September 4-6, 2008
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 – HALF-DAY TRAINING COURSES | ||
| 09:00-12:00 | Test Driven Development Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien | Advanced ActiveRecord Workshop Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer |
| 01:30-04:30 | Advanced Mocking Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien | The Ins and Outs of Ruby I/O James Edward Gray II and Gregory Brown |
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 – FULL-DAY TRAINING COURSES | ||
| 09-12:00/01:30-05:00 Break 3-3:30 |
Rails Refactoring: Triage, Prevention, and Performance Adam Bair, Pradeep Elankumaran and Chris Selmer | |
| 09-12:00/01:30-05:00 Break 3-3:30 |
Merb + DataMapper Aaron Farnham, Ben Burkert and Brian Smith | |
| 09-12:00/01:30-05:00 Break 3-3:30 |
thoughtbot’s Rails Best Practices Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh, Jon Yurek, Jared Carroll, Dan Croak, Matt Jankowski | |
| 05:00-06:30 | RECEPTION (Hosted by FiveRuns) | |
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 – CONFERENCE | ||
| 08:00-09:00 | REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST | |
| 09:00-09:15 | LOGISTICS | |
| 09:15-10:15 | The Next Ruby Bruce Williams | |
| 10:15-11:15 | Hidden Gems James Edward Gray II | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Ruby Best Practice Patterns Rein Henrichs | |
| 12:15-01:30 | LUNCH | |
| 01:30-02:30 | Javascript frameworks with Ruby Wynn Netherland | Using Metrics to Take a Hard Look at Your Code Jake Scruggs |
| 02:30-03:30 | Care and Feeding of Ruby Developers Steve Sanderson | Grammar – A BNF-like Ruby DSL for Parsing Eric Mahurin |
| 03:30-04:00 | BREAK | |
| 04:00-05:00 | Creating Desktop Applications With Ruby on Mac OS X Brian Cooke | Building and Managing a Ruby Infrastructure Jeremy Hinegardner & Fernand Galiana |
| 05:00-06:00 | Unconventional Wisdom Bruce Tate | Ruby in the Cloud Mike Subelsky |
| 06:00-07:30 | DINNER | |
| 07:30-08:00 | Keynote: Evan Phoenix | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Keynote: Yukihiro Matsumoto | |
| 09:00-12:00 | ATTENDEE ADHOC | |
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – CONFERENCE | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Ruby: A Year of Innovation Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Using jQuery with Ruby Web Frameworks Yehuda Katz | Packet-Fu with Ruby Tod Beardsley |
| 11:00-12:00 | Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application Francis Sullivan | Resource-Driven Web Development With Waves Dan Yoder |
| 12:15-01:15 | LUNCH | |
| 01:20-01:30 | Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom James W. McGuffee, Ph.D. | |
| 01:30-02:30 | How not to Build a Service Mike Perham | Ruby Anvil: The Desktop Application Framework Lance Carlson |
| 02:30-03:30 | Merb: The Pocket Rocket Framework Yehuda Katz | Scientific Computing with Ruby and the GSA David Richards |
| 03:30-04:00 | BREAK | |
| 04:00-04:10 | What’s Ruby doing in an Java IDE like NetBeans? Lots! Jeffrey L. Taylor | |
| 04:10-04:20 | Ruby and Virtual Teams Wynn Netherland | |
| 04:20-04:30 | Ruby without Borders Matthew Todd | |
| 04:30-05:30 | Tactical Design Glenn Vanderburg | |
| 05:30-07:00 | DINNER | |
| 07:00-08:00 | PANEL – RUBY: Designers, Producers & Consumers (Matz, Dave Thomas, Evan Phoenix, Yehuda Katz, Glenn Vanderburg. Moderated by Hal Fulton ) | |
| 08:00-08:30 | CLOSING REMARKS | |
| 08:30-12:00 | ATTENDEE ADHOC | |
