And I took some notes. A larger post will follow here and on the imedo devblog
Overall it was fun. Good presentations, but the rooms were to small and there were not enough powerplugs.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I will be attending RailsWayCon 2009 in Berlin

Just a quick tip:
It is possible to pass a :layout option to a render :partial call like this
<%= render :partial => ’some_list’, :layout => ‘list_widget’ %>

Oh well RailsConf is over. It should be more often. I really liked it alot. Very interesting and sometimes entertaining talks. I will be posting some articles about the talks on http://devblog.imedo.de and some more here within the next weeks.
I certainly learned alot and I just want to say, if you ever have the chance [...]

If you would like to send HTML Emails with all the bells and whistles that Actionpacks Actionview provides checkout my freshly released plugin awesome_email on github.
It will enable you to use layouts/templates for your HTML Emails and it will inline CSS information inside the HTML to make sure it works in almost all Email clients.
For [...]

There’s a nice plugin which acts as a dropin replacement for prototype and scriptaculous in Rails. It’s called jRails and is just a simple plugin. It replaces all the helper methods to use jQuery instead of prototype and scriptaculous.
Get it here: http://ennerchi.com/projects/jrails
Or install it with this command:
./script/plugin install http://ennerchi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/jrails
and copy all the javascripts to your [...]

There’s a new gem called passenger which makes it very easy to deploy your rails application on a Apache2 server. Here is the website of the project: Passenger
There’s also a short screencast you can watch to see how easy rails deployment can be: Passenger Screencast (the video is made by Ryan Bates from railscasts so [...]

As some might know, I’m writing on a new persistent browserbased game that is located in space.
On the galaxynomads development blog (which I can’t access at the moment, because I have no access to my old email account) I announced in November 2006 that I was going to develop it with Ruby on Rails. As [...]