Schedule

Monday, November 17: Pre-Conference Workshops
Time Session Speaker
9:00AM - 12:30PM Behavior Driven Development with RSpec Pat Maddox
1:30PM - 5:00PM Introduction to Ruby for Experienced Developers Hal Fulton
1:30PM - 5:00PM Fluent In Ruby: Getting Beyond The Basics Russ Olsen
Tuesday, November 18
Time Session Speaker
8:00AM - 9:00AM Continental Breakfast and Conference Registration  
9:00AM - 10:00AM Conference Welcome and Chairman's Address Obie Fernandez
10:10AM - 10:40AM Case Study: Riding Rails at The New York Times Ben Koski
10:50AM - 11:20AM Ruby and the Java Virtual Machine Thomas Enebo
11:20AM - 11:40PM Break  
11:40AM - 12:10PM Introduction to Mongrel Matt Pelletier
12:20PM - 12:50PM Case Study: The Many Facets of Ruby at YELLOWPAGES.COM Coby Randquist
12:50PM - 2:20PM Birds of a Feather Lunch  
2:20PM - 2:50PM Demystifying Rails Plugin Development Nick Plante
3:00PM - 3:30PM Four Years of Ruby Deployment Ezra Zygmuntowicz
3:40PM - 4:10PM Case Study: Nature Network Stays Agile in the Enterprise Matt Jankowski
Jared Carroll
4:20PM - 4:50PM Refactoring Complex Domains in Ruby and Rails Shane Harvie
5:00PM - 6:00PM Panel: Testing Methodologies Obie Fernandez, Moderator
Bryan Liles
Pat Maddox
Sandi Metz
Tammer Saleh
6:00PM - 7:30PM Welcome Reception in the Product Showcase
7:30PM - 9:30PM Lightning Round
 
Wednesday, November 19
Time Session Speaker
8:00AM - 9:00AM Continental Breakfast  
9:15AM - 10:00AM Beyond the Mountains of Madness with Ruby Giles Bowkett
10:10AM - 10:40AM Payment Processing with Active Merchant Cody Fauser
10:50AM - 11:20AM Rock Solid Ruby Deployment Philippe Hanrigou
11:20AM - 11:40PM Break  
11:40AM - 12:10PM Messaging with Ruby and Rails Blaine Cook
12:20PM - 12:50PM Rails Scales! How? Matt Pelletier
12:50PM - 2:50PM Lunch Served in the Product Showcase  
2:50PM - 3:20PM Surviving as a Windows-based Ruby and Rails Developer David Berube
3:30PM - 4:00PM Testing as Communication: Real-World Techniques Jon Larkowski
4:10PM - 4:40PM Rails AntiPatterns Chad Pytel
Tammer Saleh
4:50PM - 5:20PM Battle Royale: Merb's Role in the MVC Holy Wars Foy Savas
5:30PM - 6:00PM Case Study: Sinful Ruby at Sermo Will Koffel
6:00PM - 7:30PM Taste of the North End: Reception in the Product Showcase  
7:30PM Dinner with a Stranger
 
Thursday, November 20
Time Session Speaker
8:00AM - 9:15AM Breakfast with a Speaker  
9:30AM - 10:20AM Ruby: Fragile or Agile? Josh Susser
10:30AM - 11:00AM RESTful Possibilities – REST in Rails and Beyond James Golick
11:10AM - 11:40AM Using Berkeley DB and Ruby with Large Data Sets Matt Bauer
11:50AM - 12:20PM Case Study: Building the Insoshi Social Network Michael Hartl
12:30PM - 1:00PM Conference Wrap Up: Last Chance Panel