Better Ruby through Functional Programming by Dean Wampler – Dean Wampler is author of Programming Scala. He introduced functional programming concepts and how to implement them in Ruby.

Super-easy PDF Generation with Prawn and Prawnto by John McCaffrey – PDF generation is a complex feature and John described various types and recommended particular tools for each type.

Comics Is Hard: On Domains and Databases by Ben Scofield – Modeling certain domains with relational data stores breaks down quickly. Ben described two and briefly discussed SQL-less alternatives that work better.

UI Fundamentals for Programmers by Ryan Singer – Ryan advocated "designing first" when building applications and offered examples of design principles in action from his work at 37Signals.

How To Test Absolutely Anything (in Rails) by Noel Rappin – Noel is author of Rails Test Prescriptions. His talk was a practical walkthrough of how to test each application tier, even view testing and JavaScript testing.

Optimizing Perceived Performance by David Eisinger – David gave a humorous talk about an example Rails and jQuery application he built that demonstrates responsive user interface patterns. The dbdb application is on github.

Rails 3 Update by Yehuda Katz – Yehuda’s session was last. He discussed framework design in a general and how the Rails core team has addressed keeping Rails 3 easy to learn while adding new features. New features were discussed in brief and Yehuda mentioned that an alpha version of Rails 3 may be available in October.