Day – 1

Common Observations:

- Above average demand for Flex developers…



Good Links:

- Railsguts.com – details of rails routing

- Development Question/Answer – http://stackoverflow.com/

- New Ruby News – http://ruby.alltop.com/

- New book due out in November – Talked with Steve (Author) – http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271824/



Version Control Talk:

- Idea of adding the ability to comment in Gems – Add a command to Gems called Log. On-loading, you would apply it. You would then be able to “Gem log push” and it would go up to a URL that cumulates all entries.

- Information in Gem Log will be a string containing Hash of PID, Time stamp, version, etc.

- Compatibility is always an unknown

- What information will be on rubyforge?

- Consensus to rid the community of plugins. The desire to move to version controlled Gems

- Should only work in DEV apps

- Mention of possibility of grant money through Ruby Central towards a resource to develop/track

* Application Opportunity to handle the relationships/comments/rating

**Update** This topic seemed to grab quite a bit of attention. The talk about this continued through-out the day. Strong opinions seem to be held about what information should be included, and this seemed to divide part of the group. At the end of the day, there was a demo of how this would work. The true future is unclear to me….



MVC Talk:

- Nothing huge came out of this….for me anyways



Apple Scripts

- Pulling information from the native OS applications into the app, and controlling native OS applications by the app – Very cool

- http://appscript.sourceforge.net/rb-appscript/examples.html



Views are Broken!!

- No direction to this talk

- Point of frustration was not well defined

- Most people seemed frustrated by the inconsistency of how views render across various browsers

- My view – this is inherent to not being able to control the client side. If this is a strong point of frustration, then people should invest in learning the “quirks” of CSS across the various browsers.

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