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Frozen Rails Talk Proposal Template (http://2012.frozenrails.eu/)
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Adam Hawkins

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My name is Adam Hawkins. I'm a rubyist, rails guy, and general open source nerd. I love to contribute to open source projects I use as well as write my own. I scratch my own itches through my open source work. When I'm not coding I travel and enjoy trance in very heavy doses.

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Expected Time: 30 minutes

Rails provides many integrations points. A lot of them seem like black magic. This talk aims to clear it up. It will demonstrate that most of what gems do is standard. However sometimes it will get fancy. This talk will cover some edge cases and complicated integrations as well.

  • Connect your gem using a Railtie
  • Bundle app/controllers/views/assets
  • Using ActiveSupport.on_load callbacks
  • Generating one off rails applications for testing your rails independent gems
  • Edge cases in the rails plugin generator
  • Testing engines/gems
  • Gemming best practices
  • Integrating with other common gems (ex: Resque)

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This talk sums up my experience writing a ton of gems for business and open source users.

Here's my list:

  • Cashier (Tag based caching for Rails)
  • HttpLog (Log incoming HTTP requests to MongoDB)
  • Harness (Metric Logging using ActiveSupport::Notifications)
  • Radium.io (Integration for our Radium.io platform)
  • A ton of various gems for internal and private use
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