RailsConf 2008 is over and I’ve had some time to rest and recollect my thoughts on the sessions. Below is a quick summary of the main ideas I picked up in each session. Friday 5/30/2008 (Day 1) Joel Spolsky keynote – The UI should help the user. Entrepreneurs on Rails – Work will always come …
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RailsConf 2008
RailsConf 2008 officially starts tomorrow and I’m all ready to go. If you want to look for me, look for the Rails developer who doesn’t have a Mac (I have an older Dell). Thursday Schedule 7:30am – 8:00am Continental Breakfast 8:30am – 12:00pm Refactoring Your Rails Application 1:30pm – 5:00pm Refactotum: Contributing to Open Source …
Interesting Links #4
I’ve been scrambling this past week trying to close out a few projects before I start on some new ones. Here are a few links that came across my wanderings: Generating the code for an older version of Rails – A customer asked me how to generate a stock Rails application from an older release. …
Fail Loudly with osd_cat and autotest
A key to Test Driven Development is frequently run tests. These tests are used to judge the health of a project. Like in a hospital, when things deteriorate we have to be alerted right away. Ruby developers use autotest to monitor and run their test suite in the background. One problem with autotest is that …
Interesting Links #2
Was able to start to catch up on some developer links I had bookmarked this week: No True “mod_ruby” Is Damaging Ruby’s Viability On The Web – Peter Cooper wants to know why there isn’t there a good mod_ruby for Apache. Merb 0.5.0 is out – Hot on the tails of my last set of …