Ruby Users of Minnesota

Announcements

• August RUM: August 30th 7PM RSpec and AppEngine

  30 Aug 19:00

  This month:

  • Mike Frawley - Advanced RSpec - underused, new, and awesome features, general test structure (framework agnostic)
  • Luke Francl - A Ruby Developer's Look at App Engine

  Again, Atomic is treating us! We will have pizza and refreshment courtesy Atomic Datacenters (http://www.atomicdatacenters.com/), your friendly neighborhood hosting provider. Come early for pizza (I pick it up around 6:30PM).

  Talks @ 7PM, come early to chat and hack with your fellow Rubyists. Location is, as always, the wonderful Refactr offices (thanks Refactr!) We will also have a hack session and socializing before and after the talks so feel free to stick around.

  -- Tom

• July RUM: July 26th 7PM FunSQL and SQL

  26 Jul 19:00

  A couple of presentations this month:

  • Matt Bauer - FUNSQL, new features in PostgreSQL and power usage of SQL
  • Phil Crissman - RVM

  We will also have a hack session (before and after the session). I will remain at refactr until the last hacker leaves or midnight whichever comes first!

  Talks @ 7PM, come early to chat and hack with your fellow Rubyists. Location is, as always, the wonderful Refactr offices (thanks Refactr!)

  We will have pizza and refreshment courtesy Atomic Datacenters (http://www.atomicdatacenters.com/), your friendly neighborhood hosting provider. Come early for pizza (I pick it up around 6:30PM).

• June RUM: Audio Processing, RailsConf Recap and Hacking

  28 Jun 19:00

  The meeting this month will be a bit different. We have one presentation followed by a discussion on RailsConf and then a hacking session:

  • Ben Ortega will talk "Audio Processing with JRuby"

  After that we will discuss the recent RailsConf, if you attended please consider coming to this meeting and talking. We will also have a hack session. I will remain at refactr until the last hacker leaves or midnight whichever comes first!

  Ben's talk start @ 7PM, come early to chat and hack with your fellow Rubyists. Location is, as always, the wonderful Refactr offices (thanks Refactr!)

  We will again have pizza and refreshment courtesy The Foundation (http://www.fndtn.com/) Come early for pizza (delivered around 6:30PM).

• May RUM

  24 May 19:00

  The meeting this month is a week early due to Memorial Day. As always 2 presentations:

  • Jon Dahl will talk to us about writing threaded apps in Ruby
  • Subramanya Sastry will discuss his javascript widget library (http://github.com/subbuss/jsWidgets) and http://newsrack.in

  Talks start @ 7PM, come early to chat and hack with your fellow Rubyists. Location is, as always, the wonderful Refactr offices (thanks Refactr!)

  I'm excited to announce that we have full sponsorship this month from The Foundation (http://www.fndtn.com/) Come early for pizza (delivered around 6:30PM) and cold beverages.

• April RUM: Jruby, Duby, Ruboto and Coffeescript

  26 Apr 19:00

  2 presentations this month.

  • Charlie Nutter will be talking "Exxtreme Updates on JRuby, Duby, and Ruboto"
  • Dan Grigsby will show us Coffeescript

  Talks start @ 7PM, come early to chat with your fellow Rubyists.

  Location is, as always, the wonderful Refactr offices (thanks Refactr!)

  Again this month, big thanks to Recursive Awesome, top-notch mobile and web dev consulting based in Minneapolis, for providing beverages.

  You might want to eat prior to the meeting or plan to join the group after the meeting downstairs at the Bulldog.

  --Tom