You can download the 10 MB PDF of the full program guide here.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Morning
- 8:00 - 9:00
- Registration
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Welcome
- 9:30 - 11:30
- Opening Keynote: Strengthening the Ruby Ecosystem - Ezra Zygmuntowicz [video] & Evan Phoenix [video]
- 11:30 - 1:00
- Lunch
Afternoon
- 1:00 - 2:00
- Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming - Giles Bowkett
- 2:00 - 3:00
- Faster, Better, ORM with DataMapper - Yehuda Katz
- 3:00 - 4:00
- Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby - Jonathan Younger
- 4:00 - 5:00
- Lightning Talks
Evening
- 5:00 - 7:00
- Dinner
- 7:00 - 8:00
- Deep Ruby - Jeremy McAnally
- 8:00 - 9:00
- Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby - Joe O'Brien
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Morning
- 8:00 - 9:00
- Registration
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Welcome
- 9:30 - 10:30
- Enough Statistics so that Zed won't yell at you - Devlin Daley
- 10:30 - 11:30
- Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB - Jan Lehnardt
- 11:30 - 1:00
- Lunch
Afternoon
- 1:00 - 2:00
- Ruby Internals - Patrick Farley
- 2:00 - 3:00
- BDD with Shoulda - Tammer Saleh
- 3:00 - 4:00
- What To Do when Mongrel Stops Responding to Your Requests and Ruby Doesn't Want to Tell You About It - Philippe Hanrigou
- 4:00 - 5:00
- Lightning Talks
Evening
- 5:00 - 7:00
- Dinner
- 7:00 - 9:00
- Closing Keynote: Shaving with Ockham - Jim Weirich
About the conference
MountainWest RubyConf is brought to you by MountainWest Ruby, LLC. We are committed to promoting and supporting the Ruby community.
The conference is two full days this year, and costs just $100 which includes lunch both days, t-shirts, and a terrific opportunity to rub elbows with some of the smartest Rubyists around. We have a great list of presenters with compelling presentations.






