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cientifico
I think part of the rails philosophy is to use the correct tool for the problem you want to solve. If you want a blog, probably wordpress is the best option.
elamadej
Ha! We had that discussion last year ;) Yes, it's php. Yes, it could be better. But we chose it and it does the job. It's a blog in the end ;)
elamadej
Ouch, right. Currently it doesn't do the job ;)
zalew
I though it should be the default philosophy of everyone.
gnufied
Dunno, but a static generator like Nanoc & Jekyll works much better than Wordpress for me.

PS: I see the sarcasm though. :-)

bilalq
Error establishing a database connection. Bad timing?
elamadej
apparently ;) working on it!
macarthy12
> Error establishing a database connection
elamadej
Thanks! We're working on it ;)
elamadej
Apparently the traffic killed us. GOOD PROBLEM :) Fixing it!
elamadej
And we're back up, thanks for your patience!
taybenlor
That actually sounds kind of awesome. It's easy to get sick of the same Rails news over and over. Plus Ruby has such a vibrant and exciting world beyond Rails.
Argorak
Its not like there are no european Ruby conferences that include many topics beyond Rails and even Ruby. E.g. wroclove.rb, eurucamp and even EuRuKo. So, I don't see the big news here.

Calling a conference "Railsxxx" and then not doing any Rails sounds weird to me.

zgryw
Ruberry? Rberry? NoRailsBerry? ;)
elamadej
Yeah, "big news" is relative. Maybe it's no big news, it's cool, too! We just wanted to share what our focus is going to be. People seem to react well (=> twitter).

Why Railsberry? => it's still for Rails devs by Rails devs. And we love our name :D

Argorak
Oh, I don't want to criticize too much. I am just quite surprised the only all-out community Rails conference in Europe is suddenly non-Rails at all.

In any case, you are doing great work and I am sure that Railsberry will be a success again!

elamadej
Thanks! Stay tuned for what's on the menu, we're sure as the programme unrolls, it will answer some doubts ;).

That's actually a plan we came up with with Rails core team guys and hopefully Rails community can benefit A LOT from this open-minded approach!

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amirf
Great idea. This would be a good opportunity to experience and experiment in other technologies that don't get much spotlight. Will definitely try to get there this year!