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Just in case you didn’t know, I’ve began using Twitter. You can follow me at RubyHead, naturally…;)
NJRUG Meeting
I attended the second NJRUG meeting just past Wednesday. I got to see Eric Stolten’s excellent presentation on Ruby performance. I also got to present little that I know about Rack and the conversation afterward was just incredible as we were getting incredible ideas on what to do with Rack.
If you want the presentation files, you can download them from the group’s site at Google. Here’s the link. If you know me, I use S5 for all public presentations, so you can download my file and just open index.html in any browser.
If you’re in NJ, you HAVE to attend the next one as David may present on Cucumber.
Damn It, It Was A Dream!
It was beautiful.
People stopped using Internet Explorer. And yes, ALL versions. They built a feature into every router on the Net that will kill any and all packets to and from Internet Explorer. Microsoft announced that they have abandoned Internet Explorer.
I woke up to the news that Internet Explorer 8 is out. Talk about kick in the ass.
Rails Is Now 2.3.2
As promised Rails is now 2.3, or 2.3.2. I know it’s little weird, but this shouldn’t be news to anyone who know Rails, this is a norm.
A simple “sudo gem update” will install new version of the Rails. Ryan Bates already has a screencast out on the new version at http://railscasts.com/episodes/152-rails-2-3-extras. The most important thing is that you have to upgrade Phusion Passenger to 2.1.2 if you’re running the older version.
Here’s the announcement from Rails site:
Rails 2.3 is finally done and out the door. This is one of the most substantial upgrades to Rails in a very long time. A brief rundown of the top hitters:
Templates: Allows your new skeleton Rails application to be built your way with your default stack of gems, configs, and more.
Engines: Share reusable application pieces complete with routes that Just Work, models, view paths, and the works.
Rack: Rails now runs on Rack which gives you access to all the middleware goodness.
Metal: Write super fast pieces of optimized logic that routes around Action Controller.
Nested forms: Deal with complex forms so much easier.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve put together a complete guide for the Rails 2.3 release notes with much more information. Be sure to checkout the section on what was deprecated when you’re ready to upgrade your application.You install 2.3 with (the final version is marked 2.3.2):
gem install rails
If you’re running on Passenger, be sure to upgrade to 2.1.2 as well. Rails 2.3 doesn’t run on older versions of Passenger!We hope you’ll love it.
New Rails Magazine
Rails now has a magazine. You can download the digital version in PDF here. This first issue has an awesome set of articles.
It’s really interesting to see if a publication like this can survive. I for one will support this effort as much as I can.
Rails 2.3 Final Coming This Sunday?
I just learned that Rails 2.3 will be finalized this Sunday. I’ll try to get a summary of what’s new with this release.
Emerging Tech Conference in Philly
Had no idea this conference was going on until I got an email from Andrea. Below is the description:
This year’s Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (a.k.a. “Philly Emerging Tech” and “Philly ETE”) is set for March 26-27, just outside of Philadelphia.
This event always features great Ruby content. This year’s Ruby line-up includes:
– David Black, a local Rubyist and author of Ruby for Rails and The Well-Grounded Rubyist
– David Chelimsky, RSpec Lead Developer
– Corey Haines, of Pair Programming Tour (http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/) and “How I Got Started in Programming” Interviews (http://geekstorycorp.blogspot.com/) fame
– Brian Marick, Agile Manifesto co-author; author of Everyday Scripting with Ruby
– Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer, of the Rails Envy Podcast
– Nick Sieger, JRuby core team member
– Ezra Zygmuntowicz, creator of the Merb framework and co-founder of Engine Yard
The keynote speakers will be Andy Hunt (co-founder of The Agile Alliance, co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, and co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer); Jascha Franklin-Hodge ( CTO of Blue State Digital, which spearheaded Obama for America’s online initiatives); and Michael Tiemann, VP of Open Source Affairs for RedHat.
Other speakers include jQuery creator John Resig; Bill Dudney, author of Core Animation for the iPhone and co-author of iPhone SDK Development; Ed Burnette, author of Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform; and Jeremy Sydik, author of Designing Accessible Web Sites.
The cost is $290 per person. But there’s a “4 for the price of 3″ discount (that is, for 4 colleagues or friends — not necessarily from the same company — registered at one time), which brings the price down to $217 per person.
For more information and to register: www.phillyemergingtech.com
Let me know if you’re attending. Perhaps we can get that 4 for 3 price.
Merb, Rubinius and the Engine Yard Stack by Ezra
Here’s the link to the video. HD version is the only way to watch if you ask me.
