out of coding? Looking to build your freelancing portfolio? Find a cause you care about build something! Micro apps can have a big impact and build your career in the process. We'll share tips we learned in building TweetCongress.org, an effort to promote government transparency.
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Ben Scofield (Heroku)
Average rating:
(4.42, 43 ratings)
The benefits of Rack support in Rails have become increasingly obvious; Rails Metal and integrating multiple Rack applications have made possible architectures that were impractical before, and some long-held opinions are ripe for change. In this session, we'll see how to set up this integration and explore real examples of how it can be used—including the rehabilitation of page caching.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Jeremy Kemper (37signals),
Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited),
Rick Olson (GitHub),
Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Joshua Peek (Consultant)
Average rating:
(3.59, 39 ratings)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers.
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