RUBY

The Ruby language still has the power to surprise us. This theme is focused on Ruby syntax, gems and good development practices.

RAILS 3

Ruby on Rails is crossing a huge milestone. This theme is centered on topics such routing, metal, the new response system, and advanced queries.

NoSQL

Database choice affects application performance and scalability. This theme will focus on databases such as MognoDB, Riak, Redis, and Tokyo Cabinet.

SERVERS

Ruby is well suited for web based applications. This theme will focus on tools such as Rack, Unicorn, EventMachine, Resque and AWS.

A DIFFERENT CONFERENCE


This is a unique conference experience within the Ruby community. We have crafted a two-day event that will provide focused and up-to-date content and training in four of the most important areas of active development in the Ruby world. We are keeping the event a single-track format and strictly limiting attendance in order to assure that each attendee will have an optimal experience.

Conference sessions will be focused on a single theme and consist of four talks followed by a joint question, answer and discussion with all the speakers. Three hour training sessions related to each conference session will follow on the second day of the event. We believe that training the day after thematically related conference presentations will enhance the training quality by providing a context.

An important reason to attend this event is to have the opportunity to meet and interact with other ruby developers. Towards making the event as interactive as possible we have set aside a dedicated space for casual discussions, coding sessions, impromptu presentations, and an evening hackfest. Furthermore, we are hosting breakfast, lunch, and dinner to provide further opportunities for interaction and discussion.

KEYNOTES


Dave Thomas

Pragmatic Programmers

Jim Weirich

EdgeCase

NEWS


Conference Videos are Here! (Posted by Derrick Parkhurst on Jun 01, 2010 )

The videos from the conference are now available. If you attended Red Dirt RubyConf or ordered the videos, you will receive an email with the necessary information to view the videos.

In the meantime, watch the amazing keynote by Dave Thomas.

The Changelog is hosting the Hackfest at a secret location (Posted by Derrick Parkhurst on May 03, 2010 )

Come code with Wynn Netherland and other ruby programmers. Bring a problem that you are working on or help someone else tackle theirs. Meet and chat up the day's speakers. Enjoy drinks, snacks and music in this late night open session. The secret location will be announced at the Dave Thomas Keynote.

Thanks to Scout and Pragmatic Bookshelf for sponsoring! (Posted by Derrick Parkhurst on Apr 23, 2010 )

Scout is hosted server monitoring. We asked ourselves: what's the best part of open source monitoring solutions? The flexibility. What's the worst part? The setup and ongoing maintenance. So, we combined a flexible plugin system with a hosted service. The result: Scout is the easiest way to monitor your production environments. You can track all the major pieces of your infrastructure, get email and SMS alerts based on trends and thresholds, and drill down with charts and graphs.

The Pragmatic Programmers is an agile publishing and training company. We’re here because we want to improve the lives of developers. We do this by creating timely, practical books and working with the Pragmatic Studio to create the best developer training there is. The stuff we produce is timely and relevant because it is written by programmers for programmers.

SPONSORS


PARTNERS