(RailsConf - Portland, Oregon, May 29 to June 1, 2008)

Ruby on Rails experts Chad Humphries and Scott Barron will be presenting at RailsConf, the largest official Rails conference, in Portland, Oregon.

In their fourty-five minute presentation Barron and Humphries will provide a good day-to-day guide on how to best use DTrace on OSX Leopard to debug, profile, and gather more information about applications.

Humphries is a principal at EdgeCase, an 11-person Ruby software development firm based in Columbus, Ohio. In the past he worked with .NET and Java with Fortune 500 companies to help them evaluate and implement open-source technologies. He works in the Ruby open-source community on projects such as RSpec, and RubyFurnance.

Barron, a Rails Core Team member, is also active in the open-source community working on acts as state machine, RGTE, The Ruby DTrace Patch, and RTrace.

EdgeCase provides a full range of software development and mentoring services.