Last night I went to my second Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting at the Loring Park Dunn Brothers. Seems like a nice bunch. Here’s what I learned about:
- There was a discussion about using Simply RESTful in rails applications. This technique uses all the transaction methods of the HTTP protocol instead of passing every CRUD action through a POST or GET transaction, it attempts to use the correct transaction for the action, eg. Create => POST, Retrieve => GET, Update =>PUT, Delete => DELETE. This is a good article: What’s New in Edge Rails: Simply RESTful Support – And How to Use It. There was also something at Icon Buffet that was discussed, but I can’t seem to find it today.
- The Mac heads seem to be using Textmate as their development editor of choice, but I have a license for BBEdit and haven’t figured out all it can do, so I won’t be switching just yet. Maybe when I get an Intel based Mac I can run Multi-Edit in a parallels virtual machine on the desktop.
- There was a demo for a system management software application where the presenter (sorry I forgot your name) said that he was running code blocks out of the database. Yippee! Just like what you could do with Clipper.
- Then in another presentation of an application for managing youth sports teams the discusstion turned to javascript and a Rails plugin for managing Unobtrusive Javascript called script.aculo.us
This should be quite enough to chew on as I continue working on the PickAxe book.