Announcement

LA Ruby Conference 2012

This is the fourth year for the LA Ruby Conference. Thank you for joining us.

Registration for the conference is now open.

February 2nd-4th, 2012
Holiday Inn Media Center
Burbank, California


Buy a ticket for Thursday workshop


Ruby Fundamentals or Maintainable Rails or Ruby Koans


Buy a ticket for Friday Workshop

Rails Fundamentals or Vital Testing


Buy your Saturday Conference Ticket

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Buy Tickets Now!!

Sorry for earlier confusion around the ticket purchases, you can now buy tickets for each workshop and the conference at the one link above.

Sponsors

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If you are interested in sponsoring the Los Angeles Ruby Conference for 2012 please download the prospectus.

Presentation

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How to scale a Ruby webservice

In the wide world of web service development, Ruby is rarely the first pick as a platform to build on. Slowness and scalability are usually the reasons given to go with Java or something less friendly. However, language is rarely the bottleneck in a web application. Using a service at ATTi as an example, we'll look at how most service applications can be built and scaled in Ruby, and how to avoid common pitfalls.