Schedule: Ruby sessions

Vibrant and evolving, Ruby is a breeding ground for innovation. Despite early dominance through Rails, it has avoided stagnation in the web framework world. Hear about the changes in Rails 3, and the power that Rack brings to web apps. Ruby is on the leading edge of web server technology, and together with JRuby, is a great language for cloud applications.

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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Introduction to JRuby
Location: D139/140
Tags: ruby, java, jruby
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
JRuby allows you to truly explore the potential of the Java virtual machine. This tutorial shows you concrete examples of why JRuby is the most powerful yet practical language for the JVM. It covers syntax, conventions, meta-programming, and other unique features of this elegant yet robust language. Read more.
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8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
The Rails 3 Ropes Course
Location: Portland 252
Tags: ruby, rails, ruby_on_rails, rails3
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs), Thomas Meeks (Envy Labs), Jacob Swanner (Envy Labs)
Average rating: ****.
(4.90, 10 ratings)
For this ropes course, members of the Envy Labs team will march you through the core concepts of Rails 3 while taking you through the development of a new Rails application. At the end of this course you will come away with a better understanding what’s new in Rails 3, and equally as important, what has changed since Rails 2. Read more.
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10:40am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Upgrading to Rails 3
Location: Portland 252
Tags: ruby, rails, rails3
Michael Bleigh (Intridea)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Rails has reached a degree of popularity among web developers, so there's a lot of Rails 2.x series code floating around. Of course, once Rails 3 is released, it's not like these apps will explode, ceasing to function in an any meaningful way, but it would be nice to get all the new hotness that this release brings. Read more.
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11:30am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Ruby and Mirah on App Engine
Location: Portland 252
Tags: cloud, ruby, java, google_app_engine, gae, appengine, duby, mirah
John Woodell (Google, Inc. ), Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Ruby apps can now be deployed to Google App Engine thanks to JRuby. New app instances spin-up on demand so there is no need to provision hardware but each new JRuby runtime can take several seconds. Mirah (formerly Duby) is a new language with Ruby-inspired syntax that compiles directly to Java bytecode. Duby is compelling for App Engine development because new instances can spin-up in a second. Read more.
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1:40pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
No Callbacks, No Threads: Async & Cooperative Web Servers with Ruby 1.9
Location: Portland 252
Tags: ruby, eventmachine, asynchronous, fibers, gil
Ilya Grigorik (igvita.com)
Average rating: ****.
(4.10, 10 ratings)
No threads, no callbacks, just pure IO scheduling with Ruby 1.9, Fibers, and Eventmachine. All the nice things we love about writing synchronous code, but completely asynchronous under the covers – the best of both worlds. A hands on look at the architecture, mechanics, and involved libraries towards creating the next generation Ruby web-servers. Read more.
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4:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Off the Beaten Path: Using Rails in the Enterprise
Location: Portland 252
Tags: rails, enterprise
Alex Rothenberg (-), Pat Shaughnessy (-)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Can you successfully write Rails applications in an Enterprise ecosystem full of existing databases, legacy applications and old technologies? Yes, but you may have to use Rails in a different way than usual. We'll show how we used standard Rails tools in just such an way. Read more.
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5:20pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Pegarus and Poison: Rubinius VM as a Multi-Language Platform
Location: Portland 252
Tags: ruby, rubinius, language_implementation, pegarus, potion, poison
Brian Ford (Engine Yard)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
In the past several years, PEGs (parsing expression grammars) have renewed interest in top-down parsing. Pegarus is an implementation on Rubinius of the LPEG pattern-matching tool for Lua. Poison is an implementation of _why's Potion programming language on the Rubinius VM using Pegarus. Read more.
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