Peter, <br><br>A room for Ruby, ok<br><br>You can ask to Laurent Sansonetti If he can come to the Fosdem, to present RubyCocoa.<br><br>For the presentations in the room, some ideas ( I am a developer, so it's a list of presentation about the development :d )
<br><br>- Ruby & DSL ( with the metaprogramming ) ( sorry Peter :d )<br> How to write a small DSL<br> if you work with a compiled language, how to generate a source code ( write a source code to generate classes or a structure of database :d )
<br> How to be a smart devel ( generate source code with ruby ) <br><br>
- XML with Ruby<br> REXML, libxml, xpath, SOAP, XML Schema, XSLT ( ruby-xslt produces an extension with libexslt, to introduce some ruby code to the exslt engine ).<br><br>- Camping ( static website ) & Rails ( dynamic ) and MERB
<br>- small presentation of Mongrel ( directory handler, ... )<br>- Use ActiveRecord without Rails, <br>- How to create a gem with newgem, ...<br>- Very important BDD, RSpec, Runit, autotest, ...<br><br>About the administration with Ruby,
<br>- How to move Python or Perl to the trash can ? ( joke, I like Python :d )<br>- How to write a daemon with ruby ? ( for Windows, a NT Service ).<br><br>A good presentation with ruby-gtk2, ruby-qt4, or RubyFOX ?<br><br>
Regards, <br><br>Stephane, <br>