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Jonathan Badger explores Newick format trees, and how to manipulate them using his Newick-ruby gem. 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.

Nic Benders will show you what's needed for building a hosting environment for production applications. The focus will be on selecting server hardware, picking a Linux Distro, and getting your Rails app running. Bonus content: download the slides 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.

Yehuda Katz returns to San Diego with a report on the latest developments with the Ruby on Rails web application framework. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in Ruby without having to pay the cost of using a bridge is now a reality. This is an important milestone for Ruby, Apple and the Ruby community. Matt Aimonetti will explain the implementation, show how to build desktop applications with MacRuby & HotCocoa, and discuss why Ruby developers should add this new tool to their utility belt. Matt will also talk about the future of MacRuby. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

John Bresnik discusses the ruby library for the Facebook API, Facebooker, based on his production experience building Facebook applications. Presentation includes general overview of the Facebook API, Facebooker specifics, as well as code examples. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

In this episode, Tom Werner covers some of the basics of the ruby image library ImageScience. ImageScience is a wrapper for the FreeImage graphics library, and is a lightweight alternative to RMagick.