Rails Underground '09 takes place on 24-25th July in London at the Royal National Hotel.This event will encompass cutting-edge subjects, the latest developments and the considerable benefits of the Rails platform.

We already have an exciting line-up, including:

• Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard
• Jason Hoffman, CTO, Joyent
  
• Dr Nic Williams, Mocra
  
• Geoffey Grosenbach, Peepcode, Nuby on Rails
• Maik Schmidt, author of Enterprise Integration and Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
  
• David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, will also be available for a videoconference Q&A session!

To view a full list of speakers and sessions please click here.
New to Rails?
Ruby and Rails are both fantastic tools for producing better quality code: faster, cheaper, more readable and more maintainable. The community is growing and new technologies (like Maglev, IronRuby & JRuby and the upcoming features in Rails 3) are enriching the Ruby world every day. If you don't know about Ruby and Rails yet, now is the time to find out more.

A Rails Pro?
I'm sure you agree that 2009 has already been a great year for Rails. There have been lots of exciting news and developments in the last few weeks, the community is vibrant and enthusiastic and, with more eagerly anticipated updates on the way, there's never been a better time to get more involved or hone your techniques. Come along and find out more; or come along and tell us what you know.
Get Involved
We hope this will be also be a great opportunity to meet other Rails developers, IT professionals and enthusiasts, do a bit of networking, pitch your ideas and meet more members of the community.

If you have any suggestions, or ideas for talks, please contact the organisers at conference@rails-underground.com or leave a comment or join the google group. Otherwise, please subscribe to our news feed, and keep in touch!

Tickets and Special Skills Matter Community Discount

Tickets normally cost £240, but Skills Matter has negotiated a special reduced rate of just £200 for its community members so book online now to save £40 from the ticket price!

