Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.

Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there....

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time.

Cliff Rhyne describes in 15 minutes what it takes to get up and running with RSpec.

Much like Rails, Merb is a MVC web-framework written in Ruby. In this talk, Jordan Fowler introduces Merb and presents some of the distinctions and tra...

Adam Grant talks about his experiences using Ext, a new Javascript library for creating advanced UI controls (like grids, trees, progress bars, etc.)

John Bresnik discusses the ruby library for the Facebook API, Facebooker, based on his production experience building Facebook applications. Presentati...

Jared Kuolt shows how to quickly deploy your Rails application to a Slicehost VPS. This talk covers installing MySQL, Nginx, Rails and Mongrel, as well...

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as ...

Matt Aimonetti lays down the law on best-practice Ajax, using behavior oriented javascript with progressive enhancement.

Rob Kaufman talks about using ActionMailer safely, how to keep out of the spam box and how to test your emails before your customers see them.