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!
Ruby 2.0 is coming very soon. The specification is fixed, and the first stable release will be in production in several months. Now is the time to get prepared for 2.0 What new features are available in 2.0? How can our code, and lives be improved by these new features? Where are the ...
As of Rails 3.2, plugins are officially deprecated. They have been replaced by Rails Engines, a class of public methods for hooking into Rails applications. This session will explain how to write a Rails Engine from scratch or convert your existing plugin to an engine. It will also co...
Pivotal Labs starts new projects every week, and we want to have CI set up, building and tagging releases in a few hours, not a few days. For our Rails projects we buit a gem, Lobot, for setting up Jenkins instances on EC2 with Chef. I'll explain what actually goes on behind the scene...
Look at your Rails unit test suite. Now look at mine. Now look at yours again. Mine are sub-second. Yours aren't. Having a slow unit test suite can hinder an effective test-first or test-driven approach to development. As you add tests, the suite starts to slow down to the point where...
