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Uptime is important for any application, but it's absolutely critical for a payment gateway. At Braintree, our goal is zero downtime for our merchants. We tackle high availability in some unique ways using Ruby as one of our main tools. Specifically, this talk will focus on: * Performing maintenance in small (30 second) windows * Suspending traffic during small maintenance windows to prevent downtime * Automating infrastructure changes About the…
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Using tools like Ruby, we can deliver value quickly, but sometimes at a cost of understanding: we're never really aware of our entire development stack. Blake Smith from Groupon shares how he built an entire functioning computer simulation, from Nand logic gate all the way to CPU and RAM, and how it enabled him to write better software and reason better about the machine. Interested in mobile development? WindyCityGo (http://windycitygo.org) is Chicago's…
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Late in 2008 the Rails and Merb development teams merged to create Rails 3, the most robust, most extensible, best release of everyone's favorite Ruby web framework. But while those competing teams merged, their frameworks didn't. Though Rails 3 shows plenty of influence from Merb and its creators, today Merb itself is a legacy framework, with no clear, supported path for Merb apps to move forward to Rails 3 without significant effort. Typekit is…
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MongoDB by 10gen is a widely used NoSQL database. Our presenter will take us through the process of building a Rails app on top of MongoDB. For an even deeper experience, come prepared with the following installed on your laptop: Rails 3.1, Mongoid, and MongoDB. Building a team? Looking to join a team? Visit the ChicagoRuby Job Board: http://jobs.chicagoruby.org.
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Just when you thought it was safe to return to ChicagoRuby... Regular Expressions Part Two! Join Aaron Kalin as he takes us through the second part of his exploration of regular expressions. Come prepared with regex questions. Building a team? Looking to join a team? Visit the ChicagoRuby Job Board: http://jobs.chicagoruby.org.
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ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in downtown Chicago and the suburbs.
Details: meetup.com/chicagoruby
Building a team? Looking to join a team? Visit the Chicago Ruby Job Board: jobs.chicagoruby.org.
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