Tuesday, 2-09-2008
8:00
Tuesday, 2-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Welcome Coffee
(30m)
8:30
Pradeep Elankumaran (Intridea, Inc),
Michael Bleigh (Intridea)
While the convention over configuration pattern that Rails exemplifies gets much attention, Rails' incredible extensibility through Ruby is often-times ignored. This tutorial will help intermediate to advanced Rails developers understand, extend and bend Rails' internal code, for those real-life problems when the out-of-the-box functionality that Rails provides is not enough.
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Ben Scofield (Viget Labs)
Have you ever built a Rails application, only to have the client ask for a blog right before release? With Rails, it's easy to build a single app that does everything, but it's unreasonably difficult to combine two existing projects. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do just that, by creating and using resourceful plugins - they're all you need to integrate distinct applications.
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Jarkko Laine (O'Design),
Geoffrey Grosenbach (Ruby on Rails Podcast)
Rails Ajax helpers are easy to use but have one glaring problem: the Javascript they produce is often totally inaccessible and in any case obtrusive and hard to maintain when your application grows in size. In this tutorial, Dan Webb and Jarkko Laine teach you how building accessible and unobtrusive Ajax applications on top of Rails can be both as easy and as fast as sticking to the old methods.
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10:00
Let's take advantage of having the Rails community all being in one place at the same time AND take the chance to give something back to the projects and community which we so greatly benefit from. Roll up your sleeves and prepare to learn, teach, and most importantly, contribute.
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12:00
Tuesday, 2-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Lunch
(1h 30m)
13:30
Nick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
We'll take a hands-on look at deploying Rails with JRuby. Database connectivity, connection pooling, packaging, session handling, logging, profiling, tuning, debugging, and more. No JRuby experience necessary. Come and try deploying your application with JRuby, and taste the difference!
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Jonathan Weiss (Peritor GmbH),
Mathias Meyer (Independent)
Deploying and monitoring a Rails application is not a trivial task, especially for people coming from the Java or PHP world. This tutorial will introduce the different setup and deployment options available to Rails developers. Covered topics will include JRuby, Mongrel, Capistrano and Webistrano among other monitoring and deployment best practices.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks),
Patrick Farley (ThoughtWorks)
Ruby is the revenge of the Smalltalkers. Not since Smalltalk has a language had such powerful meta-programming facilities. While this may seem like a minor feature, it turns out that surgical meta-programming allows solutions to problems that are clearer, more concise, more maintainable, and take orders of magnitudes fewer lines of code.
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19:00
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited),
Jeremy Kemper (37signals)
More information coming
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20:30
Location: Salon 2
Moderated by: Stefan Henzen
For my master thesis in Software Engineering I am researching challenges in using Rails for implementing Service-Oriented Systems. In my case studies I have found that Rails lacks well-integrated functionality for some common tasks. I have designed two simple plugins that could provide a framework for integrating most of this functionality, and I am looking for feedback.
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Location: Saal Maritim ABC
Following the planned sessions during the day, it's time for RailsConf Europe participants to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
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Location: Salon 3
Moderated by: Phillip Oertel, Johannes Mainusch
- Performance,
- fast https delivery,
- traps to avoid,
- why pro-tools like gomez are good...
- ...and where they are limited,
- Operations Excellence
- fast delivery beyond the datacenter
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Location: Salon 1
Moderated by: Simone Brunozzi
Deploy a Ruby on Rails app in a few minutes on EC2, an Amazon web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
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21:00
Location: Pirate Cove
So your talk has been rejected by the conference chair but you want
to talk about it anyway? Join us at this years RejectConf and talk about all the things that was too radical / daring / funny / crappy / ... to make it into the official program you want.
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Wednesday, 3-09-2008
8:30
Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Welcome Coffee
(30m)
9:00
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.)
Opening remarks.
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9:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
More information coming soon
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10:15
Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
AM Break
(30m)
10:45
Michael Bleigh (Intridea),
Chris Selmer (Intridea, Inc.)
A discussion of the growing development area that lies in between the front and back ends of web applications using real code examples of advanced user interface design and construction. From Lowpro behaviors to block-accepting helpers and interface abstraction, the field for ‘Mid-End’ developers is coming into its own right.
