Add an eventSessions at OSCON 2011 about Ruby on Rails in Oregon Convention Center
Monday 25th July 2011
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Intro to Rails (AKA. Rails for Zombies)
by Nick Walsh, Eric Allam, Caike Souza, Jason VanLue, Tyler Hunt and Gregg Pollack
This is an introductory course which teaches the basics of web application development using the Ruby language with the most recent release of the Ruby on Rails framework. If you've never tried Rails or you've only "played with it" at home, then this tutorial is for you.
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Rails Best Practices
by Jason VanLue, Caike Souza, Nick Walsh, Gregg Pollack, Tyler Hunt and Eric Allam
As the Rails community has matured several conventions have emerged, in the form of best practices. In this 5 part lab, we will walk through the most common of these practices and get some hands on experience refactoring Rails.
Wednesday 27th July 2011
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REALLY Scaling a Rails Application
Ruby on Rails is a great framework for quickly building applications, but what happens when you are wildly successful and need to scale WAY up? This talk is a case study in the evolution of our Rails application from a monolithic "does everything" systems running on a hosted server to a service-oriented system running in the cloud.
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Upgrading and Improving Legacy Ruby on Rails Applications
Smart developers have been using Ruby on Rails to build web applications for over 5 years. Cutting-edge projects have aged into legacy apps. Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9 offer new features that are guaranteed to take the squeak out of that old wheel and grease the tracks of new development. We're going to walk through upgrading real projects and work together to solve issues the audience has found.