What I learned at the railsconf 5

Posted by jan Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:23:18 GMT

The railsconf 2006 is over and it was a amazing week here in Chicago. Around 500 attendees made the conference a huge success. Inspiraring Keynotes, interesting lightning talks and a amazing show by ‘Why the Lucky Stiff and the Thirsty Cups’.

But what did I learned ?

  • Developing Rails for some reason requires a PowerBook, at least 98% of all attendees were Apple Users
  • lighty is the default choice for deployment. ... at least if you don’t use mongrel
  • mod_proxy has to be fixed to make mongrel happy again
  • noone knows about X-Sendfile
  • FastCGI, first revived by rails again, is going to die soon with the emerge of mongrel
  • lighty’s config language is a DSL (Domain Specific Language, one of the buzz-words)
  • buzz-word bingo works, at least there where 3 bingos in DHHs keynote and the rails-core panel session
  • here in Chicago they know how to celebrate food

I’m looking forward to the next years railsconf. ... And I already have a idea for a nice talk.

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  1. arj Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:42:11 GMT
    Um, what's 'X-Sendfile', how does lighty make use of it, and how can I get at it from FCGI? I didn't find much on the forums or blogged here, but urls welcome :) Re: mod_proxy; it's key for us...gotta have something (jetty/tomcat) to handle the jsps. Re: FCGI; loving it with ruby service apps and rhtml. No rails at this time for us. Big fan!
  2. _why Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:43:21 GMT
    Jan, I'm sick that I missed meeting you. In fact, I wanted to talk to you about X-Sendfile even. :D Anyway, I love lighty. Way to innovate.
  3. Bob Aman Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:00:09 GMT
    Jan, glad we met at RailsConf. I didn't know about X-Sendfile either, but it's perfect for the project I'm currently working on, and I'll definitely be making use of it if I can figure out a way to only send it if lightty is the webserver. I assume most other webservers don't make use of it? More information would be great. Really happy that you came. Thanks!
  4. moo Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:28:56 GMT
    i'd like to download the audio or video record if someone have it. thanks
  5. Peter Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:57:55 GMT
    X-Sendfile sounds like the way to go... but does anybody know how to use it? I've started a Wiki topic with some basic info + a call for examples on rubyonrails.org: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSendFilesFast If you know something about using X-Sendfile, please share!
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