RubyConf: WrapUp

I started to list the session that I liked the most and I soon noticed that I was listing the whole RubyConf schedule! I learned a lot from the all the speakers and from the questions of the audience. I also have to mention that RubyConf is a more intimate conference than say JavaOne. At JavaOne, you are easily lost amongst the 15,000 developers and and marketers in attendance. RubyConf 2006 had about 300 hard core Rubyist in attendance, and me as an observer. Nathanial Talbott, of Terralien, reminded the audience that the first RubyConf, back in 2001, had roughly 30 participants and perhaps one or two of those where paid ruby practitioners.

Oh, I forgot to mention some Rails tips that I received during breakfast of the last day of the conference. I had breakfast with some rails developers from BraveNet. I asked them if they give tell me the key hint or tip that a new rails developers should be aware of. I was told told to never ever use namespaces in models, and that I should seriously think about using namespaces in controllers. Another general rails tip was to use routes to make pretty urls, as opposed to namespace controllers.

RubyConf was a great experience and I can’t wait to next year!

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