Thanks, Coby!

I really hadn't considered turning it into a plugin...not a lot of
time for it right now, but if there's enough interest I could release
the web app.

Right now all my free time is going into a web app I'm writing to
promote Go in the U.S.  If there are any Go fans out there (see
http://usgo.org), I could sure use some help!

-Alf


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Coby Randquist <randquistcp@...> wrote:
> Alf,
>
> The Voting App is very cool!
>
> Have you considered turning it into a plugin?
>
> -Coby
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Desmond <desmondsbox-laruby@...>
> wrote:
>> Thursday meet ups don't work super good for me. After the July meet
>> up that's already scheduled, can we consider a different day? How
>> about we take a vote:
>>
>> http://vote.superduperapps.com/polls/vote/0MeV1qGdEfvambjh
>>
>> (Voting booth is written in Rails and provided by LARuby member Alf
>> Mikula.)
>>
>>
>
> --
> -Coby Randquist
>

I thought this was a nice addition to Rails 2.1:

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f74ba37f4e4175d5a1b31da59d161b0020b58e94

Test/do declaration style testing. For those of us using Test::Unit
and Rails 2.1, we may be able to get a little rspec-ish sugar in our
test code.

Raul

Eric,

Great it was good to meet you, post a link back here to the upcoming info.

Thanks,
-Coby

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Eric Gelinas <eric@...> wrote:
> Just want to thank everybody who organized todays get-together. I can
> tell that we have the foundation of a great community and I am looking
> forward to sharing ideas and learning. As promised, I will take the
> task of adding the next event to Upcoming.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Gelinas
> eric@...
> http://www.standardpixel.com
>
>



--
-Coby Randquist

As a reminder the following Ruby Conferences are on the Horizon:

RubyFringe July 18-20, Toronto Canada

Ruby Nation August 1-2, Herndon, VA

Ruby Hoedown August 8-9, Huntsville, AL

Lonestar Ruby Conference September 4-6, Austin TX

-Coby

Alf,

The Voting App is very cool!

Have you considered turning it into a plugin?

-Coby

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Desmond <desmondsbox-laruby@...> wrote:
> Thursday meet ups don't work super good for me. After the July meet
> up that's already scheduled, can we consider a different day? How
> about we take a vote:
>
> http://vote.superduperapps.com/polls/vote/0MeV1qGdEfvambjh
>
> (Voting booth is written in Rails and provided by LARuby member Alf
> Mikula.)
>
>



--
-Coby Randquist

We did vote.  Last night we agreed to Thursdays as LARuby's meeting
night, didn't we?  Why the second guessing?

Having a consistent meeting night seems important to building the group.



--- In LARuby@yahoogroups.com, "Desmond" <desmondsbox-laruby@...> wrote:
>
> Thursday meet ups don't work super good for me.  After the July meet
> up that's already scheduled, can we consider a different day?  How
> about we take a vote:
>
> http://vote.superduperapps.com/polls/vote/0MeV1qGdEfvambjh
>
> (Voting booth is written in Rails and provided by LARuby member Alf
> Mikula.)
>

Actually this July 17th is pretty imperfect for me also - I've got to
be in Toronto for a conference July 18th and was hoping to be in
Chicago the 17th on the way.

On 6/20/08, Desmond <desmondsbox-laruby@...> wrote:
> Thursday meet ups don't work super good for me.  After the July meet
>  up that's already scheduled, can we consider a different day?  How
>  about we take a vote:
>
>  http://vote.superduperapps.com/polls/vote/0MeV1qGdEfvambjh
>
>  (Voting booth is written in Rails and provided by LARuby member Alf
>  Mikula.)
>
>
>  ------------------------------------
>
>  Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


--
Giles Bowkett

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

Thursday meet ups don't work super good for me.  After the July meet
up that's already scheduled, can we consider a different day?  How
about we take a vote:

http://vote.superduperapps.com/polls/vote/0MeV1qGdEfvambjh

(Voting booth is written in Rails and provided by LARuby member Alf
Mikula.)

Hi all - so, on the topic of open source, both Koz and Technoweenie
from Rails Core have talked about some refactoring they want to do but
haven't been able to get to. Both strongly hinted that successful
refactorings of this nature would be welcome contributions. The only
one I remember at the moment is that the JSON stuff in Rails doesn't
use the JSON parser gem, because the gem is newer, but there are many
of these things. At Scotland on Rails Koz did a whole keynote on
things that could be fixed.

