Next Event: Project Night @ thoughtbot
Boston Ruby Group
Use VCR to make your API Integration Tests more Deterministic
Learn how to improve your Rails app performance a thousand times with dead simple HTTP black magic
Learn some of the more powerful features of Git!
Patients Like Me's experience with Performable
Swipely's experience with metrics
Easily add tabbed navigation to any Rails app
Building a jQuery Mobile app with Rails
What you need to know about accepting payments over the web
Common Antipatterns seen in the Rails World
Pascal discusses his REST Home gem that is a simple wrapper for consuming web services
A few techniques for everyday hacking
Interact with NoSQL DBs in a different way than ORMs
Websockets seem fun and exciting, but it isn't immediately obvious how o use them in your existing Rails app. This talk will preview a simple API being developed to enable easy use of WebSockets
Resque is a solid, performant background job processor. But it is very young. Here are some of the ways we enhanced it to move it into our production environment.
Many Rails apps these days strive to be RESTful. But as complexity builds, exceptions are made, which can lead to a slippery slode toward fat controllers and complicated routing. We will try to add some clarity and look at RES fundamentals.
HTML and CSS are ubiquitous on the web, but they were mostly created in a vacuum. Haml, Sass, and Compass provide helpful abstractions and utilities to remove some of the repetition and noise in your code for rapid development and easier maintenance. We'll discuss the basics and general syntax, then dive into some code to see how it really works.
"memcached on steroids" or something more jaron filled. The biggest selling point of Redis is that as programmers we have to bend our data into a table or document to save it, but with Redis we can persist data as we visualize it. We'll go over the basics of Redis, how to use it with your Ruby applications, and some real use cases.
This talk will include an overview of some examples of how to play with Semantic Data in Ruby.
Serve data to your iPhone apps with Rails
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Customizing cloud deployment using Chef at Engineyard
Riak is the hot new "NoSQL" database from Basho that scales like the web using 100% organic free-range Unicorns. ActiveModel is the hot new framework in Rails 3 that extracts the best parts of ActiveRecord. Put them together and you've got Ripple, the fully-loaded Ruby client and modeling library for Riak.
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PostgreSQL is a secure, scalable and open database system. In this talk we'll go through installatoin options, configuration, features, scalability and tools to help you take control over the "most advanced open source database".