Our August 8th meet­ing will be at Timberlake Manor, as usual, start­ing at 6:30 PM.

If you have any other projects you would like to dis­cuss or share, please bring them to the meeting.

Nathan Neff can also give us an update about how Ruby teach­ing is going at Byteworks.

Topics/speakers:

1. Writing Better Rails Apps — Craig Buchek
2. Updates on Jeff’s mul­ti­ruby project (alt to RVM) — Jeff Barczewski
3. Byteworks update (Nathan Neff)

Meetings are inter­ac­tive and user dri­ven. Topic length and details are dri­ven by inter­est and ques­tions of the group.

If you want to share your expe­ri­ence or present another topic let us know or come to the meet­ing. We’re always open to new top­ics of interest.

After the meet­ing, sev­eral of us usu­ally head to a local restau­rant for food and post-meeting socializing.

Our July meet­ing will be at Timberlake Manor, as usual, start­ing at 6:30 PM.

Kent Jordan will be dis­cussing knockout.js which imple­ments MVVM for javascript client-side tem­plat­ing. From their website:

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to cre­ate rich, respon­sive dis­play and edi­tor user inter­faces with a clean under­ly­ing data model. Any time you have sec­tions of UI that update dynam­i­cally (e.g., chang­ing depend­ing on the user’s actions or when an exter­nal data source changes), KO can help you imple­ment it more sim­ply and maintainably.

Jeff Barczewski will give an update on the rvm-like multi-ruby he has been work­ing on which could be an alter­nate choice to RVM on *nix systems.

If you have any other projects you would like to dis­cuss or share, please bring them to the meeting.

Nathan Neff can also give us an update about how Ruby teach­ing is going at Byteworks.

Topics/speakers:

1. Knockout.js — Kent Jordan
2. Updates on Jeff’s mul­ti­ruby project (alt to RVM) — Jeff Barczewski
3. Byteworks update (Nathan Neff)

Meetings are inter­ac­tive and user dri­ven. Topic length and details are dri­ven by inter­est and ques­tions of the group.

If you want to share your expe­ri­ence or present another topic let us know or come to the meet­ing. We’re always open to new top­ics of interest.

After the meet­ing, sev­eral of us usu­ally head to a local restau­rant for food and post-meeting socializing.

Our June meet­ing will be at Timberlake Manor, as usual, start­ing at 6:30 PM.

Jeff Barczewski will dis­cuss his progress on a sim­pler rvm-like multi-ruby setup which he has been exper­i­ment­ing with. A dis­cus­sion of how it works, the goals, the imple­men­ta­tion and how it dif­fers from rvm and pik. One of the goals is bet­ter gem­set man­age­ment. Jeff wants to get input and ideas for the project.

We’ll also dis­cuss the new fea­tures in Rails 3.1 like the asset pipeline and cof­fee­script and what it means to us.

If you have any other projects you would like to dis­cuss or share, please bring them to the meeting.

Nathan Neff can also give us an update about how Ruby teach­ing is going at Byteworks.

Topics/speakers:

1. Simpler multi-ruby — Jeff Barczewski
2. Rails 3.1 dis­cus­sion — Group
3. Rails Conf Select Topic Review — Group
4. Byteworks update (Nathan Neff)

Meetings are inter­ac­tive and user dri­ven. Topic length and details are dri­ven by inter­est and ques­tions of the group.

If you want to share your expe­ri­ence or present another topic let us know or come to the meet­ing. We’re always open to new top­ics of interest.

After the meet­ing, sev­eral of us usu­ally head to a local restau­rant for food and post-meeting socializing.

Our May meet­ing will be at Timberlake Manor, as usual, start­ing at 6:30 PM.

Another list of great top­ics for this month’s meeting!

Facebook Integration — Craig and Richard will show us how to eas­ily inte­grate our sites with Facebook.

Gordon was unable to make it last month, so we’re plan­ning to include his dis­cus­sion of Pik, the multi-ruby for Windows. Join us a learn all the tricks and tech­niques for being pro­duc­tive and test­ing across mul­ti­ple rubies. Learn how Forwardable makes it easy to del­e­gate meth­ods with full con­trol. We have not yet heard a con­fir­ma­tion from him yet, but we’ll keep this on the agenda.

Jeff Barczewski would like to dis­cuss a sim­pli­fied rvm-like setup might make it eas­ier to main­tain multi-ruby setups across ver­sions and for switch­ing back and forth. This will be a dis­cus­sion of ideas and thoughts about the process.

Finally some great Ruby code idioms to dis­cuss which every great Ruby pro­gram­mer should know. Configuration through extend self, and how Method dis­patch works. Amos King or another Ruby mem­ber will walk through.

Nathan Neff can also give us an update about how Ruby teach­ing is going at Byteworks.

Topics/speakers:

1. Facebook Integration — Craig Buchek & Richard Jordan
2. Forwardable and Pik — Gordon Theisfeld (not yet confirmed)
3. Idea for sim­pli­fied rvm-like multi-ruby — Jeff Barczewski
4. Configuration through extend self — Amos King or other
5. Method dis­patch — Amos King or other
6. Byteworks update (Nathan Neff)

Meetings are inter­ac­tive and user dri­ven. Topic length and details are dri­ven by inter­est and ques­tions of the group.

If you want to share your expe­ri­ence or present another topic let us know or come to the meet­ing. We’re always open to new top­ics of interest.

After the meet­ing, sev­eral of us usu­ally head to a local restau­rant for food and post-meeting socializing.