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Matthew Deiters (Inc.)
Page and Fragment caching are great 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, how it works and what you can additionally do to reduce response times and load on your application with little effort.
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Rob Lee (Rattle Research )
In this session we'll look at how we can use DBpedia and ActiveRDF to add semantic markup to web applications. ActiveRDF provides an object relational mapping system for RDF documents. DBpedia is an RDF version of Wikipedia, with around 218 million entities represented as RDF, providing a comprehensive dataset.
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Thomas Enebo (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
JRuby enables a better Rails experience through a number of double plus good features. By supporting Native Threads, JRuby can spawn multiple runtimes and also trivially spawn background jobs. By having access to large numbers of Java libraries, you can easily access virtually any technology known to mankind.
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Jon Dahl (Tumblon)
MapReduce is the distributed processing algorithm that powers Google. EC2 offers on-demand computing. MapReduce can be implemented using Ruby and EC2, providing processing power to Rails applications for a variety of purposes. This talk will cover MapReduce, a Ruby-based implementation using EC2, and how your Rails application may or may not benefit from MapReduce.
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11:35
Stefan Kaes (Stefan Kaes - IT-Consulting und Systemsoftwareentwicklung),
David Anderson (Folklogic.com),
Larry Baltz (Folklogic.com)
Replacing an old system, which has been in use for several years, is never an easy task. In our talk we will show you how we used Rails and other open source technologies to build a new system which, in our view, surpasses the old system in both functionality and usability.
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Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard Inc.)
jQuery is a Rapid-Development JavaScript Library. Rails is a Rapid-Development server-side framework. Together, they're a Rapid-Development powerhouse. Learn how to leverage jQuery to build tight, maintainable Ajax applications.
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Roderick van Domburg (Nedforce)
Using computer science, you can measure application quality based on an assortment of criteria - likewise for Ruby on Rails applications. Learn about gems and methods for measuring code coverage, cyclomatic complexity, coupling, cohesion, and how you can use them to improve your Ruby on Rails applications.
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Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
12:20
Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Exhibit Hall
Lunch
(1h 20m)
13:40
Rod Cope (OpenLogic, inc.)
The Open Source Census (osscensus.org) is a global community initiative to show that open source above the operating system level is widely adopted throughout the world and is deployed in mission-critical settings by large enterprises. Come see how this modern, multi-tiered, REST-based client and web application is securely implemented through a combination of Rails, Ruby, JRuby, and PHP.
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Frederick Cheung (Texperts),
Paul Butcher (Texperts)
Rails app getting too large? Unit tests taking too long to run? Lost in a maze of twisty little model classes, all alike?
In this presentation, we'll discuss how you can factor a single large application into multiple co-operating Rails apps and yet have them appear to the user as a single coherent whole.
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Alex MacCaw (Made by Many),
Stuart Eccles (Made By Many Limited)
Juggernaut offers a lightweight and flexible solution to server push using a Flash client to provide real-time HTML and JavaScript updates to connected clients. This talk will detail the simplest ways to begin using Juggernaut to provide some simple real-time updates for a chat application.
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Fernando Castano (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
This session will focus on the performance lessons learned during the development of a developer collaboration web application.
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Duncan Beevers (Kongregate)
Denormalization of data can ease the pressure when your queries get out of hand, but it shouldn't be handled as an after-thought. Creating first-class representations of your denormalized data makes it easy to keep data in sync and developers on the same page.
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14:30
Till Vollmer (MindMeister/Codemart GmbH)
Online applications have one major drawback when you are offline: They simply do not work. With Google Gears / AIR it is possible to add offline support to your application and make it fully functional while in the plane or somewhere in the wild. This is demonstrated with the mind mapping application "MindMeister".
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Tomaso Minelli (University of Padua)
Using the convention-over-configuration paradigma to create the scaffolding of an application in a few seconds from the database structure, i.e. generate migrations, models (including relations), controllers, streamlined configuration modules and template starting the schema.rb.
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Alan Francis (Cardboard Software),
Paul Wilson (Mere Complexities)
This year, I co-organised Scotland on Rails - the first regional Ruby/Rails conference in the UK. We attracted 20 speakers from all over the world - both local developers, and more famous names (including Koz, Jim Weirich, Bruce Williams, and David A Black) and, at time of writing roughly 70 attendees.
