RailsConf 2011
as the organisers put it
RailsConf 2025 is the world’s largest gathering of Rails developers, brought together to further discussion and learning about building, managing, and testing Rails applications. With a specific focus on Rails, conference topics can range from new users to administration to advanced techniques.
who it's for
rails developers, engineering managers, startup founders, site reliability engineers, frontend developers, devops engineers, technical educators
topics
Rails asset pipeline and fingerprinting; CoffeeScript and Sass defaults; Sprockets preprocessing and asset gems; PJAX with Backbone/Eco hybrids; prepared statement caching on Postgres; serialize with coder API (JSON/Marshal/encryption); Rack streaming with body proxy; continuous deployment and auto-revert defenses; one-button deploys and push-train releases; A/B testing and validated learning metrics; developer education via screencasts and tutorials; scaling Rails at high traffic and growth
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| RailsConf 2011, David Heinemeier Hansson | David Heinemeier Hansson | 59m |
Rails 3.1 introduces the asset pipeline that enforces structure (empty folders) and a load path so assets live in app/assets, lib/assets, vendor/assets instead… | ||
| Lessons Learned | Eric Ries | 37m |
Argues that startups must treat products as experiments and use build–measure–learn feedback loops, validated learning and “innovation accounting” to reduce… | ||
| Double Dream Hands: So Intense! | Aaron Patterson | 48m |
Adds prepared statement caching to Rails 3.1 with the same front‑end API so existing code gets faster on Postgres (benchmarks show ~4,600 → ~5,500 qps) while… | ||
| Ruby Heroes Awards | Nathaniel bi | 26m |
Announces the Ruby Heroes process: public nominations, a shortlisting by prior winners and six awards decided from 465 nominations. Highlights concrete… | ||
| RailsConf 2011: Corey Haines | Corey Haines | 13m |
Argues that deliberate repetition beats talent: run examples from Roger Bannister and an Ironman to coding rituals, recommends practice the fundamentals like… | ||
| Code for America | Dan Melton | 21m |
Code for America places 20 fellows in 13 cities for a year to build open source apps inside government, attracts 360 applicants for 20 spots, pays a modest… | ||
| Etsy | Chad Dickerson | 24m |
Etsy deploys code about 25 times per day with a 70-person engineering team and gets commits live in 21 minutes commit-to-live. A one-button deploy lets any… | ||
| Craft, Engineering, and the Essence of Programming | Glenn Vanderburg | 35m |
Argues that the old software‑engineering analogy is wrong: Jack Reeves (1992) shows the source code is the design, compilers fill the third slot, and economics… | ||
| The LivingSocial Story | Aaron Batalion | 13m |
Company grows from four to 1,400 in 18 months and builds internal scale tools including native iPad sales apps, merchant e‑signatures and realtime deal… | ||
| nothing matches | ||