We’re 1/2 of a day into the conference. So far i can’t say it’s been live blogging but from here on out i’ll post every hour or so.
DHH spoke via skype as he is in Sweden, and took questions. He covered some of the questions that seem to always come up when he speaks, like not having a roadmap, why open source projects shouldn’t promise release dates, etc. But he had a few good answers to some audience questions. For smaller applications, he recommended Phusion Passenger, which he noted was just simple and took away a lot of the burden of deployment. For larger applications he recommnds taking the approach they took with Basecamp, where they use apache, HAproxy, and mongrel. (I could be wrong on the apache part)
He also said the Rails community needs some sort of site that allows for the review, listing, and ranking of plugins. I do believe there are a few sites that try to do this, but no one mentioned them.
Chad Fowler had a great talk, i’ll cover that in the next post.