David J Rice

Feeling a bit of University related stress, my trip down to Dublin for the Ruby Ireland group meetup was a great way to chill out. It was great to meet the regulars, and some completely new faces too. Paul Campbell stuck a couple of picture on his flickr of the post presentation relaxation at La Taverna di Bacco, great food / wine and banter were had by all! Provided my ass is not presently being kicked by University work, I will definitely be having a Ruby Tuesday next month.

Camping

Olivier gave a great presentation on Camping and for the uninitiated I’m not talking about how to pitch a tent and make smores. I will probably start some Camping of my own now I’ve been exposed to it :)

Distributed Ruby for Rails

I gave a talk on “Distributed Ruby for Rails”, covering a brief introduction to DRb and then a more Rails oriented approach with Backgroundrb, while not as good as Olivier’s I’m glad that no-one fell asleep (that I saw :)) and that the live demos I gave worked as planned.

• Presentation (pdf)
• DRb example http://svn.davidjrice.co.uk/svn/projects/robots
• Backgroundrb example http://svn.davidjrice.co.uk/svn/projects/giant_robots

Update: Fixing the urls to Olivier’s presentation, oop! Update: 20th July 2007 - After moving to slicehost I had to change the location of the examples.