Topic: Using Rails to Create an Enterprise App: A Real-Life Case Study

Date & Time: Thursday, October 18, 2007, 7pm-8:30 pm

Speaker: Dave Keener
David Keener is an IT professional, consultant and writer with over 20
years of experience. He is currently a web architect for America
Online, where he has just completed and fielded AOL's first enterprise
Rails app for internal corporate use. For more information on David
Keener, check out his blog at www.keenertech.com (yes, he knows it's
an ASP.NET site and not a Rails site, but he's too busy to do anything
about it right now).

Location:
The George Washington University
Media and Public Affairs Building
Room B02
805 21st Street NW
Washington, DC
http://www.gwu.edu/~map/hmap/index.cfm?bldg=103

Topic Description:
It seems that most Rails apps are so-called "green-field"
applications, i.e. - brand-new applications with no legacy baggage.
Find out what it takes to use Rails to create an enterprise corporate
application. This real-life case study of an actual AOL development
effort will focus on how successful the effort was; the pitfalls that
were encountered and the solutions that were devised. The discussion
will also include tips for dealing with one of the nastiest legacy
databases you'll ever encounter.