Latest Screencasts

Emanuele Tozzato gives a brief introduction to Redis, then demonstrates real-life database performance optimization with redis-object and how to manage background jobs using Resque. 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.

Machine learning and data mining have long been "black arts" because they require access to expensive computing clusters. Randall Thomas discusses machine learning and the problem spaces it can help solve. 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.

Let's face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It's slow, error prone, and a ton of work. What if you could import old data into a new app before it's finished? Normalize fields? Clean up old data? And migrate often? Patrick Crowley shows the way. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as well as a Master Master, or Multi-Master network. The talk will also cover the whys and when of database clustering. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

What do you do when third-party data vendors don't speak REST? Rob Kaufman discuss real-world techniques for importing and exporting data. (This talk was also given at RailsConf 2007.)

Dominic Damian talks about the different options available to you when deploying a Rails application. He covers areas such as servers, caching, database, and hosting.