Showing 32 videos tagged with rubyconf2009
On the Edge of Rails Performance
Earlier this year Gregg released a series of screencasts showing that Rails indeed ships with many of the tools that you need to scale your application. Since then more Rails applications have gone into production, additional techniques have been developed for optimizing performance, and more open source libraries have been published. In this talk he will first give a quick introduction for those just getting their feet wet with optimizing Rails applications. However, the majority of the talk... View More
Worst. Ideas. Ever.
This is a presentation of the Worst Ideas Ever. But this is not just another "worst practices" presentation with random code samples. This presentation is about ideas that were specially engineered to be bad. This is not about bad coding practices, but about projects that never should have seen the light of day.
"Bad" is not the correct term for the software being presented. "Abominations" is a more accurate description. "Software perversions" might be even more accurate.
Do not try to ... View More
Ruby Mutants
While developing JRuby, I have often created new toy languages to experiment with features or explore optimizations. Now my little Ruby mutants have started to develop their own lives. Duby is a static-typed language with Ruby syntax that compiles to raw JVM bytecode and performs as well as Java. UNNAMED is a dynamic language with syntax identical to Ruby, but using all JVM types and OpenJDK7's fast dynamic call support. Both are feeding into research to improve JRuby. And both are built on B... View More
Why "Enterprise Tools" Are Bad for the Enterprise
In the Ruby community, we have a tendency to sneer at things that are too "enterprisey." That tendency has been explained in some uncharitable ways, but mostly by claiming that we "just don't understand the enterprise."
But I think there's a different explanation. At Relevance, we've been doing some work with a large, enterprisey customer (Verizon Business). We've worked together to try to understand what enterprises can learn from smaller, more agile companies like Relevance. That work ha... View More
There is Such a Thing as Too Much Testing
I've worked at Object Mentor, ThoughtWorks, and Obtiva so I come from a test first background. However there are times and situations that call for less automated testing instead of more. Now that TDD and BDD have become near dogma in some circles, it's time to have an honest discussion about finding the appropriate level of testing for your team/project/code. Too much testing can lead to developer backlash, gridlock, morale problems, and poor velocity. On the other hand, lack of testing can ... View More
Mobile Applications with Ruby
Want to get into mobile app development with your Ruby skills? Or maybe you are already switching between Java, ObjectiveC and/or C++ to target applications to various popular mobile devices and you are thinking that there must be a better way...
In this talk, Sarah Allen will share her experience developing mobile applications using Ruby. She will highlight several emerging toolkits and provide an overview of today's mobile platforms and marketplace. Then she will dive into how to code a ... View More
Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes
Data writes are often the bottleneck for application scalability. What if you moved all of your data writes over to an asynchronous style? How could other services and programs in your application take advantage of those broadcast writes to build optimized structures designed for high performance synchronous reads? Asynchronous writes enable you to build additional event driven intelligence seamlessly into your application. We'll cover in gory detail how to route all of your data writes throu... View More
Writing 2D games for the OSX platform in Ruby
Are you a developer who would love to get into video games but get scared when he hears "OpenGL" or "rendering engines"? Or Maybe, you never considered writing a video game because you have heard Ruby was slow and you are not ready to give up on your favorite programming language. This talk is for you then. Together, we will build a very simple game using Ruby and the development tools offered by Apple. At the end of the presentation you will be ready to get started on your own project.
Clojure for Ruby Programmers
Ruby was once my favorite language for production code. Now Clojure is. Come find out why. You might not agree, but simply knowing a little Clojure will make your Ruby code better.
Matz Question + Answer
Q&A session with Matz, the creator of Ruby, at RubyConf 2009.
About RubyTu.be
RubyTu.be is a community driven collection of Ruby related videos and screencasts. Questions? Comments? Contact RubyTu.be via e-mail or click on the Feedback GetSatisfaction widget found on the other side of the page.Tags
Copyright 2009 Rubytu.be
