Presentation: "Rails 2.0"

Time: Friday 14:30 - 15:30

Location: Abbey Room

Abstract:

Rails 2.0 was released in December 2007, 7 months after the previous major release (1.2.3). With 2.0 comes thousands of changes, contributed by hundreds of developers. Which is nice.

Should you use it? Should you upgrade? Is there anything really useful in Rails since 2.0? Like what, and how do I upgrade?

Answers: yes; yes; yes; 45 minutes should be enough to answer that question.

Dr. Nic Williams

Dr. Nic  Williams

Dr Nic Williams is known for his exciting blend of software development, entertaining education, and thorough training.

He picked up Ruby on Rails in 2005, he has released successful websites, such as MyConfPlan, and a growing collection of open source projects that are used throughout the Ruby on Rails community - New Gem Generator, Composite Primary Keys, and his quirkily famous "Magic Models", plus more.

For the last two years, Dr Nic has lived and worked in India, Sweden, Netherlands and Australia; and has worked for telcos and for several startup web companies.