The Well-Grounded Nuby

If you get the fundamentals right, the rest of Ruby falls into place nicely. In this talk, Ruby developer and author David A. Black takes you on a tour of a large handful of Ruby features and techniques chosen to help you understand the essence of the language, and to avoid common pitfalls that sometimes hold people up when they're trying to master Ruby. All are invited: nubies, Rubyists who want to cement the foundations, and anyone who works with Ruby developers and wants to help them along the way.

David A. Black is a Lead Developer at Cyrus Innovation in New York, and has been using and writing about Ruby for almost twelve years. He is the author of THE WELL-GROUNDED RUBYIST (Manning Publications, 2009), a Ruby standard library contributor, and one of the founding directors of Ruby Central, Inc., the parent organization of RubyConf and RailsConf. David is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and is a highly experienced teacher and Ruby/Rails trainer.