Mar 4th, 2007
Ruby Forum Presentation at Google
On Thursday we presented at the SD Forum Ruby SIG, which is hosted at Google, about our experience as a startup using Ruby on Rails. We covered the important technical aspects of Competitious, the decision process we went through when choosing Ruby on Rails, and went over some specific interesting aspects of our code. It was well received and we fielded a lot of great questions. We provided a link below to the PowerPoint slides for those interested in the slides, and will be separately posting about our acts_as_loggable plugin, in which we took an interesting approach to solving several problems associated with logging all actions on a service for the purpose of displaying to users.
We want to thank Greg Coladonato for inviting us to present and hosting the forum.
You can find the slides from our presentation here.
Thanks for posing the slides for those of us who couldn’t make it to the talk. I am looking forward to trying out the acts_as_loggable plugin. I was just about to implement something similar for my site.
Update: I have created a project over at ruby forge to host the acts_as_loggable plugin. We will upload the source code there as soon as we have a chance to repackage it.
I just came across your presentation when I searched for a way to perform AJAX calls in Rails without hitting the server (and without needing to deal with raw JavaScript). I thought of something like executing RJS templates from inside a view, which is not possible.
It seems that you have a solution for that problem, but I don’t understand what is hidden behind those define_js_template/render_js_template methods. Would it be possible to give some more explanations on this topic? Thanks in any case for the interesting presentation.
Just wanted to throw in my two cents and note that I can’t wait to hear about acts_as_loggable.
I am looking forward to the plugin as well. Any change of plan not to post it?