RuPy 2007

• A well-organized conference
• It was interesting to meet so many "dynamic" people
• Many Ruby people attended Python talks and vice-versa
• Maybe instead of having two separate sessions it would be better to have one with shorter talks?
• Poznan is a very nice city, almost as nice as Wroclaw :)
• The quote of the conference:
• "Look, all of the Ruby people have Macs!"
• "Yeah, they are better paid..."
  

Christopher Arndt talk on TurboGears

• TG is very similar to Rails
• TG has support for testing, unfortunately it wasn't shown during the talk
• as with all (?) Python web frameworks, you can't use Python for implementing views
• it's better with Rails, that you don't have to change the language for your views
• It uses SqlObject which is ok, but doesn't give you the same level of abstraction as SQLAlchemy (ActiverRecord-like ORM library) does
• They want to switch to SQLAlchemy soon, cool!

Ruby/Rails tools that help

• by Cloves Carneiro Jr.
  
• a very good presentation
• the speaker is a good example of a happy Rails programmer ;-)
• I was already familiar with all of the tools, but I learnt some details
• Capistrano
• Rake

• rake test:uncommitted
• nice Rakefile example
• Is there anything comparable in the Python world?
  

• Subversion
• autotest (zentest)

• perfect integration with growl notifier, very cool!

• rcov
• TextMate

Grono.net talk

• as far as I know Grono.net is the biggest Django application in the world
• many performance challenges
• "Share nothing" architecture
• Lots of caching
• The first version was in Java - "unmantainable", switched to Python
• not many tests
• experiments with WSGI tests
• they use an old Django version, can't take advantage of new features (testing support)

RadiantCMS

• a nice introduction to RadiantCMS
• it has a good system of extensions
• it's a Rails application, so you can easily extend it with your models/controllers
• there is a wysiwyg plugin

Domain specific languages with Ruby by Jan Szumiec

• Jan presented a very agile way of creating a valid DSL
• The pair programming part (with Olle Jonsson) was very funny :)

Developing with IronPython and Windows Forms by us (Michael Foord and Andrzej Krzywda)

• The talk was a little bit too long (90 minutes)
• I enjoy coding live :)