RailsConf 2007 Keynote: A peek at Rails 2.0

Enrique Delgado — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:03:00 -0500

RailsConf 2007 is well underway now. After a day of tutorials, we were welcomed by Chad Fowler, writer and fellow Pragmtic Studio Alumni. Chad had some cool things to say to the community, namely that we have an opportunity to have a good impact and he encouraged us and everyone to raise money for charity as a Rails community. Go to http://pragmaticstudio.com/donate to make your donation.

David Heinemeier Hansson kicked-off the conference with his keynote speech “A peek at Rails 2.0”. David spoke about some of the upcoming features in 2.0, but specifically said that 2.0 is not going to be a “magic unicorn”. I.e. not a re-write, but more like a progression of sorts; real and humble. I’m sure the screencast will g up soon at the rails site site.

Some of the features are:

namespaces in routes.
Default scaffold, will have a complete xml backend.
scaffold_resource will be just scaffold and it will be RESTful
Easy to connect to a REST interface, even with an isolated simple ruby file. “This stuff works now”. Active Web Service no longer bundled with 2.0, just Active Resource. “The answer is not SOAP, it’s active resource”
Breakpoints are back. Rails-debugger.
Debugger
HTTP performance though JS and CSS cache to make the browser make fewer connections also, asset hosts. Query cache.
Sexy migrations
The MIT license assumption.
Spring cleaning (all those deprecation warnings will become a reality)

More soon!

Gearing up for RailsConf 2007 in Portland!

Enrique Delgado — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:30:00 -0500

With only three days to go, I’ve been busy getting everything in place for my trip to Portland.

I spent some time reading through all the descriptions and presenter bios for each of the sessions in the conference. I’m excited to hear from some big names like Dan Webb, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Amy Hoy amongst others.

A buddy of mine pointed me to this conference-planning site. It’s pretty cool; this is my preliminary plan.

Keep an eye on my Flickr photostream for pictures of the conference :)

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RailsConf 2007 Keynote: A peek at Rails 2.0

Some of the features are:

Gearing up for RailsConf 2007 in Portland!