The talk will give a brief introduction to CouchDB and move on to explain how to get started with developing applications. I will go through the existing frameworks available (including my own called Couch Potato) and show the advantages and problems. I will be coding live showing how people can …
An examination of the concept of “connascence†and building modular programs. http://scotland-on-rails.s3.amazonaws.com/1A03_JimWeirich-SOR.mp4
Daniel Moore will demonstrate using the HotRuby VM to execute Ruby code natively in the browser. The demonstration shows how Ruby can call native JS libraries, like jQuery, to perform DOM manipulation. http://sdruby.org/podcast/65
An introduction and review of best practices for dealing with binary data in Ruby. This will include examples with binary memcached, Open Sound Control, AMQP, and others. Presentation by Brian Mitchell at RubyConf 2009.
In this screencast we take a look at the evolution of a database heavy Rails application. We learn how you might grow the app initially using vertical scaling and then move to horizontal scaling with Replication using the Masochism plugin. Lastly we cover a few other good uses of Replication …