Ruby on Rails Oceania

Here’s the analog blog from the June meeting (on the 1st of July – a slight anomaly).

• YOW Conference is on in Melbourne in December
  • Can probably get a user group discount
  • About everything: agile/dev/etc
  • Obie Fernandez
  • Corey Haines
• Machinist 2 Beta is coming soon!
• MongoMapper has been updated, named scopes working.
• DataMapper has hit 1.0
• extjs is now called sencha
  • focus on touch interfaces
  • have hired dmitry from raphael, and David Kaneda from jqtouch
• Pickle has DataMapper support.
  • Pickle: useful step definitions for Machinist (or FactoryGirl) and Cucumber
• RailsConf 2010 happened
• Rails 3 betas are available
  • Rails 3 full release is coming soon.
  • Don’t use it with Ruby 1.9.1
• Rubinius now works
  • Speed is sometimes faster than MRI, sometimes slower.
  • It’s definitely usable.
  • Runs some C extensions.
• RubyConf 2010 in New Orleans
  • But it clashes with Rails Camp Perth. They suck.
  • 11th-13th November.
• Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote a rant about removing routes
  • DHH wasn’t particularly supportive
• GitHub Organisations
  • Don’t need to create a user for organisations, create an organisation instead.
  • Has read-only support, fixing deploy key issues.
  • Fixing cloning repos with collaborators.
• Rails Camp Perth tickets will be released in the next few weeks.
  • 12th-15th November
  • ~$200/ticket
  • It’s a lot of fun.
• PhatRails
  • Patch for 2.3 by Mike Perham
  • Runs Rails inside EventMachine.
  • One process can respond to multiple requests at once.
  • Similar patches from Ilya Grigorik?
• Postgres 9 is about to come out
  • streaming replication
  • hot-standby backups
• Lunchtime brown-bags for those who can’t always make it to the evening meets (or are interested), get in touch with James Ladd – james_ladd at hotmail dot com.