Check out LA Ruby Conf, April 4th, right here in Orange County (Tustin). For more info visit their site.
LA Ruby Conf
Check out “RailsSpace” from Michael Hartl
One of our own members, Michael Hartl, just published a book RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails. Check it out and good luck with the book!
Ruby School is now in session!
Come join us for Ruby School, a study group sponsored by the OC Ruby users group dedicated to increasing understanding of Ruby. Come join us at Panera Bread in Irvine, January 24th.
Visit the Ruby School page for more details.
Rails 1.2 Released!
Woo hoo!

Ruby on Rails Camp, sponsored by IBM in San Jose, November 9th
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This looks like it could be fun! $25, presented in “unconference†format a-la FooCamp or BarCamp. |
Ruby on Rails 1.1 Released!
Ruby on Rails v1.1 is now released.
Some major features include
- RJS – Generate Javascript client code with Ruby!
- Major upgrades to ActiveRecord such as bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models, to_xml, calculations, and database adapters for Sybase and OpenBase
- New respond_to feature of Action Controller that makes it much easier to launch your application with both Ajax, non-Ajax, and API access through the same actions
- 500+ other changes
Scott Raymond has a What’s New in Rails 1.1 page he’s been maintaining.
Go get it! gem install rails --include-dependencies
puts “Hello World!”
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We hope to have our first meeting in either February or March but we still have to secure a meeting place first. Stay tuned!


