In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come. Hansson also comments on his Startup School presentation, and why he thinks Chicago is an ideal environment for technology and innovation.
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Miserable internet connectivity at conferences is something most geeks have to deal with. As a result of RailsConf 2008, some folks have leveraged Apple's now open source Bonjour service discovery protocol to produce a whole slew of services to help people go off-grid at conferences. This makes serving things such as git repositories, pastebins, and other fun stuff more comfortable in places without a fast or reliable internet connection.
We've come a long way with tools for developing and sharing our code, especially when it comes to revision control. However, packaging and deploying code for release is still at worst a huge hassle and at best an administrative chore. Can we do better?





