A-Z Introduction to Ruby on RailsLocation: Ballroom BRobert Dempsey (Atlantic Dominion Solutions)Add your ratingMany come to RailsConf without being in the Rails world for very long, and are looking for a simple introduction to get started. Robert Dempsey will take you through the A-Z introduction to Rails, from MVC to what’s where in a Rails app. Read more.
8:30am Monday, 05/04/2009jQuery on RailsLocation: Pavilion 9 - 10Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard Inc.)Add your ratingComing soon. Read more.
8:30am Monday, 05/04/2009Running the Show: Configuration Management with ChefLocation: Pavilion 2 - 3Edd Dumbill (O’Reilly Media, Inc. )Add your ratingFew completed Rails apps are architecturally simple. As soon as you grow, you find yourself using multiple subsystems and machines to scale, creating new headaches in configuration management. Help is at hand! This tutorial introduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running commands. Read more.
8:30am Monday, 05/04/2009JRuby on RailsLocation: Ballroom ANick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)Add your ratingGet an introduction to the JRuby ecosystem and all it offers for Rails development and deployment, including setup, gems, java integration, application servers, virtual machine tuning, custom embedding, and more. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 05/04/2009Building Next Generation Web Apps with Rails and SproutCoreLocation: Pavilion 2 - 3Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)Add your ratingFuture web apps will be built on the client-server model: faster, more fluid, desktop-like apps that cannot be fully realized with traditional Rails techniques for building browser views. But Rails is the perfect server framework to integrate with SproutCore, an exciting new framework for building web browser clients. Students will build a full-fledged client-server app using both frameworks. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 05/04/2009A Hat Full of Tricks with SinatraLocation: Ballroom BBlake Mizerany (Heroku)Add your ratingSinatra is Ruby’s most powerful and agile micro-framework. This small package packs a huge punch. Learn why you need this tool on your belt and how to use it properly. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 05/04/2009Solving the Riddle of Search: Using Sphinx with RailsLocation: Pavilion 9 - 10Pat Allan (Freelancing Gods)Add your ratingThe 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. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 05/04/2009Testing, Design, and RefactoringLocation: Ballroom AJim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC), Joe O’Brien (EdgeCase, LLC)Add your ratingEveryone seems to be on the TDD/BDD bandwagon these days. We have gotten very good at the first two phases of the Red/Green/Refactor cycle. But in our push toward releasing new code and functionality, sometimes the Refactor phase gets the short end of the stick. Sadly, without refactoring, our code base can quickly become a nightmare of highly coupled, highly redundant code. Read more.
June 2, 2009
SCHEDULE: 3 HOUR TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Schedule: 3 hour tutorial sessions: RailsConf 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 04 - 07, 2009, Las Vegas, NV!
