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Peter Gumeson shows off his compass-html5-boilerplate gem, which uses Compass to make it easier to integrate the HTML5 Boilerplate template into Rails apps.

Jonathan Badger explores Newick format trees, and how to manipulate them using his Newick-ruby gem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Ian Young introduces his first gem, a human-friendly DSL for regular expressions. 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.

Chris McCann demonstrates Ruleby, a Ruby implementation of a rules engine based on the Rete algorithm. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Patrick Crowley talks about Trucker, a new gem that makes it easier to migrate legacy data into Rails apps. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Scott Motte introduces us to the document-oriented database MongoDB and shows how to use MongoDB as an alternative to MySQL and ActiveRecord using the MongoMapper gem. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rob Kaufman talks about his new Ruby 1.9 or Bust project. The project is dedicated to updating popular Ruby gems to be Ruby 1.9 compatible, and is seeking donations to hire a full-time developer to work on porting gems. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Kevin Clark takes a break from Powerset to give a full-throttle talk on using Merb as a JSON-RPC service, god, gem2rpm, and heckle.

Jordan Fowler gives a presentation on Amazon's S3 service. He also covers the AWS::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina Jr.