Ruby Hoedown 2007
as the organisers put it
The first Ruby Hoedown, 10-11 August 2007 at Red Hat's Raleigh campus: the single-track programme, both keynotes and the charity workshop.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What makes code beautiful? | Marcel Molina | 01h 04m |
Argues that code beauty reduces to three testable rules — proportion, integrity, clarity — and demonstrates them with a Ruby Amazon S3 XML parser that used a… | ||
| Using C to Tune Your Ruby (or Rails) Application | Jared Richardson | 50m |
Shows how to rewrite numeric hot spots in C using the ruby-inline gem, traditional C extensions built with mkmf and gcc, and the ruby-to-c translator… | ||
| Does Ruby Have a Chasm to Cross? | Ken Auer | 01h 19m |
Argument: Ruby gains real market traction only by turning technical beauty into repeatable customer value, teams and shipping. History shows 2.5% innovators… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 48m | |
A rapid sequence of demos shows concrete tools and results: a test/spec gem that renders RSpec-style specs into Test::Unit files, a JRuby+Java game using Bean… | ||
| Building Games with Ruby | Andrea O. K. Wright | 01h 06m |
Survey of Ruby game work shows concrete tools and working demos: Gambit provides a compact API and was built in nine days; a Rails-based Monopoly clone reaches… | ||
| Charity Workshop: Ruby and Rails Testing Techniques | Chad Fowler, Marcel Molina | 44m |
Claims that Flex mock makes testing and design easier, recommends using mocking routinely for nontrivial unit tests, and shows a concrete example: dealer.draw… | ||
| Exploring Merb | Ezra Zygmuntowicz | 35m |
A compact Ruby web framework that rewrites request parsing for thread safety, keeps the core tiny and plugin-driven, and locks only around ActiveRecord calls… | ||
| Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Adhearsion | Jay Phillips | 46m |
Adhearsion is a Ruby framework that replaces sprawling Asterisk dialplans with readable, database‑driven code using ActiveSupport, AGI and the Adhearsion gem… | ||
| Keynote: The Journey | Bruce Tate | 01h 18m |
Keynote traces Ruby’s rise as an applications language driven by Rails and practical wins: convention reduces Hibernate-style mapping from six artifacts to… | ||
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