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SD Ruby - Episode 055: MySQL, Postgres, and Rails

Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything. Bonus content: download the slides from th... View More

SD Ruby - Episode 059: Rails Case Study

Guyren Howe is doing something a little different with his current project, trying to make it more user-modifiable and user friendly than your average intraweb application, and removing some of the redundancy in regular Rails code. The current state of the project will be discussed, along with whether the interesting parts should be open sourced.
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SD Ruby - Episode 060: Migrating Legacy Data

Let’s face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It’s slow, error prone, and a ton of work. What if you could import old data into a new app before it’s finished? Normalize fields? Clean up old data? And migrate often? Patrick Crowley shows the way. Bonus content: http://www.slideshare.net/moko... View More
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SD Ruby - Episode 062: Track Magic

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser.

SD Ruby - Episode 063: Earning an "A" in YSlow

Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn’t deploy your site without. He’ll also go over some sample implementations for a typical Rails app, including a demo of how to serve your public assets from Amazon’s new CloudFront View More

Jake Howerton - Into the Heart of Darkness: Rails Anti-Patterns

Everybody has hopefully heard the term “code rot”. This talk will be one part guided tour and one part exposé on the phenomenon within Rails projects. Since Rails’ release in July 2004, it has served as a beacon of light for many developers, but there is a nasty underbelly to this story. With the growth of its popularity, these problems have become widespread enough to foster an entire ‘Rails Audit’ and ‘Rails Rescue’ microindustry. We have all been guilty of writing terrible code or making b... View More

Yehuda Katz: The Great Rails Refactor

The third edition of Rails will see an overhaul of the framework to merge the philosophies and features of the Merb framework into Rails. Among other things, that includes providing support for ORMs like DataMapper, Sequel (and even Hibernate!) and for JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Dojo. It will define an explicit public API for users and plugins, backed up by a test suite. It will have loads of performance enhancements, with the hope that Rails3 can be as performant as Merb is current... View More

rails.merge!(merb)

Discussion about the Rails 3 and Merb merge.

Guy Naor: Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails

Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails With the move to web based applications, the need to create multi-tenant applications grows all the time. The majority of the business applications require some form of multi-tenancy to serve multiple clients off of a single hosted application. There are many ways to provide that - from simple data differentiation using an account_id field, all the way to separate DBs per client. Each solution has its pros and cons and fits different needs. In this ... View More

Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer, The Rails Envy Guys: Innovation in Rails

In order to stay competitive, every Rails developer should keep up to date with the latest tools to write better ruby code and produce better websites. In this talk the Rails Envy guys will attempt to sum up a year of Rails innovation in 60 minutes, covering 20 of the most useful, ingenious, and innovative new developments. Any Rails developer is bound to pickup at least 5 new tools for their tool-belt. About Gregg & Jason Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer can be heard every week on the Rail... View More