THURSDAY, MAY 6th
  • 7:30 AM

BREAKFAST
Rooms 18
Convention Center

Pastries, breakfast breads and coffee.

  • 8:30 AM

KEYNOTE
Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

(Parenthetically Speaking)

Jim Weirich

EdgeCase

  • 9:30 AM


Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

RUBY

Ruby and the Unix Philosophy

Matt Yoho

Hashrocket

Sinatra: Microapps Running on Rack

Tim Gourley

Engine Yard

Design and Modularity in Ruby

Glenn Vanderburg

Relevance, Inc.

  • 11:15 AM


Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

RAILS 3

Bundler: Painless Dependency Management

André Arko

Engine Yard

With a Mighty Hammer

Ben Scofield

Viget Labs

  • 1 PM

LUNCH - Executive Bento Plate
Room 18
Convention Center

Chilled Grilled Salmon Filet on a marinated vegetable salad
Garden greens with Honey Mustard and Diced Chicken Breast
Couscous with Toasted Almonds
Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Sauce

  • 2:00 PM


Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

NoSQL

Scaling with Cassandra

Ryan King

Twitter

Data Driven Applications with Ruby and MongoDB

Jim Mulholland & John Taber

Squeejee (Jim) Tiger Nassau, Inc (John)

CouchDB, Ruby, and You

Will Leinweber

merge.fm

Plain Old Tokyo Storage

Jeremy Hinegardner

Chief Architect, Collective Intellect

  • 3:45 PM


Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

SERVERS

JRuby on Google App Engine

John Woodell

Google

Rumble in the Jungle...

Fernand Galiana

liquidrail llc

Redis To The Resque

Jade Meskill

Integrum Technologies

The Rise of DevOps

Corey Donohoe

Teamsters

  • 5:30 PM

BREAK

  • 6:00 PM

DINNER - Southwestern Grill Buffet
Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

Tortilla Soup with Green Onions and Cheddar Cheese
Jicama and Apple Slaw
Three Bean Salad with Lime, Cumin and Cilantro Vinaigrette
Fresh Corn with Lime and chili butter
Beef Fajitas with sautéed onions and peppers.
Chipotle Pulled Pork

  • 7:00 PM

Ruby5 Podcast
Room 21
Convention Center

Gregg Pollack, EnvyLabs

Live recording of the Ruby5 Podcast.

  • 8:00 PM

KEYNOTE
Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

Living here in hell—Ruby and the search for perfection

Dave Thomas

The Pragmatic Programmers

  • 9:00 PM

HACKFEST
Secret Location

The Changelog Show will be hosting a great hackfest! 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.

FRIDAY, MAY 7th
  • 8:00 AM

BREAKFAST
Rooms 19 and 20
Convention Center

Pastries, breakfast breads and coffee.

  • 9:00 AM

The Ruby Your Mother Warned You About

TRAINING

James Edward Gray II and
Glenn Vanderburg

Room 19, Convention Center

In this training, you will get to see several examples of scary Ruby code. The samples will be inspired by code we have actually seen in the wild. We will Rubyify the code, examine what that means and how it is an improvement, and then discuss guidelines to keep our code from scaring our mom.

The Rails 3 Ropes Course

TRAINING

Gregg Pollack

Room 20, Convention Center

For this ropes course, members of the Envy Labs team will march you through the core concepts of Rails 3 while taking you through the development of a new Rails application. At the end of this course you will come away with a better understanding what’s new in Rails 3, and equally as important, what has changed since Rails 2.

  • 12:00 PM

LUNCH
Room 18
Convention Center

Sage and Romano Crusted Chicken Smoked tomato cream sauce, boursin mashed potatoes and season’s freshest vegetables

  • 1:00 PM

Introduction to Riak

TRAINING

Sean Cribbs

Room 19, Convention Center

The team from Basho will lead you through the ins and outs of Riak, a document-oriented database. Riak combines a decentralized key-value store, a flexible map/reduce engine, and a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface to provide a database ideally suited for Web applications.

Living Among the Clouds

TRAINING

Jim Mulholland and
Jason Derrett

Room 20, Convention Center

The team from Squeejee will walk you through how to deploy apps to Heroku, EngineYard, and Amazon EC2 and cover some pros and cons of each. This will be an interactive class where we deploy the same app to different servers and compare the results.

  • 4:00 PM

Red Dirt Ruby Social Hour

Common Area Convention Center

Join us for one last get together.