Sessions at Ruby Midwest 2011 about Ruby on Rails

Friday 4th November 2011

• Rails is the New Rails

  by Michael Bleigh

  The sweeping changes brought on by Rails 3 and 3.1 haven’t just make our existing development patterns easier, they have opened up the ability for us to build new patterns that accomplish more in a more beautiful and efficient way. In this session you will see how thinking about new features in a different light can lead to real innovation for your development practices. Examples include baking routing constraints into your models, application composition with Rack, truly modular design with the asset pipeline, and more.

  • Ruby on Rails

  At 10:30am to 11:00am, Friday 4th November

  Coverage slide deck

• ActiveRecord Anti-Patterns for Fun and Profit

  by Ethan Gunderson

  If you’re writing code that looks like User.all.reject(), you’re doing it wrong. Don’t worry though, we’ve all done it before. ActiveRecord makes it all too easy to introduce code that is far from performant, and after awhile, we tend to forget that underneath the pretty API, we’re still producing SQL. In this talk, we’ll peel back the API so that we can see some of the common mistakes I see when dealing with ActiveRecord statements, and more importantly, how you can fix them.

  • Active Record
  • Ruby on Rails

  At 11:00am to 11:30am, Friday 4th November

  Coverage slide deck

Saturday 5th November 2011

• Final Boss: Ruby/Rails in the Video Game Industry

  by David Czarnecki

  Did you know there are video games, both console and handheld, that talk directly to a Rails stack to provide functionality, both in-game and on the web? Did you know that there are Ruby/Rails services running 24/7/365 to process game data for over 40 million players around the world? You will learn about the code, methodologies and tools used to make all of this happen (and gain 5000 Rails XP)!

  • Game Development
  • Ruby on Rails

  At 3:45pm to 4:15pm, Saturday 5th November

  Coverage slide deck