Ruby East 2007
September 22, 2007 by Mark Marucot · Leave a Comment
Chariot Solutions is proud to be able to bring some of the top speakers in the Ruby and Rails communities to our region. This conference is not just for those who already know and love Ruby. It also features an exceptional lineup for beginners, including Jeremy McAnally’s “Humble Little Ruby Talk” and an introductory Rails talk by Amy Hoy. If you have colleagues or friends who are just getting started with Ruby or who are have not gotten around to looking into Ruby yet — this is an ideal conference to bring them to. Ruby East will be a valuable experience for anyone who wants to learn more about Rails or Ruby.
9:00am - 10:00am
Keynote: Hal Fulton - The Future of Ruby
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Keynote: Rails Rumble
Track 1
- 10:15am - 11:15am
Jeremy McAnally - The Humble Little Ruby Talk - 11:30am - 12:30pm
Amy Hoy - How Rails Works Inside & Out - 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Lunch - 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Desi McAdam - A Tour of Rails Testing - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Giles Bowkett - How to Kick Ass with IRB - 3:45pm - 4:45pm
David Black - Per-Object Behavior in Ruby
Track 2
- 10:15am - 11:15am
Andrea O.K. Wright - High Art on Top of Low-Level APIs: Building Games with Ruby - 11:30am - 12:30pm
Ezra Zygmuntowicz - Ruby Performance: Tips, Tricks and Hacks - 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Lunch - 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Gregory Brown & Michael Milner - Ruby Reports, Beyond 1.0 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Obie Fernandez - Rails and ActiveRecord - 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Mike Magino - Using Testing and Mocking to Improve your Code
Optimizing Rails on Oracle
September 19, 2007 by Mark Marucot · Leave a Comment
Luca Mearelli of Spazidigitali, published an article in Oracle Technology Network about Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle . As you know Ruby has been the chosen as one of the the best programming language by Amazon Unspun, the Big 3 Search Engines and by CPU Benchmarks.
Rails on Oracle comes out as a good performer, but my only regret is that i did not have time to investigate (and maybe contribute back to the community) on adding proper bind variables support to ActiveRecord, which would have been the definitive optimization, but I see that the subject is being actively discussed on the core developers ML, so we may get there soon.



