Ruby Users of Minnesota

Announcements

• RUM May 2013 - jRuby MUD, Ruby & Rails Debugging

  05/20/13 02:00PM

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  • NOTE THE EARLY DATE DUE TO MEMORIAL DAY *

  May's meeting will be ONE WEEK EARLY, this coming Monday, May 20th at 7pm. Food and drinks will arrive at 6:30. Show up early to hack, chat, and hang out with like-minded rubyists.

  Please register for food and drinks! http://rum2013.eventbrite.com

  I can't change the meeting date/time on Eventbrite, so just register for the date listed as the 27th.

  This month's speakers:

  • Mark Nutter will present a jRuby MUD game he has been developing.

  • Cory Preus will talk about various techniques for debugging your Ruby/RoR apps

  This month's sponsors TBD :)

• April RUM 2013 - TDDing Rails Engines, Scaling Ruby for the Enterprise

  04/29/13 02:00PM

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  This month's meeting will be Monday, April 29th at SmartThings HQ:

  11 Fourth Street NE, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55413

  Pizza & Drinks will show up around 6:30pm. Show up early, code/hack, and socialize with fellow rubyists!

  Please register so we know how much pizza to buy!

  http://rum2013.eventbrite.com/

  This month's presentations:

  • Justin Coyne will present "Developing Rails Engines with TDD"

  • John Malone and Joel Jensen will be presenting "Scaling Ruby for Enterprise Applications"

  This month's sponsors:

  • Atomic Data (www.atomicdata.com) - Server hosting and colocation services. A great place to colocate your servers!

  • Zencoder (www.zencoder.com) - Fast video transcoding in the cloud.

• RUM March 2013

  03/25/13 02:00PM

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  We're coming out the other side of winter! The snow is melting, birds are singing, and flowers are emerging from the gr- oh wait, we still have a couple feet of snow on the ground. Nevermind!

  Come escape the cold and snow at this month's meeting! Monday, March 25th at 7pm. Pizza and drinks will show up around 6:30.

  Show up early to hack, chat, get advice, and socialize.

  Location: SmartThings 11 Fourth Street NE #300 Minneapolis, MN 55413

  Please sign up at http://rum2013.eventbrite.com/

  This month's sponsor is Zencoder (www.zencoder.com) - Fast video transcoding in the cloud.

  This month's talks:

  • Web challenge recap! There were no less than 4 teams at the web challenge who built sites built on Ruby technology. We'll have representatives from two of the teams: the official Ruby.MN web challenge team, and the Department of Sleepless Creation, talk about their experience at the challenge and show off the before and after results from the challenge.

  • Derek Rockwell will be going over all the new stuff in Rails 4, and possibly touch on some Ruby 2.0 goodies.

• RUM February 2013

  02/25/13 01:00PM

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  This month's meeting will be Monday, February 25th at 7pm.

  Please sign up at http://rum2013.eventbrite.com/ <<<

  Location: Refactr HQ:11 Fourth Street NE, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55413

  Pizza and drinks will show up around 6:30pm. Come early to hack, chat, and network!

  This month's talks:

  • Kevin Whinnery will present the Twilio cloud communications API and the official Twilio Ruby gem.

    The Twilio APIs make it really easy for developers to make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and embed VoIP functionality into web and native mobile apps. We will explore how to use this functionality in a Ruby application, and how to test locally using the Twilio-sponsored localtunnel Ruby gem.

  • Cory Preus will present an iOS game he's been developing in his free time using RubyMotion and the Objective-C library to Firebase.

  This month's sponsors:

  • Arux Software
  • Refactr

• January 2013 RUM

  01/28/13 01:00PM

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  2013's first meeting will be held Monday, January 28th at 7pm at Refactr HQ.

  Address: 11 Fourth Street NE, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55413

  Pizza and drinks will show up around 6:30pm. Come early to chat and hack!

  Eventbrite registration will return in February

  This month's topics:

  • Dave Collins will be presenting "Arduino and Ruby - pros and cons"

  • Weston Platter will be presenting "Transforming Plugins into Engines."

  Rails 4 will deprecate Rails 2.3 style plugins. If you have plugins with extensive tie-ins to your Rails app, you may want to consider converting the plugin to a fulll-on Rails Engine. To help you kick-start the process, Weston will give a brief overview of Rails Engines, walk through how a production grade plugin was transformed into a Rails Engine, and highlight lessons learned.

  This month's meeting is brought to you by:

  Atomic Data Centers - www.atomicdata.com - Server hosting and colocation services. A great place to colocate your servers!

  ReachLocal - www.reachlocal.com - ReachLocal is a large publicly-traded company who offers online marketing, social media, and contact management tools and services to small and medium sized businesses. They are headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA with software development teams in Woodland Hills, Santa Ana, and Minneapolis.

  Refactr (www.refactr.com) - Our ever-generous hosts for meeting space. They also do so much I can't put it all into one sentence