We had a small group last night but because of that it was a great opportunity to get hands-on help in an intimate setting!
Jim walked us through his presentation. We didn’t get through all of it, but we had some great questions along the way, including the difference of using “self.” instead of “@” when referencing attributes of Rails ActiveRecord classes inherited by your models (bottom line: use “self”).
Deb then gave a short overview of the MasterView project that she’s working on, which sounded like it has great potential for offering easy front-end development or rails templates for web designers without having to work around a bunch of <%= %> code injections and also for strong IDE/WYSIWYG support. There is a cool demo video of the tool at
http://masterview.org/videos/masterview_quick_start.html
And with more good news, Gerald Walsh, our sponsor at Microsoft, expressed interest and availability of allowing us to have our meetings there through the end of the year! Thanks Gerald for availaing your MSFT resources to us! For future meetings we’ll try to bring a WiFi router that we can plug into the 1 internet connection in the room so the audience can have WiFi internet access during the meeting.
