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Designing RESTful Rails Applications

In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Obie Fernandez explains REST and gives practical tips on how to use Rails' REST features to write RESTful applications.

Obie Fernandez
on Jul 31, 2008

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Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby

In this talk from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: OpenID (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).

Justin Gehtland
on Jun 28, 2008

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Mingle: Building a Rails-Based Product

Neal Ford talks about Mingle, Thoughtworks Studios' project management software. Besides Mingle's features, Neal also talks about the experience of building Mingle on JRuby.

Neal Ford
on Jun 06, 2008

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Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby

Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages - a type of Domain Specific Languages geared towards being readable by domain experts.

Jay Fields
on May 08, 2008

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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Charles Nutter discusses JRuby features, the JRuby compiler, calling between Java and JRuby, Swing and JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, TDD and BDD.

Charles Nutter
on Apr 18, 2008

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The Power of Javascript

Glenn Vanderburg makes the case for Javascript, a language long overlooked. This presentation from JAOO 2007 shows the powerful language features of Javascript, and the many places it's used.

Glenn Vanderburg
on Mar 29, 2008

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Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages

Rich Kilmer explains Domain Specific Languages - the difference between internal and external DSLs, implicit vs. explicit styles and the declarative vs. imperative style of Ruby DSLs.

Rick Kilmer
on Feb 22, 2008

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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics

Zed Shaw talks about Mongrel and its impact. For companies, the talk contains valuable information about Dos/Don'ts when interacting with open source teams.

Zed Shaw
on Feb 03, 2008

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Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out

James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site's performance high. Tips include how to serve up pages faster, caching, hosting companies, and when to use SQL instead of ActiveRecord.

James Cox
on Jan 08, 2008

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MetaProgramming - Extending Ruby for Fun and Profit

MetaProgramming with Ruby presentation by Dave Thomas (PragDave) - learn to write programs that write code with Ruby, and how Ruby on Rails uses these techniques.

Dave Thomas
on Dec 07, 2007

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Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again

Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview of the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries.

Thomas Fuchs
on Oct 25, 2007

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Applying Agile to Ruby

We discuss how to keep productivity while reducing the risk that chaos often brings, we examine key agile practices that when applied to Ruby retain productivity, improve the quality of the code

Fred George
on Aug 02, 2007

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