If you aren’t aware already, HTML5 has Websockets API – enabling bidirectional communication between client and server. You should check Ilya’s post Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser for a better explanation.

Here are the slides of my presentation at Railssummit 2009. Huge thanks to Locaweb and Fabio Akita for organizing the conference and having me there.

My talk was about Rails focused tips/tricks.

I’ve been toying around with the idea for a small website lately, but never actually got around to do it. In an attempt to clear out my personal to do list I finally motivated myself to start yesterday, and I have to say the following combination of tools is not only insanely efficient, but also really fun to work with: