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GoRuCo 2009

Ruby developers, Rails developers, web developers, mobile app developers, infrastructure engineers, software architects

Ruby 1.9 compatibility and backporting; ffi C bindings for Ruby; mmap and shared memory in Ruby; eventmachine and scalable socket servers; Waves resource-oriented framework; Rails anti-patterns and reek/metric_fu; SOLID and dependency injection in Ruby; PhoneGap plus WebKit mobile apps; HTML5 client-side SQLite and app cache; Rails 3 integration with Rack middleware; Chef dna.json provisioning for EC2; green threads speedups via mmap

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Where is Ruby Really Heading?Gregory Brown48m
A concrete checklist: porting prawn from Ruby 1.9 back to 1.8 costs about 80–90% of the initial effort unless compatibility is designed in; Ruby 1.9 requires…
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The Ruby Guide to *nix PlumbingEleanor McHugh44m
Argument: Ruby handles low level Unix plumbing by calling the C runtime via Ruby DL to do mmap and shared memory and to spawn many processes, not just by…
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Resource-Oriented Architecture With WavesDan Yoder42m
Waves is a Ruby framework already running in production handling hundreds of thousands of requests and offering pluggable foundations and layers plus a concise…
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Into the Heart of Darkness: Rails Anti-PatternsJake Howerton40m
Practical catalog of Rails anti‑patterns with concrete fixes: finds unused plugins and routes, shows an 80+ line controller method pulled apart, warns about…
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SOLID Object-Oriented DesignSandi Metz47m
Argues that SOLID (especially single responsibility and dependency injection) makes changing code cheap and safe, and demonstrates it by refactoring a…
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Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Ruby and PhoneGapBen Stein46m
Demonstrates a practical stack: PhoneGap plus WebKit loads HTML/CSS/JS inside native web views (Xcode and Eclipse projects), exposes GPS, accelerometer and…
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From Rails to Rack: Making Rails 3 a Better Ruby CitizenYehuda Katz48m
Explains concrete changes in Rails 3: adopts Rack so middleware like Rack middleware and router points at an action become first-class, lets…
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RejectConfVarious Presenters34m
Multiple short demos describe concrete results: Chef cookbooks deployed via dna.json to provision EC2 servers, an app called Thunder that picks a GitHub…
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