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Pub night

Tuesday, September 07 2010 at 06:00PM

Everyone interested in ruby or web development is encouraged to join us for a pint. Please note that this is a social event, not a user group. There will be no technical demonstrations and (probably) no laptops or hacking.

Going off the Rails with Padrino and Sequel by Paul Barry

Tuesday, September 14 2010 at 07:00PM

Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great! Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby that also provides a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records. Paul will show how both these libraries are built up from a solid core and how they can be used together as a powerful framework for building web applications. Paul blogs about life at http://paulbarry.com/, tweets about the rest at @pjb3 and makes a living at LivingSocial.com. Nick Gauthier will be presenting the second in his series of lightning talks collectively titled "KnowSQL," a wakeup call for all those drinking the NoSQL kool-aid. Bryan Liles will also be giving a lightning talk on "10 things you most likely aren't doing with Redis."

Ruby Open Source Hack Night

Tuesday, September 28 2010 at 07:00PM

It's that time again! Come out for a Ruby Open Source Hack Night at Beehive Baltimore. Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. In the past few meetups, participants have worked on: Resque - http://github.com/defunkt/resque Cucumber - http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/ js_exception_notification - http://github.com/jtrupiano/js_exception_notification hydra - http://github.com/ngauthier/hydra acts_as_solr - http://github.com/mattmatt/acts_as_solr presently-cli - http://github.com/PaulOstazeski/presently-cli Factory Girl - http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl Seed Fu - http://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu Gemcutter - http://github.com/qrush/gemcutter There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn.

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