Sensors and servos in hand, JD Barnhart shows off the current state of RAD, the Rails inspired framework bringing convention over configuration and Ruby sensibility to the Arduino Physical computing platform.

Jordan Fowler reveals his new Shadow plugin that tracks attribute and association changes to ActiveRecord objects, making it easy to create activity feeds for your application.

Giles Bowkett shows off his mega-cool MIDI scaffolding generator for creating dance music with Ruby.

Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.

Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there.

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby and rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time.

Cliff Rhyne describes in 15 minutes what it takes to get up and running with RSpec.

Much like Rails, Merb is a MVC web-framework written in Ruby. In this talk, Jordan Fowler introduces Merb and presents some of the distinctions and tradeoffs between the two frameworks.

Adam Grant talks about his experiences using Ext, a new Javascript library for creating advanced UI controls (like grids, trees, progress bars, etc).