Final Boss: Ruby/Rails in the Video Game Industry

Did you know there are video games, both console and handheld, that talk directly to a Rails stack to provide functionality, both in-game and on the web? Did you know that there are Ruby/Rails services running 24/7/365 to process game data for over 40 million players around the world? You will learn about the code, methodologies and tools used to make all of this happen (and gain 5000 Rails XP)!

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1. Final Boss: Ruby, Rails and Video Games David Czarnecki (@czarneckid) Ruby Midwest 2011
2. @czarneckid http://github.com/czarneckid/
3. @agoragames http://github.com/agoragames/
4. Safari: LOL
5. @mlg
6. 60,000,000+ players
7. 1.3 Petabytes of Data in 2011
8. Wii talks to Rails for Guitar Hero < 5
9. Problem: Scaling Rails?
10. Approach: Just Add Scaling
11. Approach: Christmas is cancelled :(
12. “After Guitar Hero 3's launch and the associated influx of data that was burying us, I remember telling a random person that had just bought Guitar Hero 3 at GameStop not to go online.”
13. Process
14. Problem: Process
15. Approach: Early
16. Approach: Documentation
17. Approach: Websites “done”?
18. Approach: Employ “Overhead”
19. Game Integration
20. Problem: Data
21. Approach: Queue
22. Approach: Optimize for ...
23. Approach: Equality
24. Problem: Leaderboards
25. Approach: MySQL Leaderboards
26. Interlude: New Years Eve 2010
27. Approach: Leaderboard https://github.com/agoragames/leaderboard/
28. External Services
29. Problem: Integration
30. Approach: Force
31. Approach: Timeout
32. Approach: Cache
33. Monitoring and Infrastructure
34. Problem: Overseer
35. Approach: runit
36. Approach: Munin
37. Approach: Infrastructure Validation
38. Approach: Named Services
39. Approach: Death Star x2
40. #barcraft
41. Problem: MLG Providence
42. Approach: First 25 @s @CzarneckiD I can haz code plz?
43. @czarneckid http://speakerrate.com/events/1142-ruby-midwest-2011