This week’s meeting will NOT be at Microsoft as usual, rather, will be held at SmartSoft in Huntington Beach. SmartSoft’s office address is here
http://www.smart-soft.com/contactUs/ContactUs.jsf
Here’s a map
Here’s what the meeting room looks like. The room is WiFi enabled in case you want to bring your notebooks.
http://www.smart-soft.com/ComputerRoomRental.jsf
Michael Genereux will be presenting on beginning and advanced topics in Ruby on Rails with respect to mapping 1-to-many relationships to Rails controller, models, and user interface components. He will be drawing a lot of information he picked up from Amy Hoy’s talk “Overcoming Scaffolding Addiction” at RailsConf. FYI, the RubyOnRails Podcast interviewed Amy in Oct 2005, download interview here
First hour: Relationships in ActiveRecord. The ability to automatically handle persistence to a database is only the beginning of ActiveRecord’s features. Following up on that capacity, I plan to talk about what support ActiveRecord offers for relationships between objects and how that’s stored in the respective tables.
Second hour: Relationships in ActionPack/ActionView How the controller and view take advantage of methods created by ActiveRecord. From bottom to top, I’m going to cover creating and manipulating relationship from the user interface.
