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LA Ruby Conference 2010

This is the second year for the LA Ruby Conference. Come and join us to learn about ruby and related technologies and software development practices that might change the way you do your job.

Registration for the conference is open. The conference on Saturday is $199.00. The training workshops on Friday are $60.00 each.

February 19-20, 2010
Holiday Inn
Burbank, CA

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Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap

Everything in Ruby is an object.. but what is a ruby object? What does it look like? Where does it live? How is it born and when does it die? This talk will cover the implementation of the object heap and garbage collector in Ruby 1.8, with a focus on tools and techniques to understand memory usage, find reference leaks, and improve the performance of your ruby applications.