Rails Conf '08: Day 4 — Sunday, June 1
8AM-9AM
Continental Breakfast (60 mins) Exhibit Hall E
9:00AM -9:15AM
mod_rails: Easy and Robust Deployment of Your Ruby on Rails Applications on Apache Webservers Hongli Lai (Phusion), Ninh Bui (Phusion)
The Worst Rails Code You’ve Ever Seen (And How Not to Write It Yourself) Obie Fernandez (HashRocket)
CS Nerds Anonymous TBC
10:15AM
AM Break (30 mins) Exhibit Hall E
10:45AM – 11:45AM
Waxing ballroom floors on the Titanic (and other less seaworthy vessels) Rick Bradley (OG Consulting), Yossef Mendelssohn (OG Consulting), Kevin Barnes (OGC)
Scaling Ruby from the Inside Out Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard)
De-Railing: Smashing the Rails Stack Aaron Bedra (Relevance, Inc.)
Advanced Mongrel: Handlers and Plugins James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
10:45AM -11:45AM
Dispelling the Myths About Rails Performance Lewis Cirne (New Relic, Inc.) D135-136
Building Applications using the Ruby Enterprise Stack (RubyES) Denis Lussier (EnterpriseDB) D138-139
11:45AM -12:35PM
Everyday DTrace on OSX: A Guide To Using DTrace for Your Full Application Stack Scott Barron (EdgeCase), Chad Humphries (EdgeCase)
Genomes on Rails Matt Wood (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Oh the Fail I’ve Known Adam Keys (FiveRuns)
Lightning Talks 
Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
11:45AM -12:35PM
Payments on Rails Emil Marceta (E-Xact Transactions) D135-136
One year of scaling Rails on Amazon EC2 Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc) D138-139
12:35PM-1:50PM
Lunch (75 mins) Exhibit Hall E
1:50PM -2:45PM
Building an app in 48 hours – A Rails Rumble Case Study Josh Owens (Intridea, Inc/Web 2.0 Show Podcast), Chris Selmer (Intridea, Inc.)
Advanced Active Record Techniques: Best Practice Refactoring Chad Pytel (thoughtbot, inc.)
Open Discussion with JRuby Developers and Users Open Discussion with JRuby Developers and Users
ActiveRecord Associations and the Proxy Pattern Nick Kallen (Pivotal Labs)
2:45PM -3:55PM
Rails Core Panel David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Jeremy Kemper (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Rick Olson (ActiveReload) Location — Portland Ballroom
3:35PM
Closing Reception (40 mins) Exhibit Hall E
Posted on Jan 04, 2008 by Kevin Milden
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