<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks :)<div>I like those topics too. I'm just reading The RSpec Book beta. Its well worth it so far. IMO the 'syntactic sugar' can also be thought of as 'development philosophy' designed to encourage a change in the way people think about the dev process; but I think James Adam made a bunch of comments a lot more eloquently than I can. I will finish the book and think about commenting then :)<div><br></div><div>My Ruby topic of choice would be Maglev. It looks really interesting, but there is not a lot out there about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone interested in Windows rails development?I understand it has some problems, are there a lot of people put off Rails development because of that?</div><div><br><div><div>On 21 Feb 2009, at 11:14, Vahagn Hayrapetyan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">OK, here's my pick:<br><ul><li>Merb and the Merge</li><li>BDD (because I have a suspicion that it is syntactic sugar for integration testing, and would like to be proven wrong)</li><li>A Ruby-only topic (ie, not necessarily Rails-related). Like for instance, tales from the frontiers of projects such as Rubinius, the Ruby gcc, etc. Alternatively, "the most exciting / groundbreaking Ruby / Rails project of the past 3 months".</li> </ul>Cheers,<br>Vahagn</blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>