Do you like building real time systems? Do you like salami? Then you will enjoy this talk! We're going to learn the process for curing meats at home, along with integrating the meat curing process with real time systems and Rails 4. Challenges of meat curing, and Rails interna...
What's new in Rails 4? How does Rails 4 fit in to the future of web development? Why are cats so important to the development of Ruby and Rails? All these questions and more will be answered if you attend this talk. Seats are limited, so act now!
Contributing to Open Source can be a fun and rewarding experience. Whether you’ve run in to bugs that need to be fixed, or you would just like to give back to the community, this talk will be a practical guide to getting involved in the world of Open Source Software. Topics wi...
Panel discussion with Rails Core team members lead by Evan Phoenix.
There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or payment for their work.
They create educational content, develop plugins & gems, contribute to open source projects, and even put on events which help educate...
When he isn't ruining people's lives by writing software like phuby, enterprise, and neversaydie, Aaron can be found writing slightly more useful software like nokogiri. To keep up his Gameboy Lifestyle, Aaron spends his weekdays writing high quality software for ATTi. Be sure...
In this presentation, we'll be looking at some of the innards of Rails. Column caching strategies, database interaction, object design, and view rendering will be discussed. We'll form links from the back end to the front, looking at the meat of the system. We'll use the infor...
The Fabulous Five are back! Last year we blew your mind. This year we will blow your heart. Join us as we put on our robes and wizard hats and enchant you with witty banter, amusing anecdotes and live Q&A. We'll cover topics ranging from "best ruby interpreter" to "best ruby i...
What's a Ruby conference without lightning talks? And more importantly, who would want to find out?
Aaron Patterson is one of the nicest and funniest people that I (Shane) know. His handle on the internets is Tenderlove, his website is tenderlovemaking.com. He takes ridiculous photos of himself for his slides when he gives presentations at conferences — in spandex, bikinis...
( to the tune of the Ultraman theme song:
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Ultraman.html )
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
Ruby programming guy
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
he's as awesome as _why
Seattle is his home
he's a Ruby brigadier
...got a gr...
This session is a panel featuring some of today's brightest -- and most opinionated -- Ruby personalities, moderated by Rein Henrichs. Topics up for debate include coding style, various patterns and anti-patterns (depending on who you ask), the state of the Ruby community, and...
In this talk, we'll take a look at different tips and tricks for writing speedy code in Ruby. We'll look at techniques for analyzing our Ruby code to find the slow spots, and ways we can speed up those hot spots. MRI's VM will be analyzed in order to understand how to take max...
Pioneering in the Wild West of software can be scary, not to mention deadly. How can you use this fear to best the lurking dangers out there?
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When attempting to solve our latest programming conundrum, we typically reach for the latest Ruby Gem that solves the problem for us. Oftentimes in our search for a solution, we neglect to look through some of the great libraries that come shipped with Ruby. In this talk we'll...
Seattle.rb Rocks would cover a number of side projects developed by Seattle.rb members in a lightning-talk-like format. Individual presentations would run for roughly ten minutes, and at least the following individual presentations would be given: Phil Hagelberg will talk abou...

















