Videos and more info.

Tom Dyer — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:48:00 +0000

Eric Richmond has uploaded the March Meeting videos to Google video.

Brian DeLacey’s on Screen Scraping with Hpricot
Luke Stark on Behavior Driven Development. Video and Slides
Jeremy Durham on Deploying Rails Application

Thanks Eric

MetroWest Ruby Users Group

The MetroWest Ruby Users Group is looking for support. They meet in Natick at Mathworks and their next meeting is on Thursday April 19th.

Jeremy Durham has created a Rails doc site at RailsApi
“PHP.net style documentation for Rails Provides a smooth transition for programmers into the world of Ruby on Rails. This site is not designed to teach you Ruby or Rails; instead, we focus on providing the information you need in an easily digestible format, with real-world examples and community driven comments”

Brian DeLacey

What if you wanted to create really nice looking graphics? And you wanted a lot of fine-grained, programmatic control over charts and text? RCairo and Ruby-Gnome2

WorkingWithRails

Add you’re name to the WorkingWithRails group that Sean Hussey created WorkingWithRails Thanks Sean

O’Reilly User Group Program

We’ve signed up with O’Reilly User Group Program They are looking for Book Reviewers AND “Boston Ruby Group members receive a 35% discount on O’Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, Syngress, or YoungJin products purchased directly from O’Reilly. The discount code your members should use is DSUG Orders can be placed online at or by calling 800-998-9938. Your members are also entitled to a discount on O’Reilly conferences and tutorials. Other special discount offers may also be forwarded to your group from time to time.”

Brian Guthrie

Brian Guthrie has put together a design-by-contract system for Ruby and he’s looking for some feedback. “It’s still a bit raw but the tests pass and it’s usable. No gem yet” Blog Post