what do I know

I finally brought myself to attend a Ruby/Rails conference. I was motivated to do so by my most recent venture into JRuby and Rails at the office. acts_as_conference 2008 is put on by RailsForAll, an active participant in the Orlando Ruby community, as a single track, 2-day event being held out by Universal Studios. I just listened to an interview of Neal Ford on aboutGroovy.com and really enjoyed it. As luck would have it, I just found out that he is speaking at this conference. I’m really interested to see what constitutes advanced topics for Ruby DSLs (hopefully some patterns), especially with my latest venture into a library for using mock objects within ColdFusion (more on this later). Since I’m using JRuby, I expect the highlight of this conference for me to be the Headius. In reading his blog it sounds like we’ll get to see some of the really cool stuff that makes JRuby tick. Dan Benjamin and Obie Fernandez will be closing out each day, respectively, with a keynote that should be interesting since they seem to be recognized Ruby/Rails community members.

I’m enjoying what I’ve done thus far with JRuby/Rails and am grateful to the community for putting this even on in the Orlando area. Continuing with habits from previous conferences, I’ll try to post a summary of each session I attend as well as my pretty useless commentary. Here’s to being misunderstood and taken out of context by an entirely new community.

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