railsconf 2008

LearnHub.com1

•Wesley Moxam

•Carsten Nielsen

•Libin Pan

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RailsConf 200805.29 - 06.01

Portland, Oregon

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1800+http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536409125/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Expo Hallhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536649439/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Keynote(s)

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Chad Fowler

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• Make People Happy

• Obsess over Aesthetics

• Observe the Culture Code

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOOuWjhOFQ

Great Software

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Ruby Heroeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wayemoyce/2545946378/

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• Evan Weaver - mongrel

• Tom Copeland - RubyForge

• James Edward Gray II - TextMate Book

• Ilya Grigorik - igvita.com

• Yehuda Katz - Merb & JQuery

• Ryan Bates - Railscasts

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• The Great Surplus

• Sleep More

• Read Paper

• Share

• 4 day work week

http://www.vimeo.com/1096456?pg=embed&sec=1096456

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Jeremy Kemper - Rails 2.1http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2539878870/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Kent Beckhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2540065485/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Rails Core Teamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2546018742/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Tutorials - May 29

• Refactoring

• Meta-programming

• Hobo

• Design for Developers

• CI

• AIR

• Contribute to Open Source project

• Testing Tricks

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Sessions

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Highlights

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Entrepreneurs on Rails• What you need

• Before you start (Why, Goal, Cash)

• Brand

• Marketing

• Make it Work

• Raising Money

• Getting Out

Dan Benjamin @ Rails Machinehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536611979/in/set-72157605325511779/

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Merb/DataMapper - Yehuda Katz

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Ruby that scales™http://ruby.gemstone.com/

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GitHub - Chris Wanstrathhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rayvinly/2547662828/

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Assembling Pages LastAaron Batalion @ LivingSocial

• ESI - Edge Side Includes

• Edge Caching

• FragmentFu

• From mongrel-esi to Akamai

• Pros & Cons

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• Why

• Time

• Resource

• Trigger

• How

• General Purpose - BJ

• Distributed Process - SQS

• Time-Scheduled - cron

• Speed + Scalability - Starling/Workling

Asynchronous ProcessingJonathan Dahl @ RailSpikes

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Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of TestingDan Manges @ ThoughtWorks & zak

• Short Build times

• No database

• Model Factory

• Tests in Parallel

• Maintainable

• Comprehensive Coverage

http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/railsconf-08-slides-for-testing-talk

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Scaling Ruby from the Inside OutEzra Zygmuntowicz @ Engine Yard

• Cloud Computing

• SSH doesn’t scale

• Vertebra

• XMPP

• Ejabberd

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• Moving code from controller to models

• No UI to Add == No Model

• composed_of

Best Practice RefactoringChad Pytel @ ThoughtBot

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Podcast & Screencast

• Rails Envy - Gregg Pollack

• Railscasts - Ryan Bates

• Peepcode - Geoffrey Grosenbach

• Learning Rails - Christopher Haupt / Michael Slater

• Pragmatic Studio - Mike Clark

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More

• Phusion Pasenger

• Nginx

• Git Talk

• Facebook on Rails

• RSpec Story Runner

• Design Patterns

• Yellowpage.com rewriting

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Panels

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Lighting Talks

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• Shared Copy.com

• Pastie

• RailsBrain

• Method Trails

• iPhone on Rails

http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2008/06/railsconf-2008-lightning-talks.html

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Birds of a Feather

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Events

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Videoshttp://LearnHub.com/

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What’s next?

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Review

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•The Good• The Bad

•YMMV

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Miscellaneous

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• http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home

• http://www.rubyinside.com/railsconf-2008-round-up-910.html

•http://Rails.LearnHub.com

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