Tackling things like this could be a great way to build the code side
of the group - do a bunch of pair programming, and maybe make the
pairs a little uneven in terms of skill, so that we always have some
teaching going on as well.

--
Giles Bowkett

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org

Thank you to Jody and Reid for their work on this.  See you in July!

JR Fent
jrfent@...

----- Original Message -----

From: Reid MacDonald

To: LARuby@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:04 AM

Subject: Re: [LARuby] Topic proposals for the July 17th meetup.

I think that's a great idea.

reid

On Jun 19, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Jacob Dunphy wrote:

It seemed like there was a lot of enthusiasm about starting the group off and getting things 
moving. I know I'm excited!

This is just a thread to accumulate talk ideas, and discuss how many we'd like to have. 

Here's my proposal. 10-15 minute introduction to contributing to open source projects via 
git and github. Github is a great resource, and is absolutely exploding in popularity within the Ruby community. However, if you haven't had any experience working with git, it can be 
an ordeal to get used to the procedure and the tasks involved.

This wouldn't get into the guts of using git, but would serve as a good starting point for 
making your first patch to a project or just exploring some new code.

-Jacob

Just want to thank everybody who organized todays get-together. I can
tell that we have the foundation of a great community and I am looking
forward to sharing ideas and learning. As promised, I will take the
task of adding the next event to Upcoming.



Thanks,

Eric Gelinas
eric@...
http://www.standardpixel.com

It seems a lot has gone into Caching in Rails 2.1

I just discovered this post that reveals built in memcached support.
I'm pretty close to actually trying this out in production.

http://www.thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/6/9/rails-2-1-now-with-better-integrated-c\
aching

Raul

I just want to reiterate my thanks again for those who arranged this
meet up!  It was great meeting other Ruby/Rails programmers and it
looks to be off to a great start.

Thanks for the great food too!

Raul

It seemed like there was a lot of enthusiasm about starting the group off and
getting things
moving.  I know I'm excited!

This is just a thread to accumulate talk ideas, and discuss how many we'd like
to have.

Here's my proposal.  10-15 minute introduction to contributing to open source
projects via
git and github.  Github is a great resource, and is absolutely exploding in
popularity within the Ruby community.  However, if you haven't had any
experience working with git, it can be
an ordeal to get used to the procedure and the tasks involved.

This wouldn't get into the guts of using git, but would serve as a good starting
point for
making your first patch to a project or just exploring some new code.


-Jacob

We (YPC) have approval to host this every other month. So between the
Times and YPC, I think we have this covered for the foreseeable future. :)

Following the "third Thursday" convention established already, please
put the date of July 17th on your calendar for next month's meetup at
YPC. We can discuss whether that convention should be made official or
not tonight, but I thought I'd go ahead and pin down the July date so
people can plan for it.

For tonight, let's be sure to discuss how we'd like to see this
evolve, now that the basics of having hosts / sponsors is covered. Do
we want to promote it more aggressively? Do we want to invite
presenters? Etc.

Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Regards,
Dan

Hi everyone,

Hopefully we'll be seeing all of you tonight for LARuby's inaugural
meeting at LA Times Interactive.

For those of you driving in for tonight's event, I am providing the
following instructions for parking:

Please park at the LA Times Employee/Guest Parking Structure located
at 213 S. Spring Street.  Let the parking attendant/guard know that
you are attending the "LARuby" event at the LA Times and you will be
allowed to park anywhere above the 1st level.

(Please note Spring is a "one way", southbound running street so
you'll need to be coming from 1st or 2nd St to enter it)

After parking, exit the parking structure onto Spring St. and then
walk up Spring - cross 2nd Street - until you reach the corner of 1st
Street and Spring.  The 202 W. 1st Street entrance will be on your
left.

If anyone has any questions or issues, do not hesitate to call me on
my cell phone at:  323.702.1290

See everyone tonight!  (Remember food and drinks will be provided so
come hungry!)


LARuby Inaugural Meeting

WHEN
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 7:00 PM

WHERE
LA Times Interactive
5th Floor, The Salon
202 West First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

WHO SHOULD COME
Anyone interested in networking or learning or talking about Ruby on
Rails.

WHY
Meet other RoR developers like yourself, network, get some incredible
insights, have some hearty discussions and eat some delicious food -
we've got it all!

EXPECTED ATTENDEES
25 people and counting – RSVP now!

