This Thursday we will have our monthly OC Ruby meeting. This will be for us poor saps who couldn’t go to RailsConf 
Schedule
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6:30-7:00pm – Networking
7:00-8:15pm – Jim Mack, Rails User Login, Captcha and Validation Tricks
8:20-9:00pm – Deb Lewis, Overview of MasterView Rails Template Engine
Presentation Details
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Jim Mack – Rails User Login, Captcha and Validation Tricks
Bring your laptops and a functioning install of RoR if possible. We will work through how to get a rails project with a user login system going, manually working through the global validation using a filter in application.rb , adding “captcha,” having a special validation on one controller, and possibly able to show record based validation/access as well.
Deb Lewis – Overview of MasterView Rails Template Engine
MasterView is a rails-optimized (x)html friendly template engine plugin that provides another option to the existing rails view templates (rhtml and rxml). The main idea is to provide a template engine that would provide all the power of layouts, partials, and rails helpers but still be editable/styleable in a WYSIWYG editor. It was also a major goal that the syntax of these attribute directives be very similar to rails helpers so that one could intuitively start using MasterView with little learning curve other than knowing rails. MasterView was inspired by Amrita, Kwartz, Tapestry, Zope/PHP TAL, Liquid, and Web Objects but designed with a fresh approach and specifically targetted for rails users.
Meeting is at Microsoft, Irvine. 3 Park Plaza, 18th Floor, Irvine. See you there.
