Ruby Conference 2006 – Day 3 (Sunday, 22 October 2006)
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
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Justin Gehtland presented the sole Rails-related talk, as he was presenting Streamlined. I’m quite impressed and would have loved to have known about this for my simple wedding guest list manager application that I wrote in Rails. The purpose of Streamlined is to fill in the stuff that’s necessary for the administrative work for a Rails application. It wholly rocks. By the new year, Streamlined will have a visual configuration mode for this.
While waiting for Sasada Koichi to set up, I suggested to Matz that perhaps something like RubyInline be included with the Ruby 1.9/2.0 release so that Transaction::Simple can dump singleton objects and the marshal format would be compatible between the various interpreters.
Sasada Koichi presented on the current state of YARV. He has recently gotten a job in Akihabara Sanctuary. The advances of YARV look impressive. He was running a Rails application on YARV with no problems. Nice.
John Lam reported on his Ruby/CLR bridge, which was started because he writes programs for his son’s birthday. Fascinating work, and amazing enough that Microsoft finally twisted his arms well enough for him to work on them to improve the CLR so that it better supports dynamic language. As someone—possibly James Gray—suggested at lunch: we’ve heard from three major platform vendors that they are taking Ruby very seriously. That rocks.
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