ORGANIZED BY
LA Times Interactive (but we are looking to alternate hosts/locations
for every meeting so let us know if you are interested in hosting our
next meeting!)

MEETING TOPIC
"The Inaugural LARuby Meeting/Post RailsConf Discussion"

Food & beverages will be provided

If you have any questions, please contact Jody at
jody.perez@... or 323.702.1290

Hi Coby,

I am not sure if you have fully relocated to L.A. or not yet but if so, will you
be attending the LARuby Meeting this Thursday night?

Hopefully we'll see you there.

Thanks,

Jody

---- Coby Randquist <coby@...> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Looks like this is a young/new Group.
>
> Let's introduce ourselves and see if we can't get this going.
>
> My name is Coby Randquist, I've been developing with Ruby and Rails
> for a little over two years.  I just took a position with
> Yellowpages.com and am in the process of relocating to Glendale from
> Salt Lake City, UT.
>
> A little over a year ago, my business partner and I started
> Confreaks.com to record technology conferences.  The ruby community
> has been our starting ground.  We have recorded the following
> conferences that are ruby related since we started:
>
> Goruco 2008 - New York, NY
> Mountain West Ruby Conf 2008 - Salt Lake City, UT
> Ruby Conf 2007 - Charlotte, NC
> Ruby Hoedown 2007 - Raleigh, NC
> Mountain West Ruby Conf 2007 - Salt Lake City, UT
>
> Looking forward to getting to know other rubyists in the area.
>
> Since this is such a new group I would recommend doing an [ANN] on
> ruby-talk to help spread the word.
>
> -Coby
>

Hey everybody,

So we are now a week away and counting from LARuby's first meeting!

Just wanted to make sure everyone has it marked on their calendar and
also remind those who haven't already done so to please RSVP (that
way we have plenty of food and drinks for all).

Also, please spread the word to any friends and colleagues who
might be interested in attending as well or simply drag them along.

And make sure to bring your thoughts and ideas with you to share with
the group about how to make LARuby as cool, exciting and sustainable
as possible.  Also, we will be taking suggestions for future
topics/speakers so please come with an idea of what you want to see
and hear at our 2nd meeting!


Here is the announcement again:


LARuby is a new user group created by several passionate Ruby on
Rails developers in the local area in response to Southern
California's quickly growing RoR community. Our goal is for it to
quickly become one of the larger group dedicated to Ruby on Rails -
so join now!

WHEN
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 7:00 PM

WHERE
LA Times Interactive
5th Floor, The Salon
202 West First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

WHO SHOULD COME
Anyone interested in networking or learning or talking about Ruby on
Rails.

WHY
Meet other RoR developers like yourself, network, get some incredible
insights, have some hearty discussions and eat some delicious food -
we've got it all!

EXPECTED ATTENDEES
25 people and counting – RSVP now!

ORGANIZED BY
LA Times Interactive (but we are looking to alternate hosts/locations
for every meeting so let us know if you are interested in hosting our
next meeting!)

MEETING TOPIC
"The Inaugural LARuby Meeting/Post RailsConf Discussion"

Food & beverages will be provided

If you have any questions, please contact Jody at
jody.perez@...

Hi everyone,

I have been meaning to remind everyone that our first meeting is
quickly approaching.

Please try your best to make it (thank you to all who have already
RSVP'd) and please spread the word to any friends and colleagues who
might be interested in attending as well.  Looks like we on track to
have as many as 30 attendees (and growing) for the first meeting
which would be very cool!

Here is the announcement again:


LARuby is a new user group created by several passionate Ruby on
Rails developers in the local area in response to Southern
California's quickly growing RoR community. Our goal is for it to
quickly become one of the larger group dedicated to Ruby on Rails -
so join now!

WHEN
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 7:00 PM

WHERE
LA Times Interactive
5th Floor, The Salon
202 West First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

WHO SHOULD COME
Anyone interested in networking or learning or talking about Ruby on
Rails.

WHY
Meet other RoR developers like yourself, network, get some incredible
insights, have some hearty discussions and eat some delicious food -
we've got it all!

EXPECTED ATTENDEES
25 people and counting – RSVP now!

ORGANIZED BY
LA Times Interactive (but we are looking to alternate hosts/locations
for every meeting so let us know if you are interested in hosting our
next meeting!

MEETING TOPIC
"The Inaugural LARuby Meeting/Post RailsConf Discussion"

Food & beverages will be provided

If you have any questions, please contact Jody at
jody.perez@...

