The second day at Rails Edge
The second day seemed to go a lot faster than the first. Rather than going from 8:00-8:30 PM (like yesterday), we finished up at 6:00 PM today. And the sessions were great: Creating Rails Plugins, The Presenter Pattern, The Deployment Golden Path, Reusing RJS, Red-Green-Refactor, Testing Rails Apps, and Building View Frameworks. These are all things that benefit me, with the exception of The Presenter Pattern, which is nothing more than a concept that has potential to end up in Rails. I took a few pictures, but if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. However, you’ve yet to see one. So here’s the conference:
We’re sitting about two tables back from the front, and off to the right-hand side just a bit. There are about nine people per table, and in between sessions, each table is just a ring of silver Macbook Pros with shiny, glowing apples. At least I didn’t have to worry about my PC getting stolen. These sessions are far from beginner level, which I’m really glad about. Some of the things they talk about and demo are far over my head right now, but I find so much motivation in that. Watching professional Rails developers write code is very inspirational, as their techniques heavily take advantage of object-orientated concepts and Ruby itself. They absolutely refuse to repeat anything anywhere in the code. I do my best to stay DRY, but there are definitely times when I let it slip.
Tomorrow’s Sessions
- Buried Treasure: Hidden Rails Tips (as if I didn’t learn enough already)
- The Streamlined Framework
- Rinda and DRB
- Amazon’s S3 Web Services
- Rake: Building up Ruby
- Rails Production Tips & Tricks
I think they’re taking it somewhat easy tomorrow, but I know they’ll cover a lot of things I won’t know, which is again, great. Once I sort out some of my notes and such, I’ll probably post specifics about some of the talks.