After a quick serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, stuff we learned during the afternoon and stuff we would like to hear more about. You will not only be able to ask their questions to the speakers of the expert talks, but are also...

Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend

Featuring Andrew Chalkley

Andrew Chalkley will give a talk on Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend. If you have any questions or topics you would like to see covered in Andrew's talk or discussed at the ParkBench Panel discussion, tweet them using tag #rorexchange and we'll try to feature these! More...

The Anatomy of Ruby I18n

Featuring Sven Fuchs

Sven Fuchs is the author of the I18n gem which is shipped with Rails to provide internationalization support. The gem is built in a modular way to make it easy for you to pick optional and add your own features. In this talk we will go over the architecture of the I18n gem and the advanced,...

Databases - have it your way

Featuring Frederick Cheung

If you've used Rails, it's a safe bet to say that you've used Active Record. Active Record isn't the only ruby tool out there for manipulating your database though, and Rails 3 will play nicer than ever with other ORM libraries. Find out the similarities between some of the common...

Rails Choices

Featuring David A. Black

Although well known as opinionated software, Rails does let you choose among different possible ways to accomplish lots of the things you have to do: templating, session storage, application vs. database-level validations... As Rails moves towards version 3, choice and modularity are increasing....

Non-Relational Databases and World Domination

Featuring Jason Davies

Apparently NoSQL is all the rage these days, but what does it really mean and what technologies are out there? When to use a non-relational database? How to decide which one to use to achieve world domination? How do I use CouchDB with Ruby on Rails? I'll explore all of these questions and...

Enterprise Rails Hosting

Featuring Julian Fischer

Setting up a single virtual oder dedicated server is easy but what to do when more and more people bring in more and more load?

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...

Fred George - Rails is a Hammer (Keynote)

Featuring Fred George

Fred George - Rails is a Hammer (Keynote)

Chris Parsons - BBD with Cucumber and RSpec

Featuring Chris Parsons

Chris Parsons - BBD with Cucumber and RSpec