The conference has just finished, and the first thing to say “it’s a must go conference for all of you developing with Rails”. These 3 days were plenty of good information and teaching. You can read a lot of things on feeds or blogs, train yourself about every thing in Rails but nothing worth the real contact with the community. 500 750 participants but only 2% of french people “mais ou est la communauté francaise rails ?” and 95% of Mac users :D. Berlin is quite pretty city to visit, that’s was a good plus :).

I will write a serie of posts about some interesting conferences I attended to :

• Scaling rails app
• Security (website)
• Capistrano 2.0 (you should use it)
• RSpec and its stories (good ideas, the best is coming)
• Tavnav and other italian widgets (DRY)
• Rails 2.0 RC (not a revolution, but many nice evolutions)

and maybe another one about feedback of business creation around rails app.

Other subjects I have watched but will not write about:

• Good practises (no big stuff)
• Ferret (previous post)
• Presenter concept (maybe a good idea but not convinced by the presentation)
• REST (already covered by many posts)

I have been disappointed by one thing, there weren’t any RadiantCMS talk :(.

Link_to: presentations and descriptions

If you try to use scrubyt or mechanize on ubuntu you could get some error like:

After having installed Opensll via apt-get you will also need libssl_dev.

Then now go to the ruby source folder, and in openssl extension folder: /.../ruby1.8/ext/openssl

ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install

check your installation with ruby -rubygems -e "require 'mechanize'"

Congratulation to the team of Radiant CMS they have released a great piece of code with this version:

$ sudo gem install radiant

Announce

List of changes

Enjoy !

For my training on Radiant I did a small extension to manage config parameters, usually accessible with the console or sql.

installation:

svn co http://www.rubynaut.net/svn/radiant/extensions/config_editor/ config_editor

Done.

I liked:

• the api to add your admin controls
• an asbtract model controller to help in managing your model’s CRUD with only few lines.
• the good practises you can get from the Radiant code :)

Creating an extension with Radiant is so easy! I guess this system will become very popular, and it will give ideas to others :p. With this, Radiant become a very good base to create any kind of website.

PS: the extension has now a tag <r:config key="key"/> to access a value inside your page.