play/type blog

Just got back from 9 great days in Berlin: Railsconf 2008 is over.

I gave a talk about the Workling plugin, which solves the issue of deciding on a rails background work solution by providing a single interface over various solutions.

To illustrate the talk with a nice example, I created a project on github. Besides being a shameless attempt at winning over the audience by making their laptops moo (try running CowSubsystem.moo once you’ve cloned it - osx required), it shows how the same codebase can be made to send mooing to the background using 1. spawn, 2. bj, and 3. starling. Oh yeah, there’s a branch for each solution up on github.

If you were at Railsconf and liked my talk, then please do rate it at the conference site If you didn’t like my talk then… hey look, it’s the simpsons voiceover artists on actors studio! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOQnJ-SLHI

You can find the slides up on the Railsconf site, or on Slideshare: