Schedule

04-05 April 2008: Register

Thursday, 3 April

09:00 Ruby Intro

Bruce Williams

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 Rails Intro

Craig Webster

12:30 - 13:00 Break
13:00 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby

Jim Weirich

14:15 - 15:45 Test Driving Rails

Joe O'Brien

16:00 - 17:00 Higher-order Ruby

Giles Bowkett

Friday, 4 April

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
09:00 Keynote

Michael Koziarski

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee
10:15 - 11:00
Story Driven Development: The Next Generation of Rails Functional Testing

Bryan Helmkamp

Pushing Rails onto our Stack: a system integration study

Richie McMahon & Maria Gutierrez

11:15 - 12:00
Regression Therapy - Contentful Testing

Anthony Bailey

Handling Long-Running Tasks in Rails

Andrew Stewart

12:00 - 12:15 Coffee
12:15 - 13:00
Good OO Design on Rails

Steven Baker

Bonus Erlang Session

GordonGuthrie

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Deploying Rails with Litespeed: a developers best kept secret!

Tom Bedard

Code Generation: The Safety Scissors of Metaprogramming

Giles Bowkett

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee
15:00 - 16:30 Migrating to Ruby 1.9

Bruce Williams

16:45 - 17:30 Edgecase Dialog

Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien

17:30 - 22:00 Conference venue remains open for BOFs etc.

Saturday, 5 April

09:00 Keynote

David A Black

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee
10:15 - 11:00
Lessons Learned from Working With Rails

Martin Sadler

Rails Patterns

Jonathan Weiss

11:15 - 12:00
mobileAct: a high-risk Rails app for Channel 4

Thomas Pomfret

Collective Intelligence: Leveraging User Data to Create Intelligent Rails Applications

Paul Dix

12:00 - 12:15 Coffee
12:15 - 13:00 Advanced Ruby Class Design

Jim Weirich

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
BDD with Shouda

Tammer Saleh

Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby

Joe O'Brien

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee
15:00 - 16:30 JRuby on Rails: Up And Running!

Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo

16:30 Wrapup and Thanks