Sorry, no picture, I forgot to bring my camera and I didn’t want to use my camera phone.
There 6 of us there last night, 2 new faces (Steve and Fabrizio) and 4 repeats (Rex, Daiyu, Chris and Scott). It was nice to have Steve there (all the way from Pasadena) as he’s been using Rails at work for some time now and he was able to add some seasoned clarifications to the text.
We started close to our 7pm time, most taking some time to order food. We went through chapters 3-5, spending most of our time on chapters 3-4, discussing Ruby’s OO constructs, and blocks and closures. We didn’t get all of the way through chapter 5 but we figured it wasn’t worth spending lots of time since it was mainly about syntax and types.
It’s really great to have a laptop there and be able to play with Ruby in IRB when a question comes up like “what if we write such and such code, what would happen then?” I would recommend bringing a lappy if you can.
We’ll meet again Feb 21st at Panera again, going through chapters 6-8. Stay tuned to the mailing list and the Ruby School web page for changes.
