Fog is a Ruby gem that gives a web developer control of cloud services through a unified API

Developers who want their Rack and Rails applications perform better and faster scale their applications by running multiple processes or using threads or… they are just using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries.

As a Ruby on Rails developer, in your carrier you’ve probably faced a problem of generating a pdf file. Most probably, as a open source zealot you browsed the web for some appropriate solution.

Some IT experts believe that the true power of a programming language lies in it’s usability, the adaptiveness to everyday workflow of a programmer. Coding web application, no matter what programming language or framework you’re using, whether it is Ruby on Rails, PHP and Cake or Python with Django, implies not only the whole process of writing web application, but also hosting it(isn’t it obvious?).

date: 2010-07-03 – 2010-07-04
As usual for a BarCamp, besides a time frame no fixed program. Who what when want to make for a session (whether lecture, discussion, hands-on or otherwise) you can at the beginning of the day decide.

With Glyph, you can manage your documents tidily in projects and generate deliverables in different formats such as HTML or PDF

sexy_scope is a small wrapper around Arel::Attribute that adds a little syntactic sugar when creating scopes in ActiveRecord.

Isolate is a tool for managing RubyGems by including them within the project that requires them. Authors sees Isolate as a stable, very simple, and scalable project. Most importantly, new developments and feature enhancements have been welcomed with open arms.

Tailor – a Ruby on Rails plugin for Ruby on Rails developers focused on self improvement

HAML – HTML Abstraction Markup Language is best described as a layer on top of XHTML that lays down the structure of documents written within XHTML specification, facilitating the embedding of Ruby (and it’s frameworks like Merb, GRails or Ruby on Rails).