Niket Patel

Screenscarping

• why screen-scrapping ? – Don’t until essential
• build app on scrapped models
  • Reform plugin
  • reform generator
  • reform record
• still lots of manual work

Making Rails More (Artificially) Intelligent

• New subject for me
• Bayesian Networks
• Naive Bayes Classifier
• Genetic Algorithms (Optimize web page revenue from advertisements)
• sbn, Simple Bayesian Networks
• bn4r, Bayesian Networks for Ruby
• Probability Distribution Tables
• Ruby Classifier – Bayesian and LSI classification library

Really Scaling Rails

• lessons from twitter
• not so exciting, all things already discussed over and over.
• expecting some open source tools within weeks

Rubinius, Improving The Rails Ecosystem

• I’m glad that I attended this session, pretty interesting stuff and nice person
• All talk centered arround Rubinius going well.
• MRI vs Rubinius
• worth try
• some comments and questions are interesting from Ola Bini

The Rest of REST

• Starts with interesting history
• REST, web architectural style
• Hypertext as the engine of application state
• Rest of REST
• Use your brains!
  • don’t design-by-buzzword
  • don’t believe everything you read
  • always keep in mind that change is inevitable

“Best Practices” Michael Koziarski Marcel Molina Jr.

• Most interesting talk so far. good chemistry between presenters
• Not new stuff for people follows RailsWay
• Skinny Controllers
• Named Callbacks

JRuby on Rails at ThoughtWorks” Ola Bini

• Ola Bini, very interesting and intelligent guy. I’m impressed
• JRuby progressing well
• UnitRecord
• Waffle Web Framework
• I used JRuby in project because I wanted to connect MSSQL and ruby/unix odbc/mssql over thin internet pipe is horrible. JRuby worked quite well
• Glasshfish Gem for Rails competitor to mongrel, some predicts death of mongrel
• install4j

Outsourcing to Open Source

• Tobias Luetke given very interesting talk.
• community engine is very important to small teams like Shopify
• though I never used Liquid

Browser-based Testing of Massive Ajax-using Rails Applications with Selenium

• I’m still learning use of Selenium
• But its very useful tool and directly tests what matter most.

Extending Rails to Use the Presenter Pattern

• most boring talk I have attended at railsconf so far.
• still topic is interesting and worth to try

NetBeans and Ruby

• Arun Gupta was demoing NetBeans and jMaki
• At one point he confused how to migrate down using NetBeans and he doesn’t seems to know CLI way, thats example of over reliance on IDE tools. when IDE fails you fails
• but it was pretty interesting tech and worth looking at

Obscure Data Formats, Workflow, and Remote Synchronization

• Very interesting talk
• more soon ….