Explore the latest Rails developments at this four-day event co-presented by O'Reilly and Ruby Central.
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 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.
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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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.
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.
Read the full release.
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!
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.
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Dary praises RailsConf 2008 as passionate and fascinating.
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.
Sean Michael Kerner enters this perspective on recent Twitter hiccups and RoR.
Paul Krill reports on Microsoft’s demonstration of their new Silveright browser plug-in technology at RailsConf this year.
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.
David Simms examines Intridea’s new launch Scalr, which debuted at RailsConf Thursday, May 29.
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.
Henry Work reports on the FiveRuns launch– TuneUp, a “social debugging tool for Rails applications.”
Once again Chad Fowler and his Ruby Central cohorts have put together an excellent schedule of sessions and tutorials. This probably explains why, like last year, seats are going fast for RailsConf 2008, so sign up while you can.
This post is worth reading, if for no other reason that the crazy artwork!
The most important thing at a conference is the time between the sessions
Justin thinks that perhaps no one is listening (see the title of the blog). We are, and want to share
with you what he had to say about this year’s event:
Now that I am home and have managed to sleep a bit I have been thinking about my overall experience at Railsconf 2007.
Obie had this to say about the keynote auditorium for the opening Keynote here at RailsConf:
Beholding 1600 people in the auditorium was truly awe-inspiring.
Mr. Richardson gushes about the dignitaries at RailsConf:
This conference is huge… there are 1,600 Rails coders here
Paul Krill was at RailsConf and reported the following:
InfoWorld’s Coverage of RailsConf
John Dorsey covered the show, and reported on a few items:
Dr. Dobb’s Journal
Attendee and show photographer James Duncan Davidson noticed the show’s network speed was comprimised and had this to say:
“Before you go off and blame the network however, I’d like to share a little insider tip…”
The Rails community knew DHH was on top of his game, but ScribeMedia
had this to say:
“There’s smart, then there’s really smart, and then there’s really damn smartl.”
Tim Bray of Sun is enjoying RailsConf, read what he has to say here:
“Chad Fowler delivered an absolutely smashing welcome…”
Here at RailsConf, we’re delighted to have non-for-profit Rails For All exhibiting. News from their booth follows:
Rails For All, Inc. Forges Links Into the Rails Community
Portland OR, May 20, 2007 — Rails For All, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of Ruby on Rails, and demonstrating how it can be used to help businesses of all sizes create amazing Web sites and applications is exhibiting at RailsConf. Rails For All is bridging the gap between the development community and the companies it serves, by bringing savvy businesses intent on maximizing their opportunities on the Web together with experienced, passionate, and innovative Rails developers.
“The Rails For All booth, donated by O’Reilly, is getting a lot of traffic. We are getting a lot of great feedback from the community on ways we can help to promote developers to businesses,” said Robert Dempsey, Founder of Rails For All, Inc.
At the Rails For All site, visitors can now view content in Spanish, with French, Polish and Chinese coming soon. Developers can promote their favorite designers, invite other developers to join the community and even post profiles hoping for business opportunities.
Rails for All, a not-for-profit organization is also actively recruiting sponsors. For more information, visit:
Rails For All
More news from the show, this time from ActiveState:
ActiveState Releases Advanced IDE for Ruby on Rails
There is lots of news coming from Rails Conference here in Portland. Here is what is going
on with one of our sponsors:
Five Runs Introduces…
From RailsConf sponsor (thank you!) CodeGear comes this announcment on the eve of RailsConf:
New IDE supports Rails open source Web development framework for data-driven Web 2.0 applications
As Web developers flock to the Ruby on Rails framework for its speed and ease of use, CodeGear is introducing new technology to make Ruby users even more productive in building Web 2.0 applications.
CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced an integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails that is now available for beta testing and is currently planned to ship in the second half of 2007.
Unveiled at the RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon, the new technology offers innovative productivity features designed to allow both new and experienced Rails developers to build Ruby on Rails applications efficiently and quickly.
Which is great news–unless you were planning to attend and didn’t get a chance to sign up before we closed registration. We’re trying to find more space at the Oregon Convention Center, and in case we find it, we’ve started a RailsConf waiting list. If you still want to attend, please add your name to the list and we’ll let you know if we are able to re-open registration.
Grab a seat while you can–we just opened registration thirty-five minutes ago, and we’ve already broken all previous conference sign-up records!
By all accounts it was a smashing event last year, and we’re pretty excited to be working with the Ruby Central guys on RailsConf 2007, which is happening May 17-20 in Portland, OR. We’ve opened the call for participation, so submit those proposals, and tell a friend! The deadline is November 27. Even if you don’t want to speak, we encourage you to share your ideas–head over to the RailsConf 2007 wiki to post your comments and suggestions.
It’s official–we’re co-hosting next year’s RailsConf with our friends over at Ruby Central. RailsConf 2007 happens at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, May 17-20. Other dates of note: Call for Participation opens in October 2006 and general registration opens in early 2007. Sign up for the RailsConf newsletter if you’d like to receive updates.
