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Rails in the Large: How We're Developing the Largest Rails Project in the World

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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I Rock, I Suck, I am - Jumpstart Your Journey to Agile

What's next after reading 'Extreme Programming Explained'? Are you suddenly now an Agile Developer? Likely not - you don't become Agile overnight. It's more of a journey to change how you think and...
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It's Not Always Sunny In the Clouds: Lessons Learned

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 ...
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Guitar Hero®: Behind the Music

The Guitar Hero® community website (http://community.guitarhero.com) is one of the largest production RoR sites on the Internet with 600,000+ registered users. We will cover the process, programmin...
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Lightning Talks: Cloud, a ruby word-cloud generator

Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
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When to Tell Your Kids About Client Caching

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 ca...
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Lightning Talks: Real Travel

Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
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Integrating SMS Messaging with your Rails Application

With the influx of social networking and viral marketing web sites, SMS messaging has become an important part of many web applications. From choosing a gateway provider to parsing messages to send...
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Lightning Talks: Lockdown

Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
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Rails3: Step Off of the Golden Path

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 ...
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Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications

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, templa...
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R-House - Rails for Home Automation

Rails is in the house? Learn how to leverage the power of ruby and rails to create attractive home automation and energy saving solutions for your entire house.
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And the Greatest of These Is ... Rack Support

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 som...
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Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails

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,...
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%w(map reduce).first - A Tale About Rabbits, Latency, and Slim Crontabs

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 ...
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What Makes Ruby Go: An Implementation Primer

A walkthrough of how common and popular Ruby features are actually implemented, with a focus on how they work, why they behave the way they do, and why they do or do not perfom well. If you'd like ...
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Starting Up Fast: Lessons from the Rails Rumble

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. ...
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Art of the Ruby Proxy for Scale, Performance, and Monitoring

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: l...
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HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching

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 explanatio...
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Rails and Legacy Databases

Want to use Rails but are stuck with a nasty existing database? No problem. This session will show you how we managed to defeat an ugly beast of a system. You'll come away armed with some strategie...
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