Boston Ruby Group

This month’s meeting will be held at it’s usual place, the Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway St, Kendall Sq on Tuesday, April 8th, and on Monday April 28th (you can get in as early as 6:30 PM; socializing and pizza starts at 7:00 PM).

It will be held on the 5th floor (not the 14th). Sign in and go to 5. Then follow the signs.

Directions .

We are looking for a Sponsor for the April 8th mtg.

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Agenda for Tuesday 4/8

• Antony Nigel Donovan – acts_as_materialized_path.
  A plugin to assist in handling of hierarchical data. A different take on functionality similar to, without claim to be better than, BetterNestedSet.
  • Writing the plugin.
  • Using the plugin and RESTful rails to manage a hierarchy.
  • Fun with AJAX and REST.
  • Databases and hierarchies.
• Lightning talks and general discussions.

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We are having a special meeting on Monday 4/28.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz author of Deploying Rails Applications and creator of Merb will be speaking.

This meeting will be sponsored by Second Rotation

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Many Thanks to

• Antony and Ezra for speaking.
• EngineYard for providing host for group projects and site.
• Second Rotation for sponsoring the Ezra meeting and picking up the tab for pizza.
• Brian Delacey for producing the videos
• John G. Norman finding the speakers and finding a venue.
• Cambridge Innovation Center for providing the room.