Kevin McConnell
Lead Programmer, 37signals
Kevin is a programmer at 37signals, where he writes a lot of Ruby, and sometimes a bit of Go. When he’s not doing that, he enjoys making electronic music and hiking.
Distributing Rails applications with ONCE
ONCE aims to be the easiest way to install and manage web applications. Built on the experience of shipping products like Campfire and Fizzy, ONCE also aims to make distribution easier for you as a Rails developer, by providing most of what’s needed to make your applications simple to self-host.
In this talk we’ll cover what the ONCE platform offers, and how it works. And more importantly, the steps you can take to make sure your own Rails applications are ONCE-compatible.