As a platinum sponsor of Rubynation this year we were lucky enough to get tickets for all of the ruby developers in the office, and the chance to hear our own CTO speak about rails engines (great job Pat). As a convert from .net this was my first ruby specific convention. Surprisingly (in a good way) the conference was noticeably heavy on technologies that were not ruby. I went to talks on javascript, coffeescript, cojure, sass, sinatra and node.js. Its great to see how broad the interests are in the ruby community and how readily rubyists embrace and enthusiastically adapt new platforms, languages and technologies. Read More »