The morning sessions of Paris on Rails can be summarized as follows:
- An introduction to Ruby and Rails done by Laurent Juillard from nuxos: interesting for those that never used Ruby before, and a good thing to do given the number of people in the room that are new to the platform in general. Otherwise, quite boring for those of us who already use it :) But the right thing to do nevertheless.
- A real-life use case of Ruby on Rails, shown by Aurélien Géron from Wifirst: a very interesting explanation of a company that chooses to jump on the Rails wagon, with answers to both the “why” and the “how”. Very funny explanation of how they had to deal with the Pythonistas inside the company who wanted to use Django instead :) The most interesting thing about this talk is the fact that they will release their webmail application as open source!
- Yann Lugrin, CTO of Liquid Concept (from Lausanne!) explained about the trouble to “internationalize” a Rails application (particularly about the IMHO biggest problem in Ruby: the lack of direct UTF-8 support!), and how you can use the Globalize plugin to make your sites multi-lingual and multi-cultural. I’m happy I’ve used it to make Parking Friend available in several languages :) Globalize rocks!
- Finally, Nicolas Mérouze from Yeastie Mobs talked about HAML as an alternative to ERB as the template language for Rails, and how it compares to other options like Markaby or DRYML or MasterView. Very interesting! HAML seems a little bit “Pythonesque” for my taste :) but that’s my opinion. Nicolas also made an interesting comment about SASS and Blueprint, which I had heard about, but never looked at in detail.
In any case, I still have trouble with the technical names and buzzwords in French :) I’m too used to the English versions! Other than that, a nice first part. Let’s see what comes in the afternoon! Now it’s time to have something to eat :)
Update: Read the afternoon report!
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