ruby

Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud

In this talk, I am going to briefly talk about “what cloud is” and highlight the various types of cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). The bulk of the talk will be about using the fog gem using IaaS. Fog is a ruby cloud services library. I will discuss fog concepts (collections, models, requests, services, providers) and …

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A Polyglot Heroku

Over the past year, Heroku has expanded by going polyglot and supporting languages like Java, Clojure, Python, Node.js, and Scala in addition to Ruby. In this session, we will discuss major updates to the platform and our emphasis on making the Ruby developer experience even better. We’ll leave plenty of time at the end for …

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Getting Started with Ruby on Cloud Foundry

Learn how you can quickly deploy your Ruby applications to Cloud Foundry. Jennifer Hickey demonstrates deployment of both Sinatra and Rails apps without modifying a single line of code. She will also show some new techniques for accessing Cloud Foundry services from your Ruby code. You will see some new tools for interacting with your …

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cloud computing software development resource

Software Engineering for Software as a Service Free Online Course

UC Berkeley is offering a free online Software Engineering for Software as a Service course that will start in February 2012. This course teaches the engineering fundamentals for long-lived software using the highly-productive Agile development method for Software as a Service (SaaS) using Ruby on Rails.