Orange County Ruby Users Group

Hi Folks:

Location: SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: Padrino Presentation

After that: free for all

Forrest

Hi Folks:

Location: SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: Redis, Ruby, Resque – Brendon Murphy

7:45: Slideshare Roulette

After that: free for all

Forrest

Hi Folks:

Location: SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: DSLs in Ruby, if time Sinatra/rest client

After that: free for all

Forrest

Hi Folks:

We’re on. Dave has the place open

SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: 10 things Java programmers should know about Ruby

After that: free for all

Forrest

So we’re on for the meeting this thurs @ smart soft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: Organizational matters

• introductions
• “committees”
• Vote on
  • times
  • location
• Discussion on additional activities
  • code dojos
  • hackfest
  • twitter/facebook
  • special events (joint RUG stuff, speakers, etc)
  • etc.
• Get a feel of what people want to talk about

7:45: Presentation: Intro to Cucumber, by Pat Maddox http://www.patmaddo x.com/http://archive. patmaddox. com/blog/

After that: Anything goes!

Forrest

Our next meeting will be Thursday, March 26th, at 6:30pm. We will be meeting at our new venue, Smartsoft in Irvine. You can get directions here.

http://www.smart-soft.com/misc/Location.html

We will be providing an introduction to ActiveRecord and going over some more advanced topics as well. Feel free to bring up any other topics or projects you’d like to share with us as well.

This month we’ll be crashing LARuby’s meeting here in our backyard at UCI. Here’s the details:

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Title: LARuby Meetup #8

Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: UC Irvine Campus – Information/Computer Science Building, Room CS432
Notes: I’m excited to host the first meeting of 2009 at UC Irvine.
It will be held in the Information and Computer Science building, room
CS432.

**IMPORTANT – PARKING**

Regrettably we couldn’t work it out so parking would be free so you
will have to pay for part time parking at one of the kiosks at the
entrance to any of the parking structures. To park near the meeting:
First, make a right turn onto East Peltason rd. from Campus dr. and
follow that until you see the second parking structure on your right
side, not lot. Park on any floor the attendant recommends and ask him
for directions to the Information and Computer Science building, not
the new Donald Bren Hall.

There will be snacks and drinks graciously provided by the ACM of UCI;
hope to see you there!

-Warren
wapples@gmail.com

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There’s a map here.

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_08_map_campus_core.pdf

The CS building is building #302 on the map, on the south side of campus.

Our next OC Ruby meeting will be at Robert Half in Irvine. The meeting will be on Thursday, November 20th, from 6:30 – 9:00pm. Their address is

18200 Von Karman Ave Suite 800
Irvine, CA 92612
(877) 290-1698

PARKING TIP: Make sure you park at the Wells Fargo parking lot across the street and not in the parking garage. The Wells Fargo lot is free parking after 7pm, while the parking garage is automated and not free.

We will be having our next OC Ruby meeting Thursday, April 24th, at the Oakley Headquarters in Foothill Ranch. We will meet at 6:30pm (instead of the usual 7pm). Topics will be on:

1. Introduction to and advanced strategies for ActiveRecord for mapping your database to Ruby model objects

2. The Git version control system, created by Linus Torvalds and used by the Rails, Merb, and RSpec teams. For a talk given by Linus at Google on Git see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
If you’ve never visited Oakley’s offices before it’s almost reason alone to come visit. Our guest Randall can give a brief tour of the facility as well.

Here’s a Google map to Oakley
http://tinyurl.com/5789ob

Here’s Oakley’s address and driving directions page
http://oakley.com/customer_service/directions

See the event on Upcoming.org and please RSVP so we can get an estimated head count
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/474008/?ps=5

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.