Orange County Ruby Users Group

Next OC Ruby Meeting, Thu Nov 20th 2008

shodson — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:44:36 +0000

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.

Rails 2.1 Released

shodson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:12:29 +0000

Rails 2.1 was just released! Read about it here. Some highlights:

The new major features are:

Time zones
Dirty tracking
Gem Dependencies
Named scope
UTC-based migrations
Better caching

Good RailsConf Coverage

shodson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:45:40 +0000

For those that couldn’t make it up to Portland this week for RailsConf, Drew Blas’ blog has been covering it well.

Ruby 1.8.7 Released

shodson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:43:19 +0000

Ruby 1.8.7 is released! From the release announcement…

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.

View the details here

Review of 4/24 meeting

shodson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:36:21 +0000

We had a great turn out at Oakley last night. Thanks to Randall for letting us use their space and the tour as well as the pizza and drinks that were provided. And thanks to Robert for an engaging presentation on Git. I didn’t get an exact head count but I believe we had about 15 or more in attendance.

Meeting 4/24, 6:30pm @ Oakley - ActiveRecord and Git

shodson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:09:17 +0000

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

“Rails for PHP Developers” and Matz’s “Ruby” book available for Review

shodson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:42:23 +0000

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.

2/28 Meeting Reviewed

shodson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:10:38 +0000

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.

Next meeting: 2/28, 7pm, “RESTful Rails”

shodson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:19:33 +0000

The OC Ruby Users Group will be meeting this Thursday, Feb 28th, for it’s monthly meeting. We will be watching the 1 hour and 24 minutes long Peepcode screencast on “RESTful Rails” and discussing it as well.

Pizza and drinks will be served, provided by Caneum and Ubero but we would ask everybody pitch in a few dollars of donation to help defray costs.

We will be meeting at Caneum in Newport Beach, the same place we met last month.

This event is posted on Upcoming.org. It would be great if you could RSVP there so we can get an estimated headcount.

Review of 1/31 Meeting

shodson — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:50:54 +0000

Last week’s meeting went off nicely. We had 8 developers in attendance, some off-shore developers in India dialed in via a conference call, and last but not least Gary, our host from Caneum. After chatting a bit and taking in some pizza as well as raiding Caneum’s refrigerator of sodas, beer and wine (thanks again Gary!) we jumped into DHH’s blog post about the Rails 2.0 release and just went through the changes that were made and went through them to understand their implications more clearly.

Sorry, I forgot my camera so no pics this time. The view of Newport Harbor was pretty nice though. And the small and tight-cornered parking garage would make a sweet laser tag arena!