I was just cheking our group stats, and we have over 100 people on the mailing list without noticing! We have 112 people on the list now. I like the group...
Group, Harvard Group has been contracted by AARP to put together a team to build a"bleeding edge" website for their 35 million members. The technologies they...
If you are going to RubyConf 2006, please email me. I had a blast at last years Ruby Conference. We lived and breathed Ruby from 8am to 2am - three days in a...
I am having a problem with ActiveRecord running a lot of queries that seem un-necessary in a parent-child relationship. So I have two ActiveRecord objects,...
Hello all - Just a reminder that we're meeting this Wednesday at the FGM headquarters; Paul Stadig will give a presentation on connecting Ruby to Java with...
OReilly has released the Ruby Cookbook as a PDF file for $25.00. With the help of a little Google love, I was able to find a discount code: DSUG You can get...
does anyone have any recommendations for a ruby toolkit that i could use to read pdf's and office documents? I'm trying to build an indexer, and while i can...
Would anyone be interested in getting Justin and Stu to give a demo/presentation of Streamlined? Maybe we could get them here for the September meeting? Carl...
Is there any interest in Ruby<->Java bridge as a RUG topic? I've ended up doing quite a bit of this for work to get access to the XMLBeans library (I've found...
There's a book review of David Black's "Ruby for Rails" up on Slashdot: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/1439202 It's a fine book; kind of a...
Hello, I'm a Ruby-Nuby with other language experience (Perl, Unix shell scripting, proprietary scripting languages, Java, C, C++ and Fortran). I live and work...
The act_as_state_machine plugin which as per google resides @ lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2006/01/21/acts-as-state-machine is not accessible and...
At the last NovaRUG meeting, several topics were mentioned as candidates for future talks. As already mentioned on this list, at the June 28 meeting Tom...
Hello everyone - I just wanted to post quickly and say hi. My name is Jamie, and I've just recently gotten started with Ruby. I've been an Oracle DBA for 6...
As I said in my introduction, I've been an Oracle DBA for 6 years or so, so my natural inclination is to try to use Ruby with Oracle. Whenever I hear about...
Hi everyone, RailsConf is coming up next month in Chicago, and as you may remember, the conference sold out in just a couple of days. I have purchased one...
Hi all - Just FYI, we're moving novarug.org over to a new machine tonight, so the site may be unavailable for a few hours while the DNS change propagates. ...
Hi all - It's pretty nice that we've got a firm date for the next meeting, good times. And I'm looking forward to hearing what Xandy has to say about Rake. ...
Hey all! Being that its that time of month with NovaRUG scheduled for this Wednesday (May 17th) I was thinking of speaking on my Alph library which bridges...
I just found out about a local training event; rails training on the cheap, from those 'in the know', with proceeds to benefit an underfunded public high...
The April NovaRUG meeting is going to happen this Wednesday night April 19 at FGM with talks starting at 7:00pm and going until 9:00 or so. InfoEther will...
This is kind of a follow up on the presentation/discussion at the meeting, not so much related to metaprogramming as just Ruby in general. Ok, so everything is...
Yo. I've been meaning to put together a Ruby presentation for a while now -- tentatively entitled, "The Tao of Metaprogramming (or ActiveRecord's Not Black...
