Ruby on Rails shook up the web development community when it was released. It turned many standard practices of the day on their head and dramatically changed how we build web applications. Today, it’s still extremely popular in the world of the web due to these fundamental design principles.

Rails started new trends that didn’t end with that initial release. The community rethought web protocols all the way down the stack with smaller frameworks like Rack and Sinatra. Competitive frameworks also sprang up claiming to do much of what Rails did, only better.

In an exciting twist, the Rails team has acknowledged this growth. It moved to support Rack and continues to offer lightweight options for critical pieces of the application stack. The team also elected to merge in the code and ideas from Merb, one of the biggest competing frameworks in Ruby. All of this change culminates in the version 3 release of Rails, just in time for our conference.

We invite you to select a specific aspect of Rails 3 and propose a talk. Some suggestions include routing, database queries, rendering, sending emails, or any other area of rails that has been affected. You might also consider proposing a more general topic such as how to upgrade an existing Rails application to Rails 3.

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