RubyCampVancouver 2008 is presented by the Vancouver Ruby/Rails User Group, RailsAdvance and Ruboss
| Date | Saturday, January 26, 2008 |
| Time | 9:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location | WorkSpace, (21 Water St, Vancouver) |
| Attendence | Expected between 50-100 Rubyists |
RubyCampVancouver is a free one-day Ruby (un)conference run on two tracks: A conference-style track with "classic" talks on Ruby topics and an unconference-style track with more informal hack-a-thons, hands-on project demos, ad-hoc coding sprints, lightning talks, and more.
See also: BarCampVancouver, MobileCampVancouver, FacebookCampVancouver
Vancouver Ruby/Rails Mailing List/Forum - Official RubyCamp Site
You're invited to join the Vancouver Ruby/Rails Mailing List/Forum to stay up-to-date on the latest news about Vancouver's 1st RubyCamp and stop at the Official RubyCamp event site.
Questions? Send a posting to the Vancouver Ruby/Rails mailing list/forum.
Attendees
Please, sign-up on the Vancouver Ruby/Rails User Group event page if you plan to attend.
Talks & Topic Ideas, Coding Sprints & Hack-a-thons
Rubyize This!
Presenter: Scott Patten
Rubyize This! was invented by François Lamontagne of Ruby Fleebie. The idea is that someone puts up a chunk of code that is written in Ruby, but in a not very Rubyish way. Then, everyone in the audience gets to Rubyize it!
I'll present some ugly sample code, and the audience will submit their refactorings to Refactor My Code. When everyone is done, you get to present your Rubyization.
Feel free to bring your own ugly sample code for us to work on too.
Should be fun for all, novice Rubyist to expert!
Introduction to Ruby-Generated JavaScript (RJS)
Presenter: Brian LeRoux, Nitobi Software
Walkthrough of RJS and JavaScript techniques with Rails 2.0
Wrangling Large Data Sets with Rails and JavaScript
Presenter: Eric Promislow, ActiveState
Coding like it's 1982: wrangling large data sets with Rails and
JavaScript without making your users suffer.
Hands-on Hack-a-thon Project:
- How to add new tools for Ruby on Rails to the (Open)Komodo Dynamic Language IDE using JavaScript.
Presenter: Jim Pick
TrimPath Junction is a clone of Rails written in Javascript. That means that your applications can run on the server and/or the client. I'll demonstrate a trivial application written using Javascript and Trimpath, and compare it to a Ruby on Rails app.
Hands-on Hack-a-thon Project:
JRuby (Ruby on Java)
Presenter: Alexey Verkhovsky, ThoughtWorks
Can be intro-level, can be close to the metal details on
perfomance and production deployment. TBA
Hands-on Hack-a-thon, Unconference Discussions:
- CruiseControl.rb
- Oracle Mix which is a Rails app that we (ThoughtWorks) built for Oracle. It's not an interesting application, as such, but interesting client, deadline and political constraints. Enterprise stuff, so to say... and how Ruby/Rails proves an awesome choice in the face of it all. :)
Hosting Options, Tips and Tricks for Scaling Ruby on Rails Facebook Apps
Presenter: Mark Mayo, Joyent
Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2
Presenter: Peter Armstrong, Ruboss
Presenter: Kurt Cagle
An overview about the changes that are being proposed for ECMAScript 4.0 (and some of the controversies there), the current state of affairs of JavaScript in Firefox 3.0 (discussing such things as iterators and generators) and a brief overview of E4X and how it fits into the broader JavaScript landscape.
General Systems Architecture (GSA) - A Modeling System in Ruby
Presenter: David Richards
What's GSA?
- A logic engine for mapping system dynamics
- An ORM to store and lookup model information (probably DataMapper, though I may resort back to ActiveRecord)
- Access to classifiers. I am working with Sergio in London to add these to ai4r (another RubyForge project) and then access them from within the framework. Right now there are Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and a Genetic Algorithm. I'm reviewing and bringing in Carl Youngblood's sbn for Bayes classification. Then, there are some clustering classifiers we'll be working on, and I may try and bring Reconstructability Analysis into the mix as well. Basically, we're putting a lot of tools into ai4r for general use, and then the GSA will put them into a more directed framework.
- Various import and export options
- Configuration to move the processing to Amazon's Web Services
This may be interesting to Rubyists because:
- Analytics can solve a lot of regular problems in business and science
- I've been able to play a lot with Ruby in writing my own DSL so far
- I may have some RSpec lessons that are kind of cool
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Organizers
Sponsors
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