Nick Sieger: Gig: Speaking at RailsConf Europe 2007tag:blog.nicksieger.com,2005:TypoTypo2007-09-23T12:52:59+00:00John O'Sheaurn:uuid:c8ff0342-cd33-4942-a74e-fd169bba53b92007-09-23T12:52:59+00:002007-09-23T12:52:59+00:00Comment on Gig: Speaking at RailsConf Europe 2007 by John O'Shea<p>Hi Nick,
Great talk, any plans to make the demo source available?</p>
<p>John.</p>Nick Siegerurn:uuid:be1363d9-dfe0-443e-8248-93aa316228202007-09-14T05:33:00+00:002007-09-15T00:53:21+00:00Gig: Speaking at RailsConf Europe 2007<p>Speaking of keeping busy, <a href="http://www.railsconfeurope.com/cs/railseurope2007/view/e_sess/14961">I’ll be speaking</a> alongside my colleague <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/craigmcc/" title="Craig McClanahan's Weblog">Craig McClanahan</a> at <a href="http://www.railsconfeurope.com/" title="RailsConf Europe 2007 • September 17, 2007 - September 19, 2007 • Berlin, Germany">RailsConf Europe </a> in Berlin next week.</p>
<p>Sun is a Diamond Sponsor at RailsConf again, just like in Portland last May. Part of that sponsorship money pays for a brief keynote spot (filled by Craig) as well as a session or two. So no, I didn’t get my spot through an accepted proposal submission, but that doesn’t mean that the session is going to be a big <a href="http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/09/infoworld-bossies-close-to-my-heart.html">marketing shill</a>.</p>
<p>No, actually Craig and I are part of a small group at Sun that’s embracing Rails in a big way, and we’re going to be launching a site built mostly on Rails later this fall. We’re taking what we think are some novel approaches to building a Rails-based application and we thought we’d share some of those thoughts with you rather than drone on for the session about how great Sun is and what snazzy tools we make. (Although expect to see a subtle plug or two for Sun hardware and tools. Call it product placement rather than overt selling.)</p>
<p>I titled the session “Rails Hydra” because the central idea of the structure of our application is not one Rails app, but many. The UI and views don’t even talk to a database; instead they make use of ActiveResource and RESTful web services, talking to the models living in other Rails applications in the backend. One key point is we’re deploying .war files to JRuby running on Glassfish, thus avoiding headaches of morbidly multiplying Mongrel math. We’ll elaborate on this arrangement and talk about some of the other tools and tricks we’re using.</p>
<p>Also, Charlie, Tom and Ola will be there, so we’ll certainly have a JRuby summit at some point. Stop by and say hello!</p>