Sponsorship Details

For full details on becoming a sponsor for the Canda on Rails conference, please visit our conference details page for more information. If you are interested in participating in our free media sponsorship, view all the details here.

Platinum Sponsor

• Inimit Innovations Inc. is a leading open source provider. Specializing in Ruby on Rails and PHP development architecture ontop of MySQL and PostgreSQL technology. Inimit's talented team of design and development experts built the Canada on Rails website you are visiting right now. Utilizing AJAX, PostgreSQL, within a CSS layout, Inimit provides organizations with simple, elegant interface design.

Silver Sponsor

• E-xact Transactions E-xact is a leading provider of fast, secure and accountable online transaction solutions. Since 1998, we've been at the forefront of the emerging world of online exchange, with solid and secure transaction processing systems and superb customer service.

Media Sponsors

• VanRuby otherwise known as the Vancouver Ruby Association, is a local convergence of Ruby developers who meet together every month to discuss the latest enhancements and technologies in Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Vancouver Web 2.0 Forum hosts monthly meetings focused on Web 2.0 concepts and methodologies.

• Ruby on Rails Podcast with host Geoffrey Grosenbach feeds the Rails community with a super-agile way for you to get the inside scoop on what's what in the world of Rails. Talking about news related to Rails development community. The podcast features guests from the Rails core development team, major community sites such as A List Apart, upcoming Rails authors, and many other notables using Rails as their technology of choice.

• RubyForge is the single repository for the Ruby programming langauge and the Ruby on Rails framework. Directly integrated with the GEM packaging system, RubyForge has been extremely important to the growth of the Ruby and Rails communities. With over 1,200 projects hosted and over 5,000 registered members utilizing this site, RubyForge is the one stop shop for any type of Ruby project.

• o3 magazine is a monthly electronic publication focused on open source solutions in Enterprise Data Networking environments. Monthly columns include Security, Internet, Web Technologies, Networking, Network Applications, Network Security and Open Source Business. o3 is available free of charge from o3magazine.com.

• Planet Argon is a small Rails development and hosting company committed to providing our clients with quality solutions, service and support. Planet Argon is located in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon.

• The Pragmatic Bookshelf features books written by developers for developers. As development gets more and more difficult, the Pragmatic Programmers will be there with more titles and products to help programmers stay on top of their game.
  Their hugely popular Agile Web Development with Rails is available directly from their website and fine bookstores everywhere.

• Software Developer's Journal magazine is the most popular magazine for professional programmers and developers in Poland. We publish news and professional articles concerning the software world.

• ObjectiveView, The Journal for Professional Software Developers. Issue #9 covers Alex Ruiz on AspectJ, Richard Vaughan on AJAX, Amy Hoy introduces Ruby, Obie Fernandez - Ruby on Rails, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Specs are Bad!, Kevlin Henney - Abstraction - Down on the Upside, Scott Ambler - Glacial Development :-)!, Ken Pugh - Prefactor and be Agile

• Artima Developer is an online community where developers learn from experts in the software industry as well as interact, share information, and learn from each other. Artima Developer provides in-depth technical articles, interviews with shakers and movers in the software world, targeted news, interest groups, weblog communities, book chapters, discussion forums, and more.

• Manning Publications is an independent publisher specializes in computer and technical books for professionals --programmers, developers, system administrators, designers, architects, business managers and others. Since 1994, Manning has built its reputation as a publisher of the highest quality technical books.

• Contrary to countless reports, the mainframe is not dead and won't be for a long time. In fact, up to 80 percent of the nation's data is being stored and processed on mainframe computers, With that in mind, EOSJ is dedicated to providing useful, reliable, and interesting information on a wide variety of topics directly relevant to IT professionals using IBM zSeries and S/390 systems.

Technology

• Ruby on Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups. Watch this Ruby on Rails to find out why Rails is the fastest growing framework in the industry.
  

• Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.