Rails Party 2008 (english version)

(french version )

When

Sunday, November 30th 2008 (the day before Paris on Rails 2008 ) from 4pm to 10pm.

Where

Dune

18, avenue Claude Vellefaux

75010 Paris

Subway station : Colonel Fabien or Goncourt

Map (how to come )


Agrandir le plan

Google Maps Street view

Vélib station : n°10032 (n°12-14, avenue Claude Vellefaux)

What is a Rails Party ?

The eve of Paris on Rails, the french main event which gather railers coming from France, Belgium or Switzerland is a good opportunity to organize a social event where people can discuss in an informal way.

Organization

Ruby France association is organizing this event.

Audience

Railers, beginners or average.

Inscriptions

Attendees list will be published there.

Don’t forget your laptops (with Rails installed), your ??, votre alimentation, éventuellement votre cable sortie d’écran, USB key. Please installez jour gems. There will be Wifi connection.

Program

Afternoon : Workshops

From 4pm to 8om, 2 tracks.

Program is under construction.

Theme beginner

  • Rails Installation on Ubuntu Server, by Mourad Hammiche
  • Rspec, by Cyril Mougel

Theme Best practices

  • Best practices with Active Record, by Nicolas Mérouze
  • Unobstrusive JavaScript, by Mourad Hammiche

Theme “any topic”

  • Facebook, by Stéphane Akkaoui
  • Thinking Sphinx, by Nicolas Blanco
  • Migration of a Rails application from 2.0 to 2.2, by Cyril Mougel
  • Lazy pagination, by Alexis Toulotte
  • Rails 2.2’s i18n API, by Renaud Morvan

Afternoon : Hackfest

Free topics. You may come with your code Rails and ask help for debugging.

Evening : Lightning talks

Presentations last 5 minutes with less than 20 slides

  • YAPS, by Stéphane Akkaoui
  • What’s new in Typo, by Frédéric de Villamil
  • Desert, by Nicolas Mérouze
  • Pictrails, by Cyril Mougel
  • Prototype extension, by Sébastien Gruhier

(list on construction)

Sponsoring

This event is sponsored by AF83 and Novelys . Thanks to them!

Bearstech hosting

Bearstech company mettra à disposition gratuitement 10 comptes in their Rails hosting platform, during the event. The first 10 people, who ask by email before friday à jftran (at) rubyfrance (dot) org, will benefit fromit (we need a SSH public key).

Job Board

Les sociétés qui recrutent des railers ont la possibilité de nous envoyer des offres d’emploi Rails que nous afficherons à la Rails Party. La condition est de nous envoyer (à jftran (at) rubyfrance (point) org) cette offre d’emploi écrite en rimes (10 lignes maximum). Faites preuve un peu d’imagination et n’oubliez-pas : Constraints are liberating.

Keep inform

They talk about Rails Party

Feedback Rails Party

(more to come)

Slides

Nous demandons à tous ceux qui présenteront un atelier ou un lightning talk, de publier sur le Net leurs slides et de nous envoyer le lien (ou le pdf).

Tag

Please use the tag #railsparty on Flickr, Twitter, and so on.

Contact

Jean-François Trân (jftran [at] rubyfrance [dot] org) ou contact[at] rubyfrance[dot] org)