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Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Ben Hughes shows off message_block, a gem which simplifies generating flash and error messages. Additionally, Ben discusses how to test gem development using Cucumber and Cukigem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

People are drawn to Ruby by its beautiful syntax, and CoffeeScript brings that same joie de vivre to Javascript. John Lynch shares his experience using CoffeeScript for both web and mobile app development. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Patrick Crowley dives into the world of mobile app development and shows how to use the jQTouch framework to quickly build awesome mobile-optimized web apps. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Steve Ross gives an introduction to behavior driven development using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec. This is a practical how-to for developers who have not yet integrated behavior driven development into their workflow. Bonus content: download slides and view notes from this talk.

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling.

Scott Motte talks about iPhone development using the Titanium Mobile framework, including how to build a basic app. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.