The next meeting of the OCRuby User’s Group will be held on May 25th at Microsoft’s Irvine Office (yes, I said Microsoft).
The meeting will start with networking at 6:30pm.
The first hour will walk through the “Create a weblog in 15 minutes” video. We encourage all to bring a laptop so we can all implement a weblog in > 15 minutes and feel comfortable with getting a simple Rails app up and running. If you bring a laptop you will need a few things pre-installed before the meeting:
1 – Ruby
2 – Ruby on Rails
3 – MySQL
4 – An IDE/text editor
This link has some great tips on how to get started.
http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
You may want to consider one of the “all in one” installations like InstantRails (Windows) or Locomotive (Mac OS X) if you’re not comfortable getting all of this running. When the walkthrough starts we will assume everybody’s laptop has all of this installed and set up. We don’t have time to walk through installation and management of these tools.
The “Create a weblog in 15 minutes” video can be found here:
http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts
If you’re having trouble from pulling the video there is a ZIP-compressed version you can download from http://www.ocruby.org/15MinuteBlog.zip
If you don’t have a laptop available to you that’s OK, I’m sure other members won’t mind you pairing up with them.
The second hour will be a presentation on Metaprogramming in Ruby.
http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,1928561,00.asp
Agenda
6:30pm – 7:00pm – Networking, chit chat
7:00pm – 8:00pm – Walkthrough of “Creating a weblog in 15 minutes” video
8:00pm – 9:00pm – Metaprogramming in Ruby
