Hot on the heals of last month’s analog blog, here’s this month’s:
- RailsCamp number 3 selling fast!
- JRuby 1.1RC3
- Sapphire = fork of Ruby
- MacRuby - Apple trying to make Ruby even more of a first-class development language
- modrails - Apache module to run Rails
- has_finder plugin is so brilliant that it’s been merged into edge Rails
- Rails core team reshuffle, including a few who’ve left
- A good explanation of the internals of Rubinius
- Steve Hayes says current BackgroundDRb works well, in spite of shambolic documentation
- If you’ve got a hosting environment you know you’ll be using, make sure you try out stuff like this before you build around it!
- Time travel plugin
Our talks for the evening were:
Ben Teese gave a talk and demo of using Flex with Rails. It all looks pretty straightforward, largely thanks to Rails to_xml method making it pretty easy to spit out data in a format that Flex likes.
Marcus Crafter gave a quick rundown on the recent Rubinius Sprint which was a resounding success. Rubygems now works with Rubinius, so you can find out which of your favourite gems don’t!
Mike Bailey gave a demo of Deprec 2. It’s not backwards compatible, but it now supports Monit, plus newer versions of Ubuntu. It’s also a lot neater and easier to extend.
Thanks, as always, to ThoughtWorks for hosting and feeding us pizza, and thanks to Ryan Allan for organising the talks.
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