Rails has powered Oakley.com, a site generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the past two years. It has 80 models, an equal number of controllers, 75k lines of code…and no tests. I will talk about how we’ve been chipping away at growing an effective, valuable test suite …
Ruby’s success in several domains is arguably due to domain-specific languages (DSLs) that generate code: we have tools that generate HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and so we get to write web applications in ruby; ditto SQL and database applications. There are some less well known examples in the simulation and …
The Ruby programming language powers a significant portion of today’s websites and is still growing in popularity. However, its implementation is not as efficient as it could be, and in this talk we will explain how Ruby Enterprise Edition addresses some of these issues.
Most Ruby programmers have a mental model of how Ruby manages objects and classes. But the chances are good that this model is more complicated that it should be. Come and see how simple Ruby really is; a couple of simple concepts cover all you need to know. Once you …
There are a number of areas where rails can help web application developers ensure that their applications are appropriately secured (eg, CSRF protection and encoding of output) but there are others which can never really be addressed by frameworks alone. Additionally it’s very easy when developing an application to make …
Over the past two and a half years, I have helped launch over 15 different Rails Content Management and E-commerce solutions. In recent months I was able to take a step back and work towards creating a truly reusable code base and platform. I’d like to present some of the …