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
Intro-level JRuby is boring. Imagine the "use scaffolding to make a blog in 5 minutes" Rails movie we've all seen at least three times already, with all commands prefixed with "j" - that's about it. Instead, I want to talk about using JRuby in practical application development. When JRuby is a good choice, and when it is not? What problems does JRuby solve, and what problems does it create? How to design a JRuby app, and how to deploy it?
Unconference Discussion and/or a Hack-a-thon Project:
- CruiseControl.rb - simple and straightforward continuous integration tool written in (duh!) Ruby. Discussion, if you have questions or "it-sucks-because"-type stuff to say about it. Hack-a-thon, if anyone has a patch, or a patch idea that they are particularly passionate about :)
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
Secrets of a Successful Rails Deployment
Presenter: Vince Hodges and Paul Prescod, Kinzin
Our project has deployed several Rails apps with a cumulative user base of hundreds of thousands of users. We'll discuss some of the tools we use:
- Capistrano
- Mongrel (cluster)
- mod_proxy
- Load balancing
- Solaris (including services and ZFS)
Techniques for improving Rails reliability
Presenter: Kukuljevic-Pearce, Kinzin
We'll talk about how we use a combination of exception handling, Ruby blocks, Partial wrapping, load balancing and email notifications to make our application more resilient in the face of programming errors (in our code or third-party code).
Multithreaded image uploading and thumbnailing with Mongrel, Rack, ImageScience and Thread Queues
Presenter: Vince Hodges and Marc Gomez and Ian Suda, Kinzin
Although Rails is great in many ways, its lack of thread support makes it a poor choice for handling image uploads. While going through the relatively slow processes of parsing multipart messages and generating thumbnails, a Rails controller will typically lock out all other controllers in the same process. Instead, we use a suite of thread-friendly components: Mongrel, Rack and ImageScience.
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) on Rails
Presenter: Arash Sanieyan, Peerglobe Technology
Basically I want to share my interest in AIR/Rails with the audience. I am in the middle of developing a AIR/Rail application which I hope to finish by the event date.
Rails and Not-for-Profits (The DogOnRails Presentation)
Presenter: Joe Bowser, Nitobi Software/FreeTheNet Vancouver
Sharing my experiences using Rails to implement and maintain web applications for local not for profits. Will be talking both about the experiences with the old FreeGeek Database and where things went wrong for FreeGeek Vancouver, and more recently DogOnRails. This includes the challenges of code that works vs the Ruby Way of doing things. I'll point out where DogOnRails does things right, and where DogOnRails does things horribly wrong, and why in some cases it's forced to do these bad things in the name of protocol compatibility and playing nice with others.
Off the Rails - why your next project should be in Merb
Presenter: Brock Whitten Sintaxi
A primer on Merb and why the Future of Ruby is bright outside of Rails.
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