December 2007 Archives

The next ChicagoRuby.org meeting will be held Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 3pm. Our agenda:

Drop by Meetup.com to RSVP and for location info. See you there!

Posted by ChicagoRuby.org on Dec 27, 2007

Twelve ChicagoRuby.org members defeated the December snow to participate a lively discussion of DSLs, Agile Web Development, and GigaFloat.

Thanks to DeForest Creative Group, Ltd for providing the meeting space. Thanks also to our presenters: Wil Chung, Bobby Jacob, and Victor Hong.

Next meeting: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 3pm. Details to follow. Enjoy the holidays!

Posted by ChicagoRuby.org on Dec 15, 2007

The Chicago Drupal Meetup Group has invited ChicagoRuby.org members to a Holiday Social.

Their site, powered by Drupal, has details.

Posted by ChicagoRuby.org on Dec 13, 2007

Next meeting: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 3pm.

[35 min] Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) – DSLs are a new name for an old thing. You could use bison/flex/yacc to generate compilers that interpret your own mini-language. However, Ruby’s syntax and metaprogramming capabilities makes it conducive to doing it within Ruby itself. DSLs makes it easy to write powerful systems. Wil Chung will show you how.

[45 min] Agile Overview presented by by Bobby Jacob. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll appreciate this installment of the Agile Web Development With Rails series. Rails veterans will benefit from the refresher.

[30 min] GigaFloat – Victor Hong will take us on a tour of GigaFloat.com, his own Rails/Hobo-based project. Learn the practicial aspects of developing and deploying a Rails-based project: hosting choices, tricks of capistrano/deprec, backup/restore all of your data, email generation and setup, some useful plugins, and more.

Please be sure to RSVP at Meetup.com so we know how many to expect. See you there!

Posted by ChicagoRuby.org on Dec 04, 2007