RailsConf Europe 2008
who it's for
rails developers, ruby developers, jruby users, web operations engineers, application architects, legacy maintainers, plugin and gem authors
topics
Ruby 1.8/1.9 feature compatibility; JRuby memory and Rails 2.2 on JVM; asset optimization and CDNs; Rails 2.2 performance tests (CSV output); GC tuning patch for Ruby/Rails; REXML denial-of-service fix and backports; git cherry-pick backport workflow; gem-based plugins and dependency support; thread safety via connection pooling and class preloading; Warbler WAR packaging for Ruby frameworks
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| RailsConf Europe 08: David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.), Ru | David A. Black | 01h 03m |
Provides an EC2 image with 1.8.6 / 1.8.7 / 1.9.0 (15 user accounts, instructions at 2008.rubyconf.org/ec2.txt) so attendees can try versions live; catalogs… | ||
| Performance | Jeremy Kemper | 01h 02m |
Shows concrete wins: a real page that takes 4.38s but has a 329ms Rails slice, so focusing on assets (combine files, gzip, expires headers, CDN) cuts… | ||
| Panel Discussion | David Heinemeier Hansson | 58m |
Announces immediate releases: 2.0.4 (bug fixes), 2.1.1 (large backport sweep) and a 2.2 beta coming soon; Rails bundles the REXML DoS fix to protect apps until… | ||
| RailsConf Europe 08: David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) | David Heinemeier Hansson | 01h 06m |
Claim: legacy is an opinion that inevitably appears as developers learn, not a technology failure; Rails projects age too — Basecamp spans ~5 years and still… | ||
| RailsConf Europe 08: Nick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), M | Nick Sieger | 12m |
Sun positions itself beyond Java by open-sourcing Solaris/OpenJDK/ZFS/DTrace and funding Ruby work; a concrete Rails app Project Keenai runs JRuby on GlassFish… | ||
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