AoR – Scaling Rails with Varnish
Varnish is an HTTP accelerator that you can deploy to take pressure off your Rails applications. In this talk, Eric will give an overview of Varnish and how it is deployed at Mass Relevance to...
View ArticleAoR – AntiPatterns in Ruby
As the size of our Rails applications grow, so does the complexity. We’ll cover some common mistakes encountered in Rails and how to avoid them. Antipatterns are what people use whenever best...
View ArticleAoR – From Process Model to Asset Pipeline AND Deploying Rails 3.1 on Heroku
In this talk Terence Lee and Chris Continanza of Heroku will take you through how deployment on Heroku works. We’ll start with the Unix Process Model and show how Heroku’s Cedar Platform focuses on...
View ArticleAoR – Deploying Rails to your own private cloud with OpenNebula and Cobbler
It’s a fact Rails wouldn’t be where it is today without fantastic cloud providers like Amazon, EngineYard, Heroku, and Rackspace. The ability to scale hardware to run your Rails applications with what...
View ArticleAoR – Demystifying ActiveRecord
For many new Rails developers, their first exposure to Rails (and often Ruby) is through ActiveRecord and “magical” incantations like ‘hasmany’ or ‘belongsto’. In this talk, we’ll pull back the...
View ArticleAoR – Taming Complex Data Models
Taming Complex Data Models — Mason Hale The real-world is rife with complex relationships and arbitrary rules. As developers, we are often faced with the challenge of modeling and managing these...
View ArticleAoR – Backgrounding Tasks in Rails
Backgrounding Tasks in Rails – Marcus Mateus Frequently web applications need to perform tasks which can take far too long to handle in a healthy request cycle. Marcus will showcase a few options for...
View ArticleUsing Pry To Learn Rails
Stacy Vlasits convincing us why we must use Pry as an IRB replacement for plain Ruby as well as for the Rails console. Stacy will also give a brief summary of how he uses Sublime Text to work with...
View ArticleNoSQL Landscape
As recent applications have faced the demands of the mobile and social space, the limitations of the relational database model have surfaced. NoSQL database technologies have emerged to enable the...
View ArticleTesting Rails apps with Capybara
Daniel Hedrick gives an introduction to testing web applications in Rails with Capybara. 4.8.2013 (meetup)
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