Orange County Ruby Users Group

Our friends at O’Reilly has recently sent me 2 books to give out as review copies. They are

• Rails for PHP Developers from the Pragmatic Programmer Series
• The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto (”Matz”) from O’Reilly

If anybody would like to read any one of these books then write a book review on Amazon.com or Slashdot book reviews or anywhere else on the web let me know and send a link to the review. This way O’Reilly will keep sending us books if they know our user group members will read them and submit reviews online.

On Feb 28th we had a small but engaged group. There were about 5 developers, Gary (our host) and 2 recruiters from TEKsystems looking for developers. We gave the ladies a few minutes of the floor to pitch about what they’re looking for. After downing some pizza and drinks we dove into the RESTful Rails screencast from Peepcode. We only got about half way through so we’ll be continuing next time where we left off. Peepcode didn’t have the Rails 2.0 version of the screencast ready yet so we’ll have to refactor some of what we’ve learned over to 2.0 which would be a good way to end the topic once we finish going through the video.