Last night I missed Dave Thomas’s keynote but I did catch DHH’s keynote this morning. It was interesting. He spent most of the talk going over Rails 2.0 new things, encouraging people to use REST (tacitly, as the demo was all RESTful).
DHH contrasted the differences from Rails of three years ago with Rails 2.0 and the differences were amazing. I don’t think I could have stuck it out if I had joined the game at that point. Unpacking a tarball, no migrations… yeesh! Glad I got into Rails 18 months ago when Rails was more mature.
DHH’s talk may not have been as informative as the 2006 one (about REST) but it was interesting anyways. Rails 2.0 tech preview will be either soon or next week! I’m excited for it.
