RailsConf 2009
2009-05-04..2009-05-07
Las Vegas, United States
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who it's for
rails developers, rails core contributors, ruby gem authors, deploy engineers, site reliability engineers, community organisers
topics
Rails 3 Rack-mountable router; view escape-by-default (XSS protection); unobtrusive JS with data- attributes; pluggable ORMs and test frameworks; mountable reusable apps; one-button deploy on AWS with Capistrano; self-healing clustered app nodes; Engine Yard Solo and Flex offerings; publishing small gems and plugins; community workshops (RailsBridge) and mentoring
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Women in Rails | Desi McAdam, Sarah Mei, Lori M Olson | 01h 02m |
Proposes concrete fixes: run monthly RailsBridge workshops targeting designers, returners and non-CS hires, release the slide sets and exercises for reuse, and… | ||
| Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity | David Heinemeier Hansson | 01h 09m |
Rails 3 refactors internals (abstract controller, ActiveRelation) and rewrites the router to be Rack-mountable so multiple apps (Sinatra, even Django parts)… | ||
| Welcome and Announcements | Chad Fowler | 07m |
Fourth international RailsConf opens in Las Vegas with many first-time attendees and a handful who've been all four years. Sponsors Engine Yard and Bluebox… | ||
| How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or Code Ninja | Chris Wanstrath | 35m |
Practical roadmap: pick a memorable blog name, custom design and a consistent tone, practice daily posts, then publish a one-night plugin or tiny library that… | ||
| Agility in Deployment - Rails in the Cloud | Jon Crosby, Joe Arnold, Andy Delcomb | 11m |
Engine Yard shows a concrete deploy stack running on Amazon Web Services: one-button deploy integrated with git and Capistrano, live demo of server-for-server… | ||
| Announcements | Rich Kilmer | 02m |
Attendee mix shows a near even split — roughly one third each from startups, consultancies, and internal corporate teams — signaling Rails use across business… | ||
| A Conversation with Tim Ferriss | Tim Ferriss | 01h 07m |
Author of 4-Hour Work Week says checking email once per week and automating inbox rules raises profits ~30% in a quarter; chooses the book title by running a… | ||
| Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony | greg pollock | 14m |
Six community members receive Ruby Hero awards for concrete contributions: maintenance and features for webrat, the eventmachine core and AMQP/XMPP drivers… | ||
| Rails Core Panel | David Heinemeier Hansson, Yehuda Katz, Jeremy Kemper, Michael Koziarski, Rick Olson, Joshua Peek | 42m |
Panel answers focus on concrete changes and asks: progress on mountable reusable apps, a pluggable JSON backends mechanism to avoid json gem clashes, and a… | ||
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