MountainWest RubyConf 2007
2007-03-16..2007-03-17
Salt Lake City, United States
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who it's for
ruby developers, rails developers, language implementers, tooling integrators, embedded systems developers, community organisers, code reviewers
topics
Ruby queue systems; community driven development; Bayesian networks in Ruby; Ruby implementers panel; Masterview dashboard; black-box testing with Ruby; JRuby integration and performance; Ruby.NET and CLR integration; USB device programming with Ruby; Rails code review practices; lightning talks session
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby Queue | Ara T. Howard | 50m |
A command‑line tool called rq sets up instant Linux clusters using a shared nfs hierarchy and an embedded sqlite queue, with custom gems for POSIX locks and a… | ||
| Pragmatic Community Driven Development in Ruby | Gregory Brown | 32m |
Case study of building ruport the Ruby reporting library: why the project switches license to match Ruby to avoid friction, why it moves issue tracking from… | ||
| Simple Bayesian Networks with Ruby | Carl Youngblood | 47m |
A Ruby library called SBN implements simple Bayesian networks, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo approximate inference engine (MCMC) rather than exact inference… | ||
| Ruby Implementers Panel | John Lamb | 44m |
Cardinal targets Parrot with a small VM prototype and JIT and garbage collection work under way; Parrot reports JIT speedups twice as fast to five times as… | ||
| Masterview | Jeff Barczewski | 59m |
A WYSIWYG template engine for Ruby that generates ERB files and plugs into Rails as a gem or plugin, letting designers edit with NVU WYSIWYG editing or… | ||
| Black-boxing with Ruby | James Britt | 35m |
Practical recipes for using Ruby to automate non‑Ruby services and what actually works: shows a command‑line client that posts to Track (a gem called… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 32m | |
A rapid sequence of concrete demos and claims: a small script implementing a binary badge lottery that randomizes eligible IDs and shows winners; a WAX… | ||
| Keynote: '...then what?' | Chad Fowler | 01h 18m |
Claim: Ruby wins mainstream adoption — evidence: first International RubyConf had 39–40 people, by 2005 rooms of ~200 with ~50 doing Ruby professionally… | ||
| Ruby CLR and Ruby.NET | John Lam | 52m |
A Ruby CLR bridge exposes .NET types as proxy objects by emitting DynamicMethod shims in IL, marshals values (boxed integers) across the boundary and caches… | ||
| Ruby USB | Michael Hewner | 39m |
Ruby code reads HID report descriptors and controls cheap USB gadgets using libusb and a HID parser so raw mouse and keyboard reports become annotated Ruby… | ||
| Rails Code Review | Jamis Buck, Marcel Molina | 47m |
Live code review shows concrete fixes: move pagination and validation logic out of controllers into models or a service object, use exceptions and save! for… | ||
| JRuby: Not Just Another Ruby Implementation | Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas E Enebo | 01h 02m |
JRuby aims to run real Ruby apps on the JVM and demonstrates concrete results: passes 98% of Rails unit tests, jruby-complete single-jar distribution for easy… | ||
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