This session will cover some of the good, bad and ugly of running a regional conference.
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Wilson Bilkovich (Engine Yard)
Rubinius is an execution environment for Ruby code. This talk will outline what is included in the 1.0 release, how it got there, and what the future holds. Questions (technical and otherwise) are welcome.
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Ingo Weiss (Metaversum GmbH)
Rails' RESTful routing facility provides developers with conventions for naming controllers and controller methods. However, Rails fails to keep up the RESTful momentum beyond controllers. This presentation is about all the good things that happen when picking up where Rails left off and establishing resource-oriented conventions for helper names and CSS classes.
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15:20
Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Saal Maritim A
TBC
Jonathan Weiss (Peritor GmbH)
This talk will focus on the security of the Ruby on Rails Web Framework. Some do’s and don’ts will be presented along with security best practices for common attacks like session fixation, XSS, SQL injection, and deployment weaknesses.
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Markus Franz (Sugoma KG)
Ruby on Rails is cool stuff for web services and other business apps. This session shows how to make RoR go well with object oriented databases.
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Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
Martin Sadler (CitySafe)
Once upon a time there was a browser, now there are many, and as developers we have to ensure our web applications run on them all (well most of them anyway!).
With the advent of rich internet applications, it's common to have sites which increasingly rely on Javascript. We need a way to ensure our apps run reliably whatever the browser and platform.
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16:05
Wednesday, 3-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Break
(40m)
16:45
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
Nick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
You think Sun is the Java company. Enterprise Edition. Steak and strippers. But Java’s only part of the story, and the story is changing every day. In ten minutes, you’ll get a whirlwind tour of a different Sun, one that gives hardware breaks to startups, open sources cornerstone software like Solaris, OpenJDK, ZFS and DTrace, and actively funds Ruby projects on and off the JVM.
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17:00
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
Jeremy Kemper (37signals)
More information coming soon
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19:30
Location: Salon 2
Moderated by: Norman Timmler, Johannes Mainusch
Rails development at XING, what we do, how we strive to become and stay agile, report on our first SCRUM experience, good practices, how we work with rules and change of rules..
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Location: Saal Maritim ABC
Following the planned sessions during the day, it's time for RailsConf Europe participants to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
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Location: Salon 3
At RailsConf in Portland, Avi Bryant and Bob Walker gave a presentation on MagLev -- a forthcoming fast Ruby implementation with an integrated shared memory cache and transparent object persistence. That talk generated lots of buzz, but lots of skepticism, too. If you are a developer who might want to use MagLev, or simply want to know what all the fuss was about, come see for yourself.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
8:30
Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Welcome Coffee
(30m)
9:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC
David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.)
Moderated by David A. Black.
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10:15
Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Break
(30m)
10:45
Matt Wood (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Learn how we're using Ruby and Rails to answer the big questions in biology by better understanding our genes. We're building the the next generation of biological research on Rails: high throughput, flexible, multi-petabyte.
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Christian Lupp (codedifferent)
... Or why designers should start to understand code and developers should start to sketch and use design methods like Occams’s razor.
When we design web or mobile applications we have to design user interaction. Developers and designers have to work closely together to create user interfaces with great usability and stunning overall user experience.
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Erno Mononen (Sun Microsystems),
Petr Jiricka (Sun Microsystems)
The NetBeans Ruby IDE is a powerful development environment for Ruby and Rails. In this session we will demonstrate how to use it effectively for developing and debugging a Rails application. We will also cover JRuby specific features, such as Java integration and deploying to GlassFish V3.
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TJ VanSlyke (ELC Technologies)
Behavior-driven development is being recognized as the Next Big Thing in sustainable development and expectation management. Unfortunately, those of us developing complex JavaScript libraries find ourselves without the facilities for BDD. T.J. VanSlyke surveys the JavaScript test harnesses available and offers his solutions for integrating JavaScript testing into your daily workflow.
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11:35
Rany Keddo (play/type GmbH)
Getting started with background jobs should be really simple. With Workling, it is. When you’ve written your code, you can configure it to run over any number of backgrounding systems. I will show how Workling and Starling can be used to build a backgrounded addressbook crawler with an ajax progress indicator wich runs the worker code on a remote machine.
