Second Day of Rails Summit, started hot. Phusion guys talked about Scaling Applications, what are the problems, bottlenecks, solutions, how's the possibilities to face it. Was very good and entertaining, specially when Darth Vader come into it. Slides were good with funny animations.
After that comes Charles Nutter e Thomas Enebo talkin on JRuby and because the technical problems during the virtual presentation, left an impression that could be better. They gave an overview of the status of JRuby, how it runs on hotspot, and also presented some (strange) numbers of memory usage in JRuby comparing to MRI.
Jay Fields talking was about testing and some testing frameworks. Well in general was a good presentation but for him almost all solutions are imature, which I disagree and when he was questioned on what makes a framework mature, he said time, years...
David Chelimsky did 2 great talkings one about RSpec and the other about Cucumber, much more for newbies (with all respect to newbies it's just a stage). I liked a lot because he seem to be very confident on his arguments, this is a thing that I appreciate on speakers.
The others between Chelimsky's and Obie I didn't payed too much attention so I'll skip my review on them.
Obie Fernandez closed the event with a great keynote, telling about how his software consultancy deals with the agile manifesto. It's great to hear that you apply the techniques that he says that's a key of success of his company. He presented a full stack of the way his company develop software, since the first contact to the client.
Rails Summit for me was a great event, that I've met good mates from the brazilian and latin america Rails community. I will be waiting for the next one on 2009!
