This month's meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 13th at Sermo, 215
First Ave, Cambridge. About two blocks from the old location at the
CIC. The meeting runs from 7 to 9pm, but you can arrive after 6:30.

Meeting Notice:
http://boston.rubygroup.org/articles/2008/05/01/may-meeting-new-location
Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=1st+street,+cambridge,+ma...

This meeting is sponsored by Viximo, http://www.viximo.com

Agenda:
    * Mark Bates will be presenting the Mack Framework. Mack is a Ruby
web framework being designed for distributed, portal-like
applications, using 'best of breed' technologies and form, with an
emphasis on performance.
    * Daniel Higginbotham will be presenting a tool he developed,
Palmist, that is used to optimize MySQL databases on Rails sites.
Check it out at svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/logviewer
    * Jonathan Barket will be presenting restful-authorization, an
authorization and workflow mechanism built on top of
restful_authentication.

Many Thanks to:
    * Viximo for sponsoring the meeting.
    * Sermo for providing the venue and all the food and drinks.
    * EngineYard for providing a host for group projects.
    * Brian Delacey and John Norman for helping out,( producing the
videos, finding speakers, ...)