RailsConf – Day 3 – Lightning talks

Brian C – DNC

http://github/dnclabs

- client_side_validations – gem that does client side validation for rails
- takes AR validations – serves them via json – used by jquery.validate

how to kill rails
github.com/michel
bad practices by a few rails developers
Don’t reduce yourself to $20/hr, stick to your price, delivery quality
Communication is important!

Democracy.com
Raimond Garcia
Revolutionize Democracy
Parsed Congress web page – created a prototype on heroku in 48 hours
legal palitical party in spain – “partido de internet”

What’s new in RSpec-2
David Chelimsky
in beta right now
Old rspec won’t work with Rails 3
doesn’t work with rails < 3 (yet)

http://github.com/rspec

$rspec spec
modularized, rspec-core is built on micronaut

Surveyor gem
Mark Yoon
Surveys in your Rails app
write surveys in DSL
exmaple Kitchen Sink survey
dates, ranges, plck any, grids, multiple answers
needs: admin ui, validations in UI, Rails3 support

http://github.com/breakpointer/surveyor

MySQL is awesome

@igrigorik
Don’t believe all the NoSQL hype

http://bit.ly/bgi1Wf

more flexibility in the relational model
em-proxy gem – tcp level proxy
- used to rewrite SQL queries on the fly

Michael Hartl
railstutorial.org
Joy of publishing online
goal – write a source file, publish HTML & PDF with syntax highlighting & linking to other sections
PolyyTeXnic
HTML & PDF stay in sync

Jake Scruggs
@jakescruggs
ActiveMQ & ActiveMessaging
Mostly a Java shop, so not Resque, delayed job
sending messages is easy
pass id’s NOT serialized objects
Tips:
- Tell ActiveMessage to not be greedy
- Namespace your queues
- Name your pollers
- Double Kill – Die Poller Die – script/poller run vs script/poller start

Greg Nelson
foreign assistance

http://bit.ly/RwandaOnRails

Jim Rumsick (Big Tiger)- HashRocket
Improv – Comedy to Coding
Programming is about communication

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