Yeah, good point about a little more planning. I know it’s supposed to be ad hoc, but come on now. I’m not even claiming I have much of a life. It’d just be kinda nice to know!

I would definitely attend more event like these. And maybe I’ll even participate in the discussion.

Having people silence their phones during talks. Rude++

Yes, please! Hey John Sechrest - what makes you think it’s alright to answer your phone and have a conversation when you’re sitting right next to the guy trying to give a presentation?

I don’t think that ‘acts_as_ferret’ supports sorting in the sense that this plugin works with.

When using Ferret (Lucene) you are looking for relevant results. The sorting of the results is determined by parameters inside of Ferret. Unlike an active record .find() there is no :order parameter which is used here. You might check this page and read up on the different properties that can be associated with fields of an active record.