http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2007/09/14/gig-speaking-at-railsconf-europe-2007 en-us 40 <p>Hi Nick, Great talk, any plans to make the demo source available?</p> <p>John.</p> Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:52:59 +0000 urn:uuid:c8ff0342-cd33-4942-a74e-fd169bba53b9 http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2007/09/14/gig-speaking-at-railsconf-europe-2007#comment-299 <p>Speaking of keeping busy, <a href="http://www.railsconfeurope.com/cs/railseurope2007/view/e_sess/14961">I&#8217;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 &#8226; September 17, 2007 - September 19, 2007 &#8226; 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&#8217;t get my spot through an accepted proposal submission, but that doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s embracing Rails in a big way, and we&#8217;re going to be launching a site built mostly on Rails later this fall. We&#8217;re taking what we think are some novel approaches to building a Rails-based application and we thought we&#8217;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 &#8220;Rails Hydra&#8221; because the central idea of the structure of our application is not one Rails app, but many. The UI and views don&#8217;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&#8217;re deploying .war files to JRuby running on Glassfish, thus avoiding headaches of morbidly multiplying Mongrel math. We&#8217;ll elaborate on this arrangement and talk about some of the other tools and tricks we&#8217;re using.</p> <p>Also, Charlie, Tom and Ola will be there, so we&#8217;ll certainly have a JRuby summit at some point. Stop by and say hello!</p> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:33:00 +0000 urn:uuid:be1363d9-dfe0-443e-8248-93aa31622820 Nick Sieger http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2007/09/14/gig-speaking-at-railsconf-europe-2007 java rails railsconf gig http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/trackback/288