A note to the interested reader: These are the raw notes I jotted down at RailsConf Europe 2006. They are probably misleading, out-of-context and not particularly useful if you didn’t attend the sessions. Nevertheless, enjoy.
David Heinemeier Hansson
- Textmate as a presentation tool
- Later on 1.2.0rc1
- REST, SimplyRestful
- 5 months since last release
- next release after 1.2: 2.0(!)
- Rails is not about inventing your own style
- Demonstration of SimplyRestful
- ActiveResource
- SimplyHelpful: clearing up the view
- assumptions about partial names
- new development happens on plugins
- Flower?
Kathy Sierra: Creating Passionate Users
- Passion
- Passion is not rational
- High-resolution experience
- Don’t focus on the tool, but what to do with it
- Conversational beats formal
- Flow
- If you want them to RTFM, write a better FM.
Evan Henshaw-Plath: Integrating Asterisk and Rails
- PHP of telephony: ugly and hackable
- Evil apps: “To enlarge your penis, press three.”
- call routing and transcoding platform
- configuring Asterisk—sendmail.cf
- RAGI bridges Asterisk and Ruby
- RAI is a RAGI fork under active development
- http://rai.idapted.com
Jamis Buck: Cutting Edge Capistrano
- What is Capistrano
- the need to manage/deploy a cluster
- Version 1.2 this morning
- Restricting scope to single machines, roles
- remote execution (invoke, shell tasks)
- capistrano-ext
- watch_load
- uptime
- Future
- third-party extensions
Marcel Molina, Jr.: Sharing RJS: Reuse at application level
- Introduction
- David has and belongs to many Hanssons
- Refactoring RJS code to avoid duplication
- various approaches
- refactor to helper… DON’T
- monkeypatch… DON’T
- History of RJS
- conclusio: Reuse RJS snippets with
<<, made for JavaScript inclusion. - Bonus: reuse RJS elsewhere
- Don’t use DOM if CSS is enough
David A. Black: Relational Database Engineering and Rails
- Are Rails databases well engineered?
- Lessons from REST and CRUD
- Return to the protocol is not a step back
- Normalization is good
- never heard of with respect to ActiveRecord
- good
- ActiveRecord databases are application databases
- REST and CRUD converge
- 80%-baked database engineering
- first normalize, then AR-ify
Thomas Fuchs: Adventures in JavaScript testing
- http://mir.aculo.us
- use
alert()only when appropriate - unit-testing JavaScript
- using Rake to automate tests with the javascript_test plugin
- uses WEBrick
- BDD, rspec-like API, too
- Tools:
- Firebug
- Venkman (can profile)
- Safari Web Inspector
- Drosera
- test on all browsers you want to support
- #prototype on freenode.net
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