Columbus, Ohio - August 15-17 2008
EdgeCase brings you a conference demonstrating Ruby's place in the Enterprise. Hear from industry experts. The claims are real. Find out how to leverage Ruby on your next project.

Hotel Discounts Available

posted: July 14, 2008

We have secured a discounted hotel rate with the Hampton Inn and Suites in Polaris. Check the Venue page for more information.

More Talks Announced

posted: July 10, 2008

We are still announcing talks on the schedule page. Please check back often. We will be publishing the exact schedule soon so stay tuned.

Charles Nutter on JRuby

posted: June 30, 2008

Charles Nutter has agreed to come and speak about JRuby. He's the co-lead of the JRuby development team at Sun. Together he and the team have brought Ruby to the JVM. Come hear all about JRuby and how it can fit into your existing environment.

User Group Discounts Available

posted: June 30, 2008

Are you part of a local user group? If so, contact us and we can send you a discount code for $50 off the registration price.

Sessions Announced

posted: June 16, 2008

Thanks to some proding, we have published the rough draft of our sessions. We have many more coming so please stay tuned. For now, if you are looking for a sample of the fantastic content that we are going to have this year.

More Speakers Added

posted: June 16, 2008

We have announced a majority of our speakers. We have so many speakers, we have decided to extend erubycon to three FULL days. Check them out on the speakers page

Registration is open

posted: June 5, 2008

Registration is now open. Earlybird registration runs through July 4th for $199. If you are a part of a local users group (Ruby, Java, .NET it does not matter) get your discount code and save yourself $50. If you do not have one, feel free to contact us to get one.

Help us spread the word

posted: June 5, 2008

We have attendee and speaker badges available. Please help us get the word out about this event. Click on the "spread the word" link, and choose the right badge. Please link back to here and help make this an even better event.

Evan Light on testing JEE with JRuby

posted: June 1, 2008

We now have Evan Light who is going to be speaking about testing your Java applications with JRuby. He's had a lot of experience not only testing your vanilla applications, but isolating and testing your JEE components

Jim Weirich and Stuart Halloway to Speak

posted: May 5, 2008

Jim Weirich, Cheif Scientist at EdgeCase and Stuart Halloway CEO of Relevance, Inc, have both agreed to speak at erubycon again this year. We are excited to have them again this year and are looking forward to, not only great talks from them, but not-to-be-missed hallway conversations they both generate.

Microsoft to Host erubycon

posted: April 25, 2008

Microsoft has once again agreed to be a sponsor for erubycon this year. They will be hosting the conference at their offices in Columbus Ohio. We are very thankful for their continued support and look forward to having them host the conference. Many of you that joined us for the Columbus Ruby Brigade meeting during erubycon last year and remember what a nice facility they have.

Keynote Speaker

posted: April 25, 2008

Neal Ford, Meme Wranger and Software Architect for ThoughtWorks has agreed to keynote again this year. His keynote last year on Polyglot Programming was fantastic. We are extremely excited to have him keynote for us again this year.

Neal is one of the countries hardest working speakers, speaking at many of the national conferences throughout the year as well as being on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour.

Follow us on Twitter

posted: April 25, 2008

We have created a Twitter account for you to follow and get all the latest news about the conference. We will also be using this during the conference for people to keep up with conference activities as they happen.