Scotland on Rails 2009

Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that Conference2009 will be held March 26-28 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

We are now accepting submissions. The closing date for submissions is December 1st 2008, so there’s still time! Please mail your plaintext proposals for 45 minute sessions to submissions@scotlandonrails.com.

Alternatively, if you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please mail sponsorship@scotlandonrails.com for a prospectus.

Lastly, if you wish to be notified when we open for registration, you can sign up on the site.

Come and enjoy all that Edinburgh has to offer (whisky! castle! volcano! ruby! whisky!) in March. We hope to see you there.

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 dates and CFP

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Proposals to speak at this regional conference are now being accepted. Please send your proposal to proposals@mtnwestrubyconf.org.

The submission deadline is midnight (MST) on December 31st, 2008.

There are sponsorship opportunities available as well. Please contact sponsorship@mtnwestruby.org if you are interested.

Please see mtnwestrubyconf.org/ for more details as they become available.

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Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1 released

Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1-preview 1:

This is a preview release of Ruby 1.9.1, which will be the first stable version of the Ruby 1.9 series. Try it out now and get an early taste of a modern, faster, multilingualized, and much improved Ruby with clearer syntax.

If you encounter any bugs or problems, please let us know via the official issue tracking system:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org

You can download the release from;

RubyConf 2008 is Sold-out

RubyConf 2008 is sold out

However, there is a waiting list you can join in case of cancellations.

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Voices That Matter 2008

Pearson Education is running a Voices That Matter Ruby conference this fall in Boston. The conference, from the same people who Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series, will give you a chance to meet and learn from those very same authors. Don't miss a chance to interact with so many Ruby professionals.

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