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Ben Scofield (Viget Labs)
Designing RESTful systems in Rails carries many benefits. It is not a problem-free approach, however; there are accessibility issues with the standard conventions, and some functions are more difficult to map to resources than others. In this session, we'll look at solutions for these (and other) problems that arise when you take REST beyond the standard examples.
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Jay Fields (DRW Trading)
Functional testing is complicated. This talk will highlight the tools that are utilized by large teams to successfully test complex domains while focusing on speed, readability, and maintainability.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
12:20
Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Exhibit Hall
Lunch
(1h 20m)
13:40
Sven Fuchs (artweb design),
Marko Seppä (BESTgroup Consulting & Software GmbH)
Multilanguage support is a must for many European Rails applications. A group of developers from leading Rails I18n/L10n plugin solutions have set the goal to make 2008 "the year of Rails I18n core support" by agreeing on a common api and implementing it in collaboration with the Rails core team. This session will give a breakdown of the future of I18n/L10n support in Ruby on Rails.
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Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems)
GlassFish is an open-source, production-quality and Java EE 5 compatible application server. This talk describes how GlassFish provides a robust development & deployment platform for Rails applications. It also describes design patterns followed by the GlassFish community for successful Rails deployment.
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Justin Gehtland (Relevance, Inc.)
This session is code-heavy, slide-light, and requires the attendee to have a firm grasp of Ruby, Rails, and patterns of application architecture.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
14:30
Luca Guidi (Sourcesense)
Click to Globalize is a plugin to translate your interfaces in place.
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Eleanor McHugh (Games With Brains),
Romek Szczesniak (Spiky Black Cat Records)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to use Rails as the backend for a traditional desktop application? Step outside the familiar confines of XHTML and JavaScript to relive the dirty pleasures of a bygone era with two well-known London Ruby hackers. And maybe, just maybe you’ll learn to see the web in a whole new light.
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Carsten Bormann (Universität Bremen, TZI),
Steffen Bartsch (TZI, Universität Bremen)
Fixing vulnerabilities does not mean your Rails app is secure: Applications have their own security objectives, which are as hard to nail down as other requirements. Classical security engineering can lead to an intrusion of waterfall thinking. We discuss how to elicit
actual security requirements in a small-to-medium enterprise and how to map these into actionable elements of a Rails app.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
15:15
Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Saal Foyer
Break
(30m)
15:45
Mike Perham (FiveRuns)
FiveRuns launched the RM-Manage monitoring service targeting the Rails market in 2007, but not without making plenty of mistakes in the process. This talk will discuss the social, technical and business lessons learned over the last year.
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Chris Hobbs (Spongecell)
You have a webiste. You provide a valuable service and want to start raking in the dough. What are your options? This session will provide you with all you need to know to add payment processing to your site. ActiveMerchant provides interface to many credit card gateways and allows consistent branding. This solution will be contrasted to others such as PayPal and Amazon Payments.
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Tammo Freese (Freelancer)
The dynamic nature of Ruby allows us to extend the language
itself. However, with great power comes great responsibility:
We should design our our extensions to be reusable,
and to play well with others.
This talk shows Ruby's extension mechanisms from the meta level
to hook methods and method extensions, and gives guidelines what
to keep in mind when extending both Ruby and Rails.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
16:35
Jonathan Conway (Vzaar)
More and more web applications whether they be large social networking destinations to busy e-commerce sites are finding that video adds significant value while holding an audiences attention.
This talk will outline the various scalable video encoding, storage and serving architectures and show developers how to get around various common pitfalls.
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Ian White (Argument from Design)
resources_controller is one of the plugins available for DRYing up RESTful controllers. I will talk about some of the RESTful patterns that emerged and their implementation. If you're interested in simplifying RESTful controllers, writing your own controller oriented plugins, or just want to know about resources_controller, then this talk is for you.
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Adam Keys (The Real Adam)
Complexity in software development has gone out of favor in the past few years. Despite that, contemporary developers have to deal with complex problems and business rules. Luckily, others have tackled these problems in Ruby and Rails. This presentation reviews those efforts and prepares you to deal with time travel, monetary calculations and other thorny problems.
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Thursday, 4-09-2008
Location: Salon 2
TBC
