Presentation: "Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One of the Largest Rails Projects in the World"

Track: AGILE CASE STUDIES / Time: Tuesday 13:30 - 14:30 / Location: Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset

While others have been debating whether Rails can scale to enterprise levels, we've been demonstrating it. ThoughtWorks is running one of the largest Rails projects in the world, for an Enterprise. This session discusses tactics, techniques, best practices, and other things we've learned from scaling rails development. I discuss infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance, and the results of lots of lessons learned, including killer rock-scissors-paper tricks to help you avoid babysitting the view tests!
 
Keywords: Ruby, Rails, architecture, emergent design, Web 2.0
 
Target Audience: Anyone interested in applied agility, Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, open source infrastructure

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Neal Ford, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks

Neal Ford

Biography: Neal Ford

Neal is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of 6 books, including the most recent The Productive Programmer.

His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Groovy, functional languages, Scheme, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. 

Software Passion: To revolutionize IT, leaving the profession in better shape than I found it.

Links:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/neal4d
Blog: http://memeagora.blogspot.com
Web site: www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.