The RailsConf Europe 2007 is a three day event dedicated entirely to Ruby on Rails and organized by O'Reilly.
A lot of intresting sessions are available at the Ruby on Rails conference 2007 in Berlin. In this post I'll write some notes about sessions I've partecipated on the first day of the conference.
Making Rails more (Artificially) Inteligent
Imagine a Ruby on Rails appliction that implements Artificialy Inteligent and her possible implementation, starting from a simple spam filtering to a problem solving. Sergio Espeja (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Santiago Bel (bee.com.es) has demontrated implementation of available open source AI Algorithms, such as Bayesian Networks, Naive Bayes Classifier, Genetic Alghorithms and its uses.
ActiveRecord and Service Data Objects: Adding New Data Models Beneath Your Rails Apps
Doug Tidwell (IBM) showed how easy is to implement Service Data Objects (SDO) to enable
ActiveRecord to access data source, such as XML files, web services, and LDAP directories. ActiveRecord is a great way to integrate a relational database into Rails application but in this session we discovered that it's very extensible to other data sources in the same way of a database.
JRuby on Rails: A Path to Adoption
In a world were deployment of dozens of servers is a painless Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter (Sun MIcrosystems, Inc.) demonstrate how to deploy JRuby in Rails application, how to integrate Rails with Java services and APIs, and how to effetively and easily manage JRuby on Rails apps using clustering and Java Management Extensions.
Anchoring Trust: Rewriting DNS for the Semantic Network with Ruby and Rails
Thanks to Eleanor McHugh and Romek Szczesniak (Games With Brains), two well-known London-based Ruby hackers, for the discussion taked about Semantic DNS and Rails. With a basic method explained how to implements a crazy DNS hyperlink and they have invited to the party of this criteria. Only this little Rubytastic critters are hyperlinks on steroids and the newtwork will never be the same again.
Keep updated for the second day's report.