Confreaks

Entities and their relations are the backbone of many Ruby applications – from trivial, one-off commandline utilities to full-blown social network websites. The good old relational databases, while showing extreme abilities in both adaptation an...

Ruby is ‘known to be slow’ – but what does that exactly mean, does it really matter, and – more importantly – what can we do about this?

This presentation, based on hands-on experience of using Ruby for scientific computations, shows ...