RailsConf 2009 timeline

Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications - RailsConf

In this session Alexander covers steps of performance improvement process necessary to make real-world production Rails application fast and keep... Read more

Call into your Ruby code! Writing voice-enabled apps in Ruby with Adhearsion - RailsConf

Adhearsion is an open-source telephony development framework with which Rails developers can easily integrate phone-related features into their web... Read more

Heroku: Guided Tour and Q & A - RailsConf

Back by popular request, several Heroku team members will be on hand to walk you through the latest and greatest features of the Heroku platform... Read more

Interfaces are Dumb (and that's a Very Good Thing) - RailsConf

Both Webhooks and Rack enable creative uses that exceed the vision of the system implementor. By following their example, you can allow... Read more

Working Effectively with Legacy Rails Code - RailsConf

Rails has powered Oakley.com, a site generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the past two years. It has 80 models, an equal number of... Read more

Starting Up Fast: Lessons from the Rails Rumble - RailsConf

The Rails Rumble is a 48-hour innovation competition in which teams of up to four developers embrace their environmental constraints to create a... Read more

IronRuby on Rails - RailsConf

IronRuby actively tracks how well it runs Rails, Merb, Sinatra, and a bunch of other Ruby frameworks. This talk will show real Rails apps running... Read more

%w(map reduce).first - A Tale About Rabbits, Latency, and Slim Crontabs - RailsConf

the talk will present some situations and then the solutions (with code and possible real time demo) distribute a big batch of local atomic... Read more

Art of the Ruby Proxy for Scale, Performance, and Monitoring - RailsConf

In this session we will first walk through the basics of event-driven architectures and high-performance network programming in Ruby using the... Read more

What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby Too - RailsConf

Keynote by Bob Martin, Object Mentor, Inc. Read more

Lightning Talks - RailsConf

Short adhoc presentations from the audience. Read more

Advanced Views with Erector - RailsConf

Erector is a Ruby gem that implements the “builder” pattern for HTML generation. It can save developers time by encouraging more advanced reuse in... Read more

HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching - RailsConf

Did you know that nearly one-third of the HTTP specification, RFC 2616, is dedicated to caching? Or that the Cache constraint is so fundamental to... Read more

Build an App, Start a Movement - RailsConf

This talk walks through how we developed TweetCongress.org including: - Finding APIs and free data sources online - Building a Twitter mashup... Read more

Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved - RailsConf

A robust suite of acceptance tests ensures your Rails app stays working giving you extreme freedom to refactor. Unfortunately, traditional... Read more

When to Tell Your Kids About Client Caching - RailsConf

To successfully build a scalable web application we need to leverage caching as early in the request as possible. This presentation will explore... Read more

And the Greatest of These Is ... Rack Support - RailsConf

Over the past year, Rails has gradually become a better, more connected citizen within the Ruby web space. The Merb merger is one part of that, but... Read more

Building a Video Portal in Rails - Or How the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Started Streaming - RailsConf

A team of Rails developers, designers, and an enterprising media and licensing company embarked on a challenge: How to put every video in the 4Kids... Read more

Integrating Flex and Rails with RubyAMF - RailsConf

One of the coolest things about Rails, besides the obvious, is that you get a multi-format client almost for free. RubyAMF is a Rails plug-in that... Read more

Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails - RailsConf

Code quality tools are starting to emerge more and more in the Ruby community. Tools like Flog, Heckle, Reek, Roodi, Saikuro and Simian are all... Read more

Rails: A Year of Innovation - RailsConf

When you’re working in an open language, using open frameworks, the amount of innovation from the community can be staggering. A single developer... Read more

Integrating SMS Messaging with your Rails Application - RailsConf

These days, almost everyone has a cell phone. SMS text messaging is the oldest, most reliable means to communicate with a wide range of mobile... Read more

It's Not Always Sunny In the Clouds: Lessons Learned - RailsConf

In theory, Rails’ shared-nothing architecture is ideal for cloud computing, because increasing capacity is simply a matter of adding more servers... Read more

The Russian Doll Pattern: Mountable apps in Rails 3 - RailsConf

One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to embed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the development of... Read more

Modeling Workflow in Ruby and Rails - RailsConf

“Workflow” is a generic concept that can mean different things to different people – a book author is going to think of workflow a lot differently... Read more