RailsConf Europe 2008: impressions and highlights
I’m back in Madrid again after the RailsConf and I think it’s time to say something about it.
First off, the infrastructure provided by the conference was really great. The rooms, WiFi connection, food… Really well organized.
Now to the sessions, highlights:
Tutorials (Tuesday)
- Meta-programming Ruby for fun and profit (Neal Ford, Patrick Farley)
The old and [...]
RailsConf Europe 2008: heading to berlin!
The title says it already.
On monday I’ll be going to Berlin to attend this year´s RailsConf.
This will be my first one and of course my expectations are pretty high!
As usual, after the conference I’ll try and give a summary of what happened there, providing as much content as I can.
Anyone else’s going???
C u [...]
Mac OS X: Getting MySQL and Rails to work
So I couldn’t resist and bought myself a MacBook Pro! It’s my first week with my new toy and I’m really enjoying it.
But I need to do something useful with it so I started to prepare it to be my new development platform, starting with Ruby/Rails + MySQL: Here is where the fun begins!
After I [...]
Rails: Vulnerability on REXML
REXML, the XML library uses by many ruby apps, including rails, has a vulnerability that requires an immediate patch on whatever rails version you’re using.
Details and instructions on the official rails weblog, here.
But basically, this is what you need to do:
gem install rexml-expansion-fix
Then, require rexml-expansion-fix in your rails’s app environment.rb file.
Why I like Ruby #1: alias_method
So you found yourself in the need to override a method but still count on it’s old behaviour?
No problem! Override it with your new code, call super and…. Uh oh!! Suddenly this turned into a problem… Let me give some more context.
I was testing Ferret (and the acts_as_ferret plugin) in a project to provide full [...]
The biggest Rails event in latin america
Behold latin american railers!
This year we will have the Rails Summit Latin America on October, 15th and 16th, in São Paulo, Brazil.
It’s by far the biggest Rails event we’ve ever had, including many of the speakers that were present at RailsConf.
Fábio Akita is also one of the speakers and provides more details on his blog.
If [...]
Passenger (mod_rails) and problems with custom Apache installation
This week we started to test mod_rails in a couple of projects where I work on. One in production.
Of course it’s too early for any conclusions, but I just wanted to share a couple of problems you might find when the installer tries to compile the Apache module.
In our case, and I believe it is [...]
Euruko 2008: Materials available
As some of you know I went to the European Ruby Conf in Prague, this year.
The event was awesome and it’s good to know they finally made available the majority of the slides, here.
They also published Matz’s keynote, and more videos from the conference are being edited right now, so stay tuned to their home [...]
A couple of things from here…
It’s been some time since my last post but here I am! Where? In Spain, of course! Having a great time, I must say.
I arrived last week in Madrid and the past 2 weeks before that I spent basically packing my stuff. There is still some paperwork going on but everything is flowing well.
Besides this [...]
Passenger(mod_rails) released
Passenger(mod_rails) has been released.
The idea is to ease the pain on rails applications deployment. I tested myself and in less than five minutes I had my application working behind Apache!
I’m not going to say much here besides the fact that it seems like a really good option for rails deployment and people have been talking [...]
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