2011 RailsConf 回述

• railsconf:奥斯丁on Rails RailsConf社区活动
• railsconf-2015:Railsconf 2015 演讲和视频
• railsconf2013-tech-demo：Seahorse是描述您的API的一种方式
• railsconf_scripts:我的RailsConf实验室关于贡献Rails的Active Record脚本
• railsconf-2015:进程和线程 - Resque 与 Sidekiq

Day 1 of RailsConf is the day of tutorials. 

I attended the HTML5 session by @subelsky in the morning and learned a bunch. Like everybody else, I have heard about the HTML5 buzz for a while, but never got deeper into it than scratching the surface. The session ran in the form of 13 labs, and drawing, sockets, native storage, and of course native media support are the highlights. In fac you can do many cools things with just html5 now.. such as this game. The presenter did a great job packaging the material as a series of easy to follow labs. You can get them here and follow it. It will all just take a couple of hours. 

I went to "Building Bulletproof Views" in the afternoon by the LivingSocial guys.. Solid presentation and I learned quite a lot.. I tend to agree with them that the rails view layer is wild west and is probably the least organized part of the framework, and I didn't see much "best practices" before on this layer - good work that they put this together. Interestingly, I found half of the issues are made really easy with using an authorizing framework like Compass. They also talked about some tools like formastic, goose (a gem for tab navigations), responsive design and the mobile web. Presentation is here. 

Also, the Envy Labs guys gave sessions on Rails for Zombies (beginner's course to Ruby on Rails) and Rails Best Practices. Check them out. 

Finally, IgniteRails is awesome! @drnic is hilarious. 

Day 2:

@dhh gave the keynote in the morning to unveil Rails 3.1 RC - asset pipeline, jQuery default, native CoffeeScript + Sass support and all. No big architectural changes but solid steps to make Rails more organized. He also hinted that pjax and backbone.jscould be there in Rails 3.2 (presentation layer MVC is a recurring topic this year).

Jeff Casimir / @j3 gave a very nice session on "Fat Models aren't enough", where he talked about better organization of code in the models, the presenter pattern (don't just pass a bunch of instance variables into the view, pack them up in a presenter class), scopes (or the no need of ) with lots of code snippets. Presentation here. 

Another session that I found really good is "Confident Code" by Avdi Grimm / @avdi. Presentation here. He talked about the Nil objects being over used in Ruby is so true. The idea of killing all nil in the code is refreshing (therefore eliminating all the checking).  I'll certainly incorporate that in my code.

Eric Ries, the godfather of the "lean startup" movement gave the evening keynote. I've seen him speak before, but it makes me think every time. If you are into building a software product start up, his work is a must read. Video is here.