Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend RailsConf in Portland OR. For the unfortunate who weren’t able to attend, it was a 1600 nerds attending dozens of seminars on the latest and greatest technologies and techniques for working with Rails. Some of the stuff was really niche and I didn’t really feel like it applied.

I hope amazon paid an ton for the 3+ sessions that where devoted to S3 and EC2. I know this is new exciting technology, but it seems like it only applies to the thoroughly scaled application and not so much for the lowly startup.

I learned a lot about different testing methodologies and got a good dose of REST, these are two things I will soon be focusing my development on, so I was excited to learn more about them from the proverbial horses mouth.

I have the best of intentions of writing an article about each of the sessions I attended, but it might take me a while to get it all written and posted, so don’t hold your breath.

In the mean time:

Conference Slides
Official Conference Website

The wiki is probably most pertinent for those who want to know what actually happened, not just what was expected.