Friday 24th July 2009

Track 1 RAILS IS A HAMMER Fred George : Fred George - Rails is a Hammer (Keynote) more...     WORKING OUTSIDE-IN WITH CUCUMBER Joseph Wilk: Cucumber is a BDD tool that can execute plain-text documents as automated functional tests through Ruby mappings. It allows you to build up a custom domain language to talk about your applications behaviour that non-technical users can understand and write. We'll look at working outside-in with Cucumber and the importance of focusing on customer value. Look at how Cucumber fits into the testing workflow, how it compliments Behaviour Driven Development and give practical examples/tips. more...     LAUNCHING RUBY ON RAILS PROJECTS Robby Russell : Robby Russell - Launching Ruby on Rails Projects more...     BLOOD, SWEAT AND RAILS Obie Fernandez : Obie Fernandez - Blood, Sweat and Rails more...     JRUBY AND RAILS Charles Nutter: Charles Nutter - JRuby and Rails more...     AGILE DEPLOYMENT WITH RUBY Gwyn Morfey : Gwyn Morfey - Agile Deployment with Ruby more...     THE INVOICING GEM Martin Kleppmann: Martin Kleppmann - The Invoicing Gem; Sales and Payments in your App more...     GO TEST IT Martin Kleppmann: Martin Kleppmann - Go Test It more...     RAILS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS Elise Huard: What is the internet of things, and how can the Rails community move into that area? Internet availability is increasingly common - many places offer WIFI, and data plans for mobile users become more and more affordable. more...     HEADLESS TESTING Matt Southerden: Matt Southerden - Headless Testing more...     DUBY AND JUBY LANGUAGES Charles Nutter: Charles Nutter - Duby and Juby Languages more...     SHARDING YOUR WAY TO SIMPLICITY Nic Williams : Dr Nic Williams - Sharding Your Way to Simplicity more...     MONETA (LIGHTNING TALK) Yehuda Katz : Yehuda Katz - Moneta (Lightning Talk) more...     TYING UNIT TESTS TOGETHER WITH DATA Paul Wilson: Paul Wilson - Tying Unit Tests Together with Data more...     RHODES AND PHONEGAP Makoto Inoue: Makoto Inoue - Rhodes and PhoneGap more...     RACK SUPPORT Ben Scofield : Ben Scofield - And the Greatest of These is ... Rack Support more...     INTERFACES AND THE FUTURE OF RUBY Yehuda Katz : Yehuda Katz - Interfaces and the Future of Ruby (Keynote more...     RIDING RABBITS AND TRADING GEMS Paolo Negri : In this talk, Paolo Negri explains how to leverage distributed and concurrent programming using RabbitMQ and EventMachine, divide & conquer, and keep all the pieces together. more...     SPHINX, BEYOND THE BASICS Pat Allan : Pat Allan - Sphinx, Beyond the Basics more...     FROM THE KEYBOARD TO THE COMMUNITY Pat Allan : Pat Allan - From the Keyboard to the Community more...     GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF SOFTWARE Jim Weirich: Jim Weirich - Grand Unified Theory of Software more...     PRODUCTIVE RAILS DEVELOPMENT AND CLIENT Paul Campbell : Paul Campbell - Productive Rails Development and Client Happiness more...     RAILS UNDERGROUND FINAL Mark Coleman: Mark Coleman - Rails Underground Final more...     WELCOME TO RAILS UNDERGROUND Mark Coleman: Mark Coleman - Welcome to Rails Underground more...     BBD WITH CUCUMBER AND RSPEC Chris Parsons: Chris Parsons - BBD with Cucumber and RSpec more...     REFACTORING WITH FIRE : Refactoring with Fire - Gwyn Morfey more...     WORKING WITH LEGACY RAILS APPS : Working with Legacy Rails Apps more...     GIT BASICS : Git Basics - Ariejan de Vroom more...     SNEAKING RUBY & RAILS INTO BIG COMPANIES : Sneaking Ruby & Rails Into Big Companies more...     SPENDING MORE TIME ON THE COUCH : Spending more time on the couch more...     BRINGING THE WEB TO YOUR DESKTOP WITH MA : Bringing the Web to Your Desktop with MacRuby - Geoffrey Grosenbach more...     RAILS I18N FROM THE TRENCHES : Rails I18n From The Trenches - Clemens Kof more...     MOBILIZE YOUR RAILS APPLICATION : Mobilize Your Rails Application - Brendan G Lim more...     BEHAVIOUR DRIVEN MONITORING WITH CUCUMBE : Behaviour driven monitoring with cucumber-nagios - Lindsay Holmwood more...     THE RUBY GUIDE TO *NIX PLUMBING : The Ruby Guide to *nix Plumbing more...     PANEL Q+A : Panel Q+A more...     HOW TO HOST A RAILS CONFERENCE Mark Coleman: How to host a Rails Conference more...     EXT JS WITH RAILS - STEFFEN HILLER : Ext JS with Rails - Steffen Hiller more...     JAVASCRIPT UNIT TESTS IN RAILS : Dr Nic spoke about Dead simple JavaScript Unit Tests in Rails with Blue Ridge and Screw.Unit more...

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	Software Craftsmanship Ideas & Eden Chris Parsons : 10th Mar 2010
	Software Craftsmanship Terminology Corey Haines : 10th Mar 2010
	PrimeFaces: Next Generation JSF Componen Cagatay Civici : 3rd Mar 2010
	Integrating JSF with Spring Web Flow Karl Widmer : 3rd Mar 2010
	Flex and Spring Integration Rick Evans : 17th Feb 2010
	Hydra and Hypermedia Ian Robinson : 11th Feb 2010
	Rails & iPhone Integration Paul Ardeleanu : 10th Feb 2010
	Bowline: A Ruby GUI Framework Alex MacCaw : 10th Feb 2010
	Architecture of Birdpie, a Twitter Appli Anup Narkhede : 10th Feb 2010
	Fibers in Ruby 1.9 Murray Steele : 10th Feb 2010
	Introduction Murray Steele : 10th Feb 2010
	Show Off, a Ruby-Based HTML Presentation Joel Chippindale : 10th Feb 2010
	Decorating the Domain Brent Snook : 10th Feb 2010
	Using Websockets with EventMachine Ismael Celis : 10th Feb 2010