Ruby Hoedown Videos

written by jared on August 23rd, 2007 @ 01:56 AM

The Ruby Hoedown conference sessions are now available online from the Confreaks website.

Personally, my top picks for “must view” are:
  1. Using C to tune your Ruby (or Rails) Application
  2. Charity testing workshop
  3. Exploring Merb

Interestingly, while I was listening to Ezra’s presentation on Merb the first time, I kind of missed the point. The real power and purpose of Merb didn’t start sinking in for me until the second day, when I realized that there was a much bigger audience for a thread-safe, ActionPack-decoupled, performance tuned web framework. The validity of Ezra’s talk was reinforced by others, particularly Bruce Tate, who helped push the point home that Rails was just one stop on the Ruby journey. And, of course, it’s especially timely, considering the current dust-up over Pete’s Swanky Framework...