Or at least you can watch videos I’ve selected for busiest men:


name: Reasons behind Ruby
duration: 31 minutes
description: introductory speech from Yukihiro Matsumoto, father of Ruby where he speaks about Ruby, its future, and community in general without any technical stuff.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/matzs-keynote.html]

name: Fork Ruby
duration: 48 minutes
description: speech from Dave Thomas that helped write Agile Manifesto, and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide. He share thoughts about possible ideas for Ruby language and its development.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/keynote.html]

name: Ruby 1.9: What to Expect
duration: 50 minutes
description: Dave Thomas and David Black author of popular book Ruby for Rails, Ruby core contributor and the creator and maintainer of RCRchive show to us differences between Rubys with 2 irb windows step by step.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-19-what-to-expect.html]

name: Recovering from Enterprise
duration: 45 minutes
description: Comparison between Ruby and Java worlds from Ruby, and Ruby on Rails contributer Jamis Buck. He describe fundamental differences between Java and Ruby and his mistakes, and ways to avoid them. Also provide ideas how to write in real Ruby and not in Java with Ruby syntax.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/recovering-from-enterprise.html]





Next conference will be held on 13-14 March of 2009 in Salt Lake City.
See details on official site: [http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/]

here you will find just quick-and-dirty hints how to use Ruby on Rails on Debian GNU/Linux platform

ruby and RoR installation

# apt-get install ruby

install ruby gems [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems]
# apt-get install rubygems

then don’t use ‘rails’ Debian package because it doesn’t work with gem and so gem will not know about it.
you should use gems for that:
# gem install rails –include-dependencies

if you located behind a firewall, export following value before gem using:
HTTP_PROXY=http://[username]:[password]@[proxyserver]:[port]

if you use some IDE like NetBeans [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBeans]with Ruby on Rails extension than after installing of ruby and rubygems packages
you can use NetBeans to install ruby extensions

installation of gems that require building of native extensions

some gems are simple set of ruby scripts and then can be just installed
some gems contain source code c/c++ and so before installing of such gems you should have:

**development environment
# apt-get install build-essential

**ruby development header files
# apt-get install ruby-dev

**header files of library that you want to build

for example: you want to have ruby driver for postgresql DB
# apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.3
# gem install postgres

enjoy it ..