Boston Ruby Group: Category General

Ruby East Coming Up!

Tom Dyer — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:39:00 +0000

Ruby East registration is now open!

Chariot Solutions is proud to be able to bring some of the top speakers in the Ruby and Rails communities to our region.

Location: Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA USA

Date: September 28, 2007

This conference is not just for those who already know and love Ruby. It also features an exceptional lineup for beginners, including Jeremy McAnally’s “Humble Little Ruby Talk” and an introductory Rails talk by Amy Hoy. If you have colleagues or friends who are just getting started with Ruby or who are have not gotten around to looking into Ruby yet—this is an ideal conference to bring them to.

The winners of the 2007 Rails Rumble will be announced at the conference.

Ruby East will be a valuable experience for anyone who wants to learn more about Ruby.

David A. Black – Author of Ruby for Rails and Rails Routing, Trainer
Hal Fulton – Author of The Ruby Way
Amy Hoy – Ruby/Rails Interaction Design Guru, Author, Co-founder of Hyphenated People
Ezra Zygmuntowicz – Merb framework creator, Co-founder of Engine Yard, Author

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

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

Video Podcasts from San Diego group

Tom Dyer — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:31:11 +0000

Found these Ruby/Rails videos on the San Diego Ruby User’s Group site.

http://podcast.sdruby.com/

Welcome back!

Chris Lambert — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:38:00 +0000

This is the new home of the Boston Ruby Users Group, having finally moved off of TextDrive and away from the spam-filled Wiki. Unfortunately, Ruby is really weak in the Wiki department right now, with both Instiki and I2 having so little functionality (and no spam prevention). Given this, running a Typo instance seems like the best option.

I’m looking to add a fair number of “authors” to the blog so I won’t have to keep up with updates on my own, so show up to the next meeting and I’ll take names.

And if you have suggestions for the site, or if #{@application} would better suit our needs, post in the comments.