RubyConf Taiwan 2010

Behavior Driven Development for Rails Legacy Code

Thanks to Ruby on Rails, our dreams easily come true to show what’s in our mind to the world. However, feedbacks and changes after months somehow transform our dreams into nightmares. The code becomes impossible to change. We feel the need to make good changes, write more tests, refactor the code, but it is always difficult to make the first move.

In this talk, I will share my experiences of applying BBD with Cucumber and RSpec to an existing Rails project to make it alive.

Designing Beautiful Ruby APIs

Ruby is not a magic language, it's just an awesome language! Ruby has great usability and readability that is easy to use, easy to read for programmers. In this talk I will show you some beautiful APIs and how to write your own masterpieces.

How Ruby ecosystem can help your team

Deciphering Yehuda

Yehuda Katz has done some great Ruby refactoring for Rails 3 over the past year, but do you really understand what he’s done? In this talk, Gregg Pollack will attempt to examine Yehuda’s work, identify and deconstruct each programming technique that he’s applied, and then teach them in a way that everyone can understand.

The Rails core code has been improved greatly over the past year, mostly due to effective design patterns. We will break down some of the key changes which improved the quality of the code, and teach everyone how these techniques can be applied to their own code.

Some of these techniques include:

• Method compilation vs method missing
• Decoupling components
• Embracing Rack
• alias_method_chain vs super
• Abstract classes
• Componentization

Attendees should walk away with a greater understanding of some advanced Ruby design patterns and a better insight into the internals of Rails 3.

P.S. Yes we know the refactoring work had additional people helping (other then Yehuda). We’ll be sure to thank everyone involved at the start of the talk.

Rails 3 generators

Rails 3 is still under heavy development, but it is stable enough to play with. All the rage of rails 3 is that its modular and you can switch out parts that you do not want for things that you do. However, what happens when you want to switch ActiveRecord for DataMapper? Running the model generator still produces an ActiveRecord model, well at least in rails 2. But, with rails 3 you can hook into the generator system and the model generator (or scaffold or anything else that generates a model) will produce a DataMapper model. Learn how to hook up your favorite components into rails here.

有時候 Rails Sucks

Foy Savas will be talking about the circumstances under which the Rails framework still gives us pain and how we might be able to get around this.

Egalite - Web application framework in Ruby way

Have you ever feel that Ruby on Rails is not a Ruby? I love Ruby, but I feel existing frameworks are not following in Ruby way. So, I've written a web application framework that the users can feel they are writting a code in normal Ruby way.

In this talk, I will introduce our web application framework ‘egalite’. Egalite is a contrary to Ruby on Rails, it has only 1357 lines of code. It is intended to be easier to read.

Egalite is already in production ready, and has 92% C0 test coverage. We are pursuing to eliminate black magic from framework code, and to keep the code simple and small.

What Does 'We speak Ruby' Really Mean?

Presentation and Ruby

In 2005, I made a presentation to introduce a Rubyist group in Japan, called "Nihon Ruby no Kai (Japan Ruby Group)". At that time my presentation style is unique, so people called it "Takahashi Method".

Why do I love Ruby and use such presentation style? Is there any relationship between them? I'll show you the missing piece between two different activities. The keywords are "Name" and "Simplicity". (and Yes, it's something ad of my book (^_^) )