Nashville at Railsconf

12 June 2010

Including myself, I counted 6 Ruby on Rails developers from Nashville at Railsconf this year.

I met Greg Donald and Bob McClellan who are Ruby and Rails developers at Vanderbilt.  Apparently those guys have really warmed Vanderbilt on using Rails which is awesome.  That's as much of a gift to the Rails community as an open-source tool.

Former Nashvillian Alex Sharp is having a great time as a Rubyist, active in the open-source community, and working out in SoCal.

Rick Bradley of OG Consulting gave a great talk on how to rescue other companies' floundering Rails projects.  He showed a lot of code and gave us the key points what to do at each stage of a rescue.  http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010/public/schedule/detail/14114

(Rick setting up before talk)