My talk (Using MetricFu to make your Rails code better) went well. I'd say there were 200ish people in the crowd and they all seemed to enjoy it. There were a bunch of questions and some verbal commitments to contribute to MetricFu.Rails in the Large: How We're Developing the Largest (Enterprise) Rails Project in the World Neal Ford...

Sponsor Keynote: Agility in Deployment - Rails in the Cloud Jon Crosby (Engine Yard)During the morning session Engine Yard announced their new Rails on EC2 (Amazon's compute cloud) solution: FlexYou can one button deploy to the cloud. It is a self healing cluster: Each node is in a load balancing pool. If one fails they automatically startup a...

Sponsor Keynote: Agility in Deployment - Rails in the Cloud Jon Crosby (Engine Yard)During the morning session Engine Yard announced their new Rails on EC2 (Amazon's compute cloud) solution: FlexYou can one button deploy to the cloud. It is a self healing cluster: Each node is in a load balancing pool. If one fails they automatically startup a...

Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony Gregg Pollack (Rails Envy) Gregg gave out the Ruby Heroes Awards:Brian Helmkamp for WebratAman Gupta for EventMachine and AMPQLuis Lavena for One-click Ruby Installer (for Windows)Pat Allen for Rails Camp and thinking_sphinxDan Kubb for DataMapperJohn Nunemaker for HTTParty and RailsTips (the blog)Keynote Timothy...

Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony Gregg Pollack (Rails Envy) Gregg gave out the Ruby Heroes Awards:Brian Helmkamp for WebratAman Gupta for EventMachine and AMPQLuis Lavena for One-click Ruby Installer (for Windows)Pat Allen for Rails Camp and thinking_sphinxDan Kubb for DataMapperJohn Nunemaker for HTTParty and RailsTips (the blog)Keynote Timothy...

Did you know the Las Vegas Hilton charges you 3 dollars to print out a boarding pass? Jerks.JavaScript Testing in Rails: Fast, Headless, In-Browser. Pick Any Three. Larry Karnowski So blue_ridge is a javascript testing tool that mashes up a bunch of other tools to make testing javascript more or less like writing RSpec test. It's pretty cool...

Did you know the Las Vegas Hilton charges you 3 dollars to print out a boarding pass? Jerks.JavaScript Testing in Rails: Fast, Headless, In-Browser. Pick Any Three. Larry Karnowski So blue_ridge is a javascript testing tool that mashes up a bunch of other tools to make testing javascript more or less like writing RSpec test. It's pretty cool...

Quick note: What's up with all the moths in this convention hall? They keep wandering over to see what I'm typing. Odd.David Heinemeier Hansson's Keynote:Here are some thoughts expressed by David during his keynote:You can win argument merely based on the strength of your arguments, most often it just takes some time for good ideas to sink in.7...

Quick note: What's up with all the moths in this convention hall? They keep wandering over to see what I'm typing. Odd.David Heinemeier Hansson's Keynote:Here are some thoughts expressed by David during his keynote:You can win argument merely based on the strength of your arguments, most often it just takes some time for good ideas to sink in.7...

First off, I'm going spend a minute in non-technical land and say that my wife and I had a fabulous time in Vegas over the weekend. She got to be part of a magic trick at the Penn and Teller show and won 50 bucks from a Wizard of Oz slot machine. Here's some pics of our trip in case you want to see:...

First off, I'm going spend a minute in non-technical land and say that my wife and I had a fabulous time in Vegas over the weekend. She got to be part of a magic trick at the Penn and Teller show and won 50 bucks from a Wizard of Oz slot machine. Here's some pics of our trip in case you want to see:...

What's new:Merged in Grant McInnes' work on creating yaml output for all metrics to aid harvesting by other toolsSupporting Flog 2.1.0Supporting Reek 1.0.0Removed dependency on Rails Env for 3.months.ago (for churn report), now using chronic gem ("3 months ago").Almost all code is out of Rakefiles now and so is more easily testableMetrics...

What's new:Merged in Grant McInnes' work on creating yaml output for all metrics to aid harvesting by other toolsSupporting Flog 2.1.0Supporting Reek 1.0.0Removed dependency on Rails Env for 3.months.ago (for churn report), now using chronic gem ("3 months ago").Almost all code is out of Rakefiles now and so is more easily testableMetrics...

So I've been kind of heads down trying to get metric_fu ready for Rails Conf, so I had only vaguely heard about the recent controversy over Matt Aimonetti's recent presentation "CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star." When someone did mention it to me I thought of David Heinemeier Hansson's famous "F--- You" slide or Zed Shaw's rants or any given...

So I've been kind of heads down trying to get metric_fu ready for Rails Conf, so I had only vaguely heard about the recent controversy over Matt Aimonetti's recent presentation "CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star." When someone did mention it to me I thought of David Heinemeier Hansson's famous "F--- You" slide or Zed Shaw's rants or any given...