State College Ruby Group Google Group

Re: [state-college-ruby] Re: Slick printing from Rails apps

scott.a.wo...@gmail.com (Scott Woods) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:52:15 UT

Looks like the original [link] URL may work better than
herokugarden.com for now (they'll eventually move the free hosting
over to the latter URL).

For everyone: If they're still putting people on a waiting list when
you sign up for an account, drop me a line, and I'll send you an

Re: [state-college-ruby] Slick printing from Rails apps

scott.a.wo...@gmail.com (Scott Woods) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:47:42 UT

Hey Jason,

Yeah, that was a fun meeting. Clint's Shoes demo was awesome!

Glad you have everything up and running on the netbook. I was going to
suggest that if you were having any trouble at all, the easiest way to
try things out is to open up Firefox and sign up for a free account on [link]

Slick printing from Rails apps

ma...@dm.org (Jason Maas) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:32:07 UT

Hi all,
Fun meeting last night, thanks! Somehow I missed the discussion on
Meetup leading up to the meeting. I'll post here and see if this works
better:
Scott - yes, I have a decent Rails development environment - latest
Ubuntu with Rails v2.2.2 installed as explained in Agile Web Development

Re: [state-college-ruby] Ruby Proficiency!

ma...@dm.org (Jason Maas) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:13:45 UT

Hi Clint,
Thanks for the link. I'm definitely a Novice. :) I need to get a
regular Rails time into my weekly schedule if I'm going to get anywhere.
I did get to hack on a Python script at work this week though so that
was fun. It's a step in the right direction from my usual system
administration & helpdesk work.

Ruby Proficiency!

creativeemba...@gmail.com (CreativeEmbassy) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:33:45 UT

I was 'advanced beginner' a few months ago. I believe I am
'proficient' now. What are you?

[link]

Ruby Meetup for September

creativeemba...@gmail.com (CreativeEmbassy) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:48:07 UT

What a fun night! Scott, Jason, John and I were present. Here's a link
farm of stuff discussed this evening.

Hackintosh:
[link]

Testing, TDD, and BDD
rSpec: [link]
Shoulda: [link]

That new form of touchscreen input I talked about.

BDD and TDD - What are they for?

creativeemba...@gmail