Rob Kaufman discusses common testing philosophies and methodologies in use by the Ruby community.

Steve Ross gives an introduction to behavior driven development using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec. This is a practical how-to for developers who have not yet integrated behavior driven development into their workflow.

John Lynch from Rigel Group gives an overview of Riak, the newest kid on the NoSQL block, and explains why it should power your next web-scale app.

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer.

Machine learning and data mining have long been "black arts" because they require access to expensive computing clusters. Randall Thomas discusses machine learning and the problem spaces it can help solve.

Mark Ranallo will give an introduction to using JRuby in conjunction with the Android Scripting Environment.

Nic Benders will show you what's needed for building a hosting environment for production applications. The focus will be on selecting server hardware, picking a Linux Distro, and getting your Rails app running.

Guyren Howe gives a way-too-brief demonstration of OpenCyc, an AI technology based on the world's most comprehensive general-purpose ontology. Along the way, he reveals how to talk to OpenCyc using JRuby.

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling.

Jarin Udom shows how to set up a full Rails stack and deploy your app on a bare Ubuntu server in 10 minutes. Is he drunk? Find out!