Sadly I haven't made it to a RailsConf yet. I hope to make it out to
the next one.

That's great that LA Times is using Rails! I hope the job pool in L.A.
continues to grow!

See you at the meeting.

Raul


--- In LARuby@yahoogroups.com, "Reid MacDonald" <reid@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!  Did anyone go to railsconf 2008?
>
> My favorite sessions/tutorials was on Metaprogramming for Fun and
> Profit, Getting Git, Map Reduce (Skynet from Geni), and the Lightning
> Talks on Sunday.
>
> I'd love to hear everyone's experiences.
>
> I work at LA Times on products written in Rails.I've worked with Rails
> I guess for about 3 years now, just before the 1.0 release and have
> built a few sites at my previous job at EarthLink.  I live in Pasadena
> but somehow missed the Pasadena Ruby Brigade meetups.
>
> I met some LA area folks at railsconf including awesome folks at
> Yellow Pages, CPO, Bitscribe, Geni, Google, and ESPN.  A very good
> turnout from SoCal.
>
> I have a rails blog that I share with my friend Dewey at
> http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/ and I'm on twitter:
> http://twitter.com/reidmix
>
> Talk to everyone soon and I hope to see you at the meetup.
> reid
>

Hello everyone!  Did anyone go to railsconf 2008?

My favorite sessions/tutorials was on Metaprogramming for Fun and
Profit, Getting Git, Map Reduce (Skynet from Geni), and the Lightning
Talks on Sunday.

I'd love to hear everyone's experiences.

I work at LA Times on products written in Rails.I've worked with Rails
I guess for about 3 years now, just before the 1.0 release and have
built a few sites at my previous job at EarthLink.  I live in Pasadena
but somehow missed the Pasadena Ruby Brigade meetups.

I met some LA area folks at railsconf including awesome folks at
Yellow Pages, CPO, Bitscribe, Geni, Google, and ESPN.  A very good
turnout from SoCal.

I have a rails blog that I share with my friend Dewey at
http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/ and I'm on twitter:
http://twitter.com/reidmix

Talk to everyone soon and I hope to see you at the meetup.
reid

Hi everyone,

My name is Raul Rubio and I live in Whittier, CA. I've been using
Rails full time for close to a year with a company in Azusa, CA.
(http://ww1.bankspower.com) and have also done a couple of freelance
sites with Rails and currently working on a couple more.

I currently work solo so I'm really anxious to meet some other Ruby on
Rails programmers. I also want to be part of a development team one
day when I grow up. ;)

See you all at the meeting!

Announcing the Inaugural meeting for LARuby – the new, local Ruby on
Rails user group!

LARuby is a new user group created by several passionate Ruby on
Rails developers in the local area in response to Southern
California's quickly growing RoR community. Our goal is for it to
quickly become one of the larger group dedicated to Ruby on Rails -
so join now!

WHEN
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 7:00 PM

WHERE
LA Times Interactive
5th Floor, The Salon
202 West First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

WHO SHOULD COME
Anyone interested in networking or learning or talking about Ruby on
Rails.

WHY
Meet other RoR developers like yourself, network, get some incredible
insights, have some hearty discussions and eat some delicious food -
we've got it all!

EXPECTED ATTENDEES
15 people and counting – RSVP now!

ORGANIZED BY
LA Times Interactive (but we are looking to alternate hosts/locations
for every meeting so let us know if you are interested in hosting our
next meeting!

MEETING TOPIC
"The Inaugural LARuby Meeting/Post RailsConf Discussion"

Food & beverages will be provided

Hello all.

Looks like this is a young/new Group.

Let's introduce ourselves and see if we can't get this going.

My name is Coby Randquist, I've been developing with Ruby and Rails
for a little over two years.  I just took a position with
Yellowpages.com and am in the process of relocating to Glendale from
Salt Lake City, UT.

A little over a year ago, my business partner and I started
Confreaks.com to record technology conferences.  The ruby community
has been our starting ground.  We have recorded the following
conferences that are ruby related since we started:

Goruco 2008 - New York, NY
Mountain West Ruby Conf 2008 - Salt Lake City, UT
Ruby Conf 2007 - Charlotte, NC
Ruby Hoedown 2007 - Raleigh, NC
Mountain West Ruby Conf 2007 - Salt Lake City, UT

Looking forward to getting to know other rubyists in the area.

Since this is such a new group I would recommend doing an [ANN] on
ruby-talk to help spread the word.

-Coby