O'Reilly Conferences: RailsConf

RailsConf 2009 Gives Practical Tools for Success: Deeply Technical Sessions Fill Days Dedicated to Rails

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-05-27T14:08:52-08:00

Sebastopol, CA, May 26, 2009 — RailsConf 2009, the annual event for the Ruby on Rails community held May 4-7 in Las Vegas, gave new and experienced Rails users practical tools for staying agile and competitive in an industry being transformed by fast-paced innovation. For four intense days, developers engaged directly with more than 100 expert speakers, learning how to exploit the popular framework’s newest features to solve problems and build businesses.

RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. More than 1,300 web developers, IT managers, web-based business entrepreneurs, and others gathered to learn the basics, catch up on the latest developments, and sharpen their expertise, through a variety of presentations and events arranged by Program Chair Chad Fowler and Associate Chairs David Black and Rich Kilmer. At CabooseConf, a free, parallel unconference, skilled Rails coders from all over the world met in one room to work on their Rails projects.

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RailsConf 2009 Speaker Interviews

Suzanne Axtell — 2009-04-15T15:39:03-08:00

RailsConf program chair Chad Fowler is conducting a series of speaker interviews in the run-up to the event, which is happening very soon, May 4-7 in Las Vegas. Mosey on over to ChadFowler.com to read more about Neal Ford and Paul Gross of ThoughtWorks, Michael Bleigh, who is Creative Director and Open-Source Activist at Intridea, JRuby and Rubinius leaders Charlie Nutter and Evan Phoenix, as well as Chad’s musing on Rails, Ruby, and open source.

News Release: RailsConf Opens Registration and Spotlights Rails' Next Generation: Rails 3 - Merges Rails and Merb

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2009-01-29T15:59:03-08:00

Sebastopol, CA, January 26, 2009 - Want to see Rails 3 roll out? O’Reilly Media and Ruby Central have opened registration for RailsConf 2009, happening May 4-7, 2009, at the Las Vegas Hilton. RailsConf, the official event for the Ruby on Rails community, will showcase the latest developments in the merger of Rails and Merb into Rails 3.

RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Innovative and successful Rails experts and companies interact at RailsConf through keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events. The conference provides attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies which enable new arrivals to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.

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Rails + Merb = Rails 3

Suzanne Axtell — 2009-01-07T15:23:43-08:00

One particularly sweet and surprising piece of tech news happened just before Christmas, traditionally a pretty slow time of year for most important announcements: Rails and Merb will be merged into Rails 3.

Judging from the wealth of comments on both David Heinemeier Hansson’s and Yehuda Katz’s blog posts about it, the news was enthusiastically received by both communities. As one of the nearly 200 commenters on DHH’s blog post announcing the merger wrote, “Rails 3 FTW!”

Over on the Eden Development blog, Chris wrote

Now, the best bits of merb will become Rails 3, and some of the best ruby coders in the business will be working on the framework we use every day. That’s a great thing for Rails users everywhere. Despite the claims of some, it’s not about one set of people ‘winning’ and one ‘losing’. Ultimately the combined codebase is the real winner, and therefore the people that use it, such as companies like ourselves. We’ll certainly do all we can to support the move here.

While tentatively scheduled to release during RailsConf May 4-7 in Las Vegas (an admittedly ambitious timeframe), DHH recently noted that the flow of Merb ideas into Rails 3 is already under way.

The Call for Participation for RailsConf is open until February 17–a much longer period than usual, precisely to accommodate new developments like this.

News Release: RailsConf 2009 Opens Call for Participation: Extended Review Period Will Include Up-to-the-minute Materials

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-10-17T13:58:24-08:00

Sebastopol, CA, October 14, 2008–RailsConf 2009 will gather the Ruby on Rails community in Las Vegas May 4-7, 2009, at the Las Vegas Hilton. Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc. have opened the Call for Participation, which will remain open an extra three months in order to accommodate the most up-to-the minute Rails topics. Program Chair Chad Fowler invites proposals for conference sessions, workshops, and panels from Rubyists, hackers, web developers, system administrators, and anyone else with a passion for Rails.

RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Through keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events, RailsConf is an interactive meeting ground for the most innovative and successful Rails experts and companies. The conference provides attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.

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Call for Participation Is Open for RailsConf 2009

Suzanne Axtell — 2008-10-14T10:01:10-08:00

Head to Vegas, baby! Ruby Central and O’Reilly Media have just opened the call for speakers for the 2009 edition of RailsConf. If you’re a hacker, Rubyist, trainer, web developer, Rails system administrator, and/or entrepreneur, submit a proposal to speak at RailsConf 2009. Help make the next RailsConf the best ever!

newsblaze.com: RailsConf '08-Passionate about Rails

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-08-28T13:21:56-08:00

News Blaze highlights RailsConf ‘08:

“Passionate and fascinating” is the way one developer summed up RailsConf 2008 in Portland May 26-June 1, the largest physical gathering of Ruby and Rails developers in the world.

Espndev.com: RailsConf 2008 Retrospective

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-06-03T16:26:14-08:00

Dary praises RailsConf 2008 as passionate and fascinating.

Infoq.Com: GemStone Revealed Plans for MagLev Ruby

Maureen Jennings, Conferences Publicist — 2008-06-01T08:59:00-08:00

Nick Laiacona covers the news about GemStone’s new MagLev project

Drewblas.com: RailsConf 2008 - Friday Evening Summary

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-31T10:54:41-08:00

Drew Blas posts this excellent, in-depth summation of Friday night at RailsConf. Blas reports on Charles Nutter’s talk “The Sun you don’t know,” the winners of the Ruby Hero awards, and contributes a thoughtful, detailed exploration of David Heinemeier Hansson’s thought-provoking keynote.

Internetnews.com: Twitter Rocks on Ruby on Rails

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-31T10:42:40-08:00

Sean Michael Kerner enters this perspective on recent Twitter hiccups and RoR.

InfoWorld: Microsoft Linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-31T10:32:05-08:00

Paul Krill reports on Microsoft’s demonstration of their new Silveright browser plug-in technology at RailsConf this year.

BetaNews: Twitter Developer Hints it May Not be Hot on Ruby on Rails After All

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-31T10:28:48-08:00

Scott M. Fulton, III examines the ramifications and implications of Twitters recent technical problems.

Two weeks ago, following the rapid spread of rumors that the Twitter service — recently besieged with technical troubles — may be abandoning the Ruby on Rails development platform in building a replacement platform for itself, the company’s co-founder Biz Stone flat out refuted those rumors in a comment to BetaNews.

TMCnet: Intridea Debuts Scalr, Hosting Environment Using the Amazon Cloud

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-30T12:20:04-08:00

David Simms examines Intridea’s new launch Scalr, which debuted at RailsConf Thursday, May 29.

InfoWorld: The Path Towards a Language Specification for Ruby

Avila Reese - PR Contributor — 2008-05-30T11:00:13-08:00

Savio Rodrigues reports on Engin Yard’s Rubinius project which previewed at RailsConf.

What’s interesting is that since Ruby doesn’t really have a specification, it’s difficult to say that platform xyz is not a compatible implementation of a Ruby runtime. In response, Rubinius decided to create a test suite that could help standardize Ruby as a language across the growing number of VM implementations for Ruby.