Ruby on Ales is a two-day, single track conference inspired by Ruby, beer, & snow. Reserve a seat and plan to ski, board, or tube when you attend the first annual Ruby on Ales conference in Bend, Oregon.
It just came to my attention as we are preparing for ROA 2012, that only 10 of the 17 videos from last year were posted, the other seven will be coming online shortly. - CPR (1/27/2012)
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"Then it starts to scan the computer and transmit bits of information every time he clicks the mouse while he's surfing. After a while, [...] we've accumulated a complete mirror image of the content of his hard drive [...]. And then it's time for the hostile takeover." -- Lisb...
Ruby is a great language for building web applications and manipulating text but it's also the best language to interact with your favorite Mac apps or even build a new app to sell on the Mac App Store. I will demonstrate how to build a simple GUI app in MacRuby and discuss th...
Puppet and Chef, both of the modern examples of configuration management and systems integration software are written in Ruby. Add Capistrano, Rake, and MCollective to the list and this starts to seem like much more than coincidence. We'll examine the history and implementatio...
A lot of developers think they either can't or don't need to design. But that's just a myth — everyone can benefit from a few simple design concepts. Learn some simple design hacks you can apply to your documentation, presentations and products to make them just a little bit...
You know how to raise and rescue exceptions. But do you know how they work, and how how to structure a robust error handling strategy for your app? Starting out with an in-depth walk-through of Ruby's Ruby's rich failure handling mechanisms -- including some features you may n...
You could work in a business park. You could lust after an office with a window. You could have a monthly company "meeting" at that bar you have to drive to. Or you could change your environment. I helped create Bendyworks with a firm commitment to the importance of envi...
( to the tune of the Ultraman theme song:
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Ultraman.html )
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
Ruby programming guy
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
he's as awesome as _why
Seattle is his home
he's a Ruby brigadier
...got a gr...
Single Project, Multi Purpose Enterprise Applications come in multiple flavors these days: Rails, Sinatra, Grape, ZMQ.
Let's explore a multi-site mulit-purpose single project architecture which serves all aspects of an enterprise design, heavily seated in RACK. Special atte...
Stratocaster is an internal GitHub Ruby project written to replace the organically grown GitHub Event timeline. This is a tale of an overgrown MySQL table being replaced by a more specific Redis setup. We'll see what new possibilities that Redis is able to provide. Also, we'll...
This talk is about a technique for splitting your web applications in half, shifting the model layer into a very clean API running on Sinatra. Its much easier than you think - and with this architecture, you'll experience a great performance boost, and have a useful public fac...
Most Rubyists are becoming comfortable with using TDD for their Ruby code using RSpec, yet have never written a single test for their JavaScript. This talk will introduce Jasmine as an easy to learn, easy to use JavaScript TDD framework to help you start writing tests now. Usi...
