{"id":557,"date":"2013-05-09T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agilityfeat.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-05-09T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:18:34","slug":"8-things-railsconf-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilityfeatpanama.com\/en\/blog\/2013\/05\/8-things-railsconf-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"8 things I learned at RailsConf 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Portland<\/a>Last week I was in Portland Oregon for RailsConf<\/a> 2013.\u00a0 Portland is a great city with beautiful views of mountains that us East Coasters dream of, unusually good weather (last week anyways), and a very entertaining soccer team<\/a>.\u00a0 But none of that is why I spent a week and some long flights going there.\u00a0 Here are eight takeaways I had from RailsConf\u2026<\/p>\n

1. Real Time Rails takes a step forward<\/h2>\n

Brian Cardarella demo\u2019d how Rails 4 makes it easier to write real time apps in Rails that were previously better done in something like nodejs.\u00a0 Brian\u2019s slides are here<\/a>, but most of his talk was a demo so the slides don\u2019t do it justice.\u00a0 For a hint of how this is done in Rails 4 you could also check out this blog post from Tender Loving<\/a>.\u00a0 To see how you can do similar things now before Rails 4<\/a>, try out this blog post by Liam Kaufman.<\/p>\n

2. Hiring Volatiles and Stables \u2013 So Happy Together?<\/h2>\n

On Monday night, Michael Lopp<\/a> gave the evening keynote.\u00a0 My takeaway from his entertaining (if rambling) talk was about how to build a successful but still innovative company, you need to balance the conflicting desires of very innovative-but-difficult-to-manage developers (the Volatiles) and those very reliable-but-not-very-creative developers that drift to more established companies \"RailsConf<\/a>(the Stables).\u00a0 As AgilityFeat grows, I can start to see this tension coming into play.\u00a0 While this was not a technical talk or specific to Rails, there were some very good nuggets for where I am at right now.<\/p>\n

3. Snappy Apps take advantage of asynchronous workers<\/h2>\n

David Kapp<\/a> from coshx labs<\/a> gave a very good overview of how to use asynchronous workers in rails<\/a>, and it reminded me to remind myself to use them more often.\u00a0 He listed these candidates for aynch calls:<\/p>\n