WNY Ruby User Group

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Date: Tuesday, Dev 9th at 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Location: UB Technology Incubator
Host: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Topics

• Rails Deployment Open Discussion

• Microelectronics and Ruby Redux

• Pizza and chat!

RSVP & Directions

Tell us if you’re attending at the meetup.com WNY Ruby group.

Directions to the UB Tech Incubator / AMS.

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Date: Tuesday, Nov 11th at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Topics

tbd

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Date: Tuesday, Oct 14th at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Snacks and drinks will be available.

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Quick reminder, we’re meeting next Tuesday at 7:00 PM.

Addison-Wesley contacted me, and we’ve been given one free pass to Voices that Matter: Ruby 2008, a conference in Boston, MA that runs from Nov 17-20, 2008. The pass is a $795 dollar value, and will be given away in a lottery, so don’t miss out! This conference is being organized by Obie Fernandez, so it’s sure to be awesome.

They’ve also assigned us a group discount code, please let me know at the meeting if you’d like it - $200 off regular price admission.

See you there!

(see the original meet-up announcement for planned details)

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Date: Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Pizza will be available at 7:30.

If you’re interested in attending, and have any questions, please contact Jim Lindley

Topics

• Electronics and Microcontrollers
• Intro to jQuery (Javascript)
• Code Review

On a sad note, and partially explaining the poor planning of August’s meetings, we’ve lost one of our members, Luke Knowley, to cancer. A bad situation, best wishes to his family.

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Date: Tuesday, August 12th at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Topics

• Javascript and Rails
• Inject, Select, Detect, Reject
• Code Review

For the *ect methods, we have a homework git repository at http://github.com/kcbaird/wnyruby.com-homework/tree/master, which also has some information about the problem of Unification, which Mark will go into in greater detail. Just grab either of the spec files and go to town making your own implementations. Email Kevin at kbaird@academicmanagement.com with any questions.

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Date: Tuesday, July 22nd at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

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It was a good meeting. I (Kevin) spoke briefly about will_paginate, but the majority of the meeting was Mark Josef leading us through some ideas on the history of function calls from GOTO to more recent ideas like Ruby's method_missing, as well as some interesting variations on the Observer Design Pattern in Cocoa.

There was a talk by Patrick Farley at MountainWest RubyConf2008 on Ruby Internals (video at http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/11farley.htm) that goes into detail on some similar topics in relation to Ruby.

The first chapter of Brad Ediger's Advanced Rails also goes into similar details about Ruby's implementation of method calls.

Both of these examples mainly deal with MRI (Matz' Ruby Interpreter), FYI.

Thanks, Mark.

The meeting on 7/8 was cancelled at the last minute due to various illnesses and scheduling conflicts.

We’ll be back on track shortly, and at the next meeting we’ll start to collect phone numbers and email addresses in case of emergency, should a meeting ever be cancelled again.

Sorry to all, and sorry especially for the unavoidable lack of notice.

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Date: Tuesday, July 8th at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Sub tray will be ordered, please bring a couple bucks to chip in if you’re interested.

Kevin has posted the homework that he and Mark will be discussing at this meeting as a GitHub repository called WNYRuby.com-homework. Either clone it (if you know git), or just browse and look at the Spec files for the Looper problem and the Unification problem. Don’t grab the regular looper.rb and rev_moon.rb unless you want to see Kevin’s solutions to the problems.

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Date: Tuesday, June 17th at 6:00 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Pizza will be ordered, please bring a couple bucks to chip in if you’re interested.

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Date: Tuesday, May 13th at 6:00 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Pizza will be ordered, please bring a couple bucks to chip in if you’re interested.

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Date: Monday, March 10th at 6:00 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

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Date: Monday, January 7th at 7:00 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

Sessions

A few formal presentations will be given, topics include Capistrano (automated deployment tool), Ruby blocks and procs, and functional programming. There will also be opportunity for socializing and informal discussion. Our last meetup has a dozen participants, from several local companies.

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Please join us at Spot Coffee in downtown Buffalo at 7pm for a 1 to 2 hour event. It will be held in the side room off the main café. We will be presenting short sessions on Ruby topics, including an intro to Ruby, the Merb framework, testing with RSpec, and an overview of blocks and procs in Ruby.

If you might attend, send me an email: jim - at - jimlindley - com, so that I can get a rough head count for planning purposes. You can also join our mailing list if you’d like to receive announcements about upcoming events.

Hope to see you there!