The super-productive new way to develop web applications!

We've all come to accept the tedious grunt work that comes with developing database-backed web applications: the endless XML configuration files that duplicate the same information over and over, which we then must duplicate again in our program code. But does it really have to be that way? Ruby on Rails answers that question with a resounding "NO"!

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that breathes new life into web application development. Ruby on Rails is written in the Ruby programming language and is so good, that developers are switching from Java, PHP, and Python just to use it.

This presentation will introduce you to Ruby on Rails.

Curt Hibbs is a senior software developer in Saint Louis, Missouri with over 30 years experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. With a keen (and always searching) eye for new methods and technologies to make his work easier and more productive, he has become very active in the Ruby development community.