Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008
2008-09-04..2008-09-06
Austin, United States
[Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008, Lone Star Ruby Conference 2009]
who it's for
ruby developers, rails developers, devops engineers, engineering managers, tooling and library authors, desktop Mac developers, scientific programmers, computer science educators
topics
ruby on EC2 deployments; capistrano and vlad automation; god process monitoring; rufus scheduler jobs; sqs and s3 for storage and queues; ruby 1.9 migration features; grammar DSL parsing and generators; MetricFu code metrics; NArray for numerical work; RubyCocoa and MacRuby desktop apps; jQuery and UJS with ruby frameworks; SproutCore data binding
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby in the Cloud | Mike Subelsky | 46m |
A Rails app moves from a single office server to EC2 and is running across multiple disposable instances in about 30 minutes to migrate, using a payload-based… | ||
| The Next Ruby | Bruce Williams | 47m |
Overview of Ruby 1.9 with concrete migration notes: claims faster than 1.8 but less stable, source and build from Subversion, standard library now bundles gems… | ||
| ii hidden gems | James Edward Gray | 42m |
Demos of underused Ruby libraries and exact wins: using NArray to replace nested arrays for a PPM image drops generation from ~1.3s to ~0.01s and implements… | ||
| ruby best practice patterns | Rein Henrichs | 32m |
Argues for concrete, small-scale refactorings: split big routines into composed method calls (example from Capistrano), use block-based execute-around patterns… | ||
| Using Metrics to Take a Hard look at your code | Jake Scruggs | 53m |
Shows concrete tooling and outcomes: runs code coverage, flog and cyclomatic tools (securu), and source control churn, then aggregates them with MetricFu… | ||
| JavaScript Frameworks with Ruby | Wynn Netherland | 46m |
Survey of Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, MooTools, YUI, XJS and SproutCore with concrete tradeoffs: jQuery favors CSS selectors and plugin-safe noConflict… | ||
| Grammar a BNF like Ruby DSL Parsing | Eric Mahurin | 46m |
A Ruby DSL represents grammars as plain objects and an engine generates parsers (an interpreter called ruby0, a Ruby code generator and a C-compiled… | ||
| Care and Feeding of Ruby Developers | Steve Sanderson | 40m |
Conference notes claim Ruby community treats visual aesthetics as core, uses Rails and cutting‑edge gems so implementers also plan features, and runs tight… | ||
| Creating Desktop Applications with Ruby on Mac | Brian Cooke | 55m |
Shows how to build a native Mac app using the RubyCocoa bridge, Xcode and Interface Builder to wire KVC/KVO bindings and a simple controller. Demonstrates a… | ||
| Building and Managing a Ruby Infrastructure | Jeremy Hinegardner, Fernand Galiana | 54m |
Starts from a brittle single repo, moves through plugin sprawl to a service-oriented stack of about 20 gems, with a central primordial gem installed on every… | ||
| Unconventional Wisdom | Bruce Tate | 56m |
Describes building two nonprofit apps: Changing the Present (prints donation cards) and a teachers’ wish‑list that uses affiliate fees to cover $2–$4k/year per… | ||
| Double Click to Wow | Evan Phoenix | 43m |
A rapid history of Ruby memes and what actually changed practice: the dependency injection rash arrives from Java, people build DI frameworks for Ruby and then… | ||
| Ruby Past Present and Future | yukihiro Matsumoto 'Matz' | 37m |
Language history: Ruby starts 1993, public 1995, gains huge momentum from Rails. Implementations include MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and YARV; YARV runs up to 50x… | ||
| Packet -Fu with Ruby | Tod Beardsley | 56m |
Builds a Ruby packet library called Packet Fu that actually forges, parses and injects Ethernet/IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP/ARP/IPv6 packets using bin_data and… | ||
| Using Jquery with Ruby Web Frameworks | Yehuda Katz | 56m |
Writes an edit‑in‑place jQuery plugin test‑first using ScrewUnit and a Merb test plugin, implements behaviors until specs pass: click swaps a P for an input… | ||
| Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom | James W. McGuffee | 10m |
Course uses Ruby as the tool for a data storage systems class and shows it handles real assignments: a prefix-expression calculator, HTML parsing and string… | ||
| Resource Driven Web Development with Waves | Dan Yoder | 46m |
Waves is a Ruby web framework that models HTTP as methods on resources, implemented as real Ruby classes and methods that support get/put/post/delete and a… | ||
| Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails... | Francis Sullivan | 45m |
A free ad‑supported Ruby on Rails app runs as a Linux cloud backend and as a local Windows install in customer sites, with 450,000+ installations managing 20… | ||
| Ruby Anvil the Desktop Application Framework | Lance Carlson | 37m |
A Ruby desktop application framework called Anvil aims to be an integration-first, toolkit-agnostic and database-agnostic MVC system that uses a standard DSL… | ||
| How Not to Build a Service | Mike Perham | 30m |
Manage 1.0 targets the wrong market (Enterprise) and costs years to rewind; refocus to Rails users, ditch enterprise-only features like custom proxy and… | ||
| Scientific Computing with Ruby Tegu (formerly GSA) | David Richards | 01h 04m |
TIGU is a Ruby workbench that wires existing tools (R, Octave, GSL, RubyFan) into a plugin-driven analysis pipeline, deployable to EC2/Hadoop or Rinda clusters… | ||
| Merb the Pocket Rocket Framework | Yehuda Katz | 01h 00m |
Merb claims real speed — typical request paths hit ~500µs and some actions render <1 ms actions enabling apps at tens of millions of hits/day. It enforces a… | ||
| What's Ruby Doing in a Java IDE like NetBeans? Lots! | Jeffery L. Taylor | 11m |
NetBeans 6.1 ships a Ruby/Rails bundle that works in production and adds concrete IDE features: change highlighting shows blue modified, green new and pink… | ||
| Ruby and Virtual Teams | Jim Mulholland | 09m |
Freelance Rails team runs an 8:30 daily scrum on a single freeconferencecall.com number kept for 1.5 years and bridges long distance with Skype; email uses… | ||
| Ruby Wwithout Borders | Matthew Todd | 08m |
Moved to Moshi, Tanzania in November 2006 and building runnable slides in TextMate to demo location with Google Earth, the project pairs Western Ruby devs with… | ||
| Tactical Design | Glenn Vanderburg | 01h 03m |
Argues that teaching small, actionable rules beats high‑level theory: enforce short methods and few methods per class, mentor by pair programming, and adopt… | ||
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