Frozen Rails Talk Proposal Template

speaker.md

Nick Sutterer

Contact details

• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @apotonick
• Website or Blog: http://nicksda.apotomo.de
• Company: ---

Speaker bio

Nick Sutterer is proud to be a member of the Ruby open source community. His Cells and Apotomo projects have been bringing increased view modularity and event-driven programming to Rails for years. He has enjoyed attending, and speaking at, Ruby conferences around the world. Buy him a beer sometime, and with very little prompting, he will tell you why there should be no such thing as a double-render error, why you should not confuse your models with your resources, and how to play a mean bass in a punk rock band.

talk.md

Off the Tracks - Challenging the Rails Mindset

• Desired talk duration: 30/45 minutes

Abstract

Rails - a word that stirs programmer's blood. It brought us testing, easy web app building, database abstraction and hundreds of extension gems. Why not take it to another level and discover how Rails turns into a real OOP framework? By exploring chosen gems let's discuss what MVC really is and how it boosts your AJAX user interface, how to apply patterns like DCI, dependency injection and POROs to your database layer and how to expose your Rails system through a real RESTful API. Also, have you ever tried using Rails helpers outside of Rails, maybe in Sinatra? Let's do it and learn about some refreshing aspects of this framework.

Notes

Brand-new and hot!!! Never gave this talk before!!!