Videos tagged with Ruby Hoedown

Marcel Molina Jr. is a language enthusiast who went from being a literature major to a programmer. In his transition from natural language to machine language he found Ruby an elegant balance of dynamic, pragmatic and "humane". And then came along Rails. Marcel tumblelogs on Projectionist and tries to help keep your apps running smoothly as a developer at FiveRuns.

This video contains a compilation of all lightning talks and presentations from Ruby Hoedown 2007 conference.

There's been a lot of discussion lately about putting Ruby to work in a corporate setting, but this talk is about Ruby at play. Andrea Wright will evaluate Ruby's potential as a platform for game programming, looking at a variety of frameworks for integrating graphics (2D and 3D) and analyzing the architecture of Ruby-based game servers. If you're not into gaming, there will still be plenty of ...

Merb is the new kid on the block of ruby web frameworks. In this talk we will explore some of the design goals of the framework and look at how it's put together. Merb is a small core designed to give the basic infrastructure for dealing with HTTP requests/responses along with routing, controllers and template rendering. The basic premise is simple hackable framework code that you build up to y...

Adhearsion's creator Jay Phillips will discuss Ruby's work in VoIP and how even complete telephony novices can powerfully develop their own VoIP system with Asterisk and Adhearsion using pure-Ruby for all application logic. Attendees will see Jay develop a sophisticated Adhearsion application that integrates and handles calls from the public telephone network and integrates with a Rails applica...

The Ruby language is growing exponentially, partially because it offers more flexibility than other more common languages. All of that flexibility comes at a price: Ruby has no compiler to catch certain kinds of basic mistakes. Automated testing makes those disadvantages obsolete. Now, testing is firmly ingrained in the Ruby culture. In this session, we'll cover Test::Unit, the standard Ruby di...