IBM have just wrapped up a new DB2 adapter that fixes a bunch of bugs, adds support for a range of features, and works with the rails -d setup to create a new Rails application straight for DB2. Check it out: A major milestone for DB2 on Rails.
Want to have a look at the entries for this year’s Rails Rumble? Take a look at this list of applications that were submitted and then ordered according to category. Good stuff.
Rails 2.2 is going to make it much, much easier to do internationalized sites. Check out Clemens Kofler’s sample app running live or peruse his code. Thread safety? Internationalization? What stock objections to Rails will we have left?!
Juggernaut is a combination of a small Ruby server, a Flash bridge, and a plugin that makes it easy to do server-side push systems in Rails. I played with this idea with Rich Killmer a few years ago and even made a small demo system to present at a conference, but never made it to the finish line of something releasable. So it’s fantastic to see that the guys behind Juggernaut did.
There are several Ruby / Rails related conferences coming up in the next few months. Some of these are smaller regional conferences, and some of them are larger conferences which have their own Ruby tracks. If you know of any additional events, please comment and I’ll add them to this list.
July 21-25 – OSCON in Portland, Oregon
This year O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention is sporting a nice looking Ruby Track with several advanced topics. Yup, this is at the Portland Convention Center, same place as Railsconf.
Cost: $1345 (sessions only)
August 1-2 – Ruby Nation in Herndon, VA
A Washington DC Regional area Ruby conference with a great location: right next to the Washington Dulles Airport.
Cost: $175
August 8-9 – Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville, AL
A southeast regional Ruby conference located just down the street from the Space Center (aka Spacecamp).
Cost: $199
August 15-17 – erubycon in Columbus, OH
A conference dedicated to Ruby’s place in the Enterprise, organized by EdgeCase.
Cost: $199
September 4-6 – Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, TX
A regional Ruby conference deep in the heart of Texas. They haven’t announced their speakers or opened registration yet, but I’m told they will shortly.
Cost: $250
September 20 – Windy City Rails in Chicago, IL
A day long Rails conference in Chicago covering the freshest topics in the Rails world put together by Chicago Ruby.
Cost: $99
November 17-21 – QCon in San Francisco, CA
InfoQ and Trifork (from JAOO) put together this annual San Francisco conference with a DSLs in Practice and Ruby for the Enterprise track that any Ruby programmer would probably enjoy.
Cost: $1,695 (sessions only)
Also worth mentioning:
If I’ve missed any conferences, please let me know and I’ll be happy to add them.
RailsConf Europe has opened the doors for registration. The conference is returning to Berlin, Germany from September 2nd through 4th. If you register before July 15th, you can save up to 150 euros.
Considering what a blow-out success we had at RailsConf in Portland just a few weeks ago, it’s hard not to be pretty darn excited about setting up in Berlin and extending that good atmosphere across the pond. Berlin was a great spot in September last year as well.
So I’m looking forward to meeting up with more from the European Rails communities. Hopefully the very large Danish delegation will make it down this year as well :).
RubyEnRails 2008 is a Dutch Rails conference happening on June 10th. They still have a few tickets left, so if you’re able to go, there’s still the option. Lots of good speakers there including Charlie from JRuby, Obie, and the Phusion Passenger guys. I’ll be doing a iChat Q&A session as well.
Gregg Pollack has made a great video with interviews of speakers and attendants at RailsConf as a way of giving people who weren’t there a taste of what it was like. The result is 36 minutes of video and really worth watching. Check it out.
I’m happy to announce that we finalized the keynote line-up for this year’s RailsConf and I can’t believe the great names we got (especially that last guy on the list, I hear he’s awesome :)):
This lineup is of course in addition to the wealth of wonderful sessions planned. RailsConf ‘08 is shaping up really nicely. We have a brand-new version of Rails (2.1) scheduled to premiere not long in advance of the show and a whole year of collective learning to digest. It’s never been a better time to be programming with Ruby on Rails.
A List A Part is featuring a special issue dedicated to Ruby on Rails. There’s Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails by Michael Slater and Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Dan Benjamin. Both articles serve as great introduction to what all the hoopla is about. Great stuff to forward to friends who might be interested, but still haven’t made the jump.
The session schedule for RailsConf is now available. A very packed lineup across Thursday through Sunday.
Also, the early bird deal is ending April 10th. After that, the price of admission will jump another $100. So if you’re planning to go, getting your ticket before April 10th would be an easy way to save a Benjamin.
Watch out, Railsters. The next big thing is going to be Cobol on Cogs.
Amazon has a cool article on how to use Active Resource as a consumer for SimpleDB through the AWS SDB Proxy for Rails.
Hongli and crew from Phusion have been hard at work for some time to fix the ease-of-deployment issue on Apache with their Passenger project. They now have a video that demos how simple it’ll be to install and get running with mod_rails. Check it out.
Update: Hongli has posted some promising performance benchmarks for mod_rails.
Hongli Lai has compared a dummy scaffold application from Rails 1.2 to Rails 2.0 and found the latter to be 30-50% faster. That’s great to see.
But what I think is even more interesting is the progress we’ve been making on performance optimizations for more substantial applications. Rails 2.0 made a lot of progress for applications with lots of assets and for ones with big routes.rb files. The forthcoming Rails 2.1 will move things forward even further.
UPDATE: Hongli also investigated memory consumption on 1.2 vs 2.0 and found 2.0 to be significantly slimmer. Nice!
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