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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I''ve written a long time ago about ActiveRecord and it''s speed problems. I''ve even written a few plugins that I''ve brought up to the list, and I''m back to say that it can be fixed and will be fixed. Here''s a taste of what is coming... http://blogs.mktec.com/zdennis/articles/category/ruby

I am working on and will be publicly showing ActiveRecord some love around the time of the RubyConf*MI [1] in late August. My main focus is getting AR to better handle inserts, updates and merges when working large sets of data. It can improve improve performance by 400% to 600% in preliminary benchmarks. I am coding this in a way so it can be patched to AR easily, and with that in mind

Hi -- Registration for RubyConf 2006 is now open, at http://www.regonline.com/101503. Please note that we are accepting credit cards *only*. There''s more conference info at http://www.rubyconf.org. Thanks -- David for RubyConf 2006 and Ruby Central, Inc. -- http://www.rubypowerandlight.com => Ruby/Rails training & consultancy ----> SEE SPECIAL DEAL FOR RUBY/RAILS

MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is scheduled for March 28 and 29, 2008. It will be in Salt Lake City, at the same great venue we had last year, and it is again our intent to record and make available all the talks under a Creative Commons, Share-Alike license -- you can see last year''s talks here: http://mtnwestrubyconf2007.confreaks.com/ If you''ve been working on a problem

[Strictly speaking, this isn''t really a "reminder", since I''m fairly sure the original announcement didn''t go to this list. Nonetheless -- here it is!] Hi everyone -- In case you missed it the first time (and rather a lot of you seem to have...) -- You can now submit a RubyConf 2006 presentation proposal, at: http://proposals.rubygarden.org You

One of the things that I''m most excited to have as part of the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf is the second Alternative Ruby Implementors'' Summit and Panel -- I wrote a bit more about it here: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/01/mountainwest-rubyconf-implementors.html The rest of the speakers and talks are listed here: http://mtnwestruby.org/speakers/ If you''re interested

Hi all Sorry folks, I won''t be at RubyConf this year. I burned up the travel budget with a trip to Thailand, a makeup trip to Florida, and I''m headed to Florida again this Christmas. At least this gives me more time to work on Wuby. :) Regards, Dan

Hi all, Is anyone on the list going to RubyConf this year? I don''t know yet if I''m going to go. I''m still thinking about it. Regards, Dan

Hi -- Registration for RubyConf 2006 is still scheduled to open on August 2, in the early evening Pacific (US West Coast) time. Also, there''s more info at http://www.rubycentral.org/conference (e.g., the fact that this year we''re only taking credit cards, etc.). David P.S. Any LA area Rubyists around? I''ll be there this week doing Rails training. --

I might be a bit scarce this weekend -- I managed to score a late ticket to RubyConf! I''ll be in Denver hobnobbing with Matz. :) Roy

Hi -- Here''s the current status of RubyConf registration: I''m tinkering with the form.... We''re using an outside registration service for the first time, so I have to make sure I get it right, and it''s actually pretty complicated (I think). We got our credit card merchant account, so we''re good to go on that score. My current plan, barring

Hi, For those of you that attended RubyConf 2007, what were your impressions? Any more thoughts on JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby or Wuby? Regards, Dan

The South East Michigan Ruby User Group is hosting a free two day Ruby on Rails training course on Saturday March 11 and Saturday, March 25. No previous Ruby experience is necessary; however, some previous development experience is recommended. Starting from nothing we will cover the basics of the Ruby language and then create a web calendaring application over the course of two days. In the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ActiveRecord Extension 1337 - 0.0.1 is released! A 1337 speak module for ruby is released! It is bundled with the ActiveRecord extension activerecord_1337. This allows you to encode your application in l33t speak. You can use the L337 module standalone or use it bundled with the ActiveRecord extension. This plugin can be easily used as a Rails

A concrete example: We''re building a system to organize the information about workshops being held in various conventions. A convention has more than one workshop, and each workshop can be held in more than one convention. Also each workshop has a host, who is specific to a workshop being held in a specific convention. For example, Matz may host an "Introduction to Ruby"

My completely empty model (no validation callbacks etc etc) takes an average of 0.05 seconds to create, at least according to Benchmark.realtime{200.times{Message.create(:from => "me@here.com", :message_type => ''email'', :subject => "hello", :body => "goodbye", :sent_at => Time.now)}}/200 That''s a little slower than

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Fyi, the RailsConf ticket has been traded. Thanks to all the people who expressed interest! I''m glad I offered a trade in addition to just offering to sell the ticket! It was a great experience, and I got to meet a lot of people I think I''ll be working with, including Sarah Mei (the person I''m sending to the conference). If the logistics work out, I''ll be

Hi all, At RubyConf this year I talked about win32-mmap with Patrick Hurley and Ara Howard. Ara mentioned that Guy''s version of mmap (for Unix) contains some string-like methods that let you access pieces of the view like a string. Patrick and I came up with this (which requires the latest windows-pr in cvs so that we can use a more flexible version of memcpy, as well as some

> -----Original Message----- > From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org > [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of > Zach Dennis > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:12 AM > To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects > Subject: [Win32utils-devel] rubygems > > > Dan, > > What are your thoughts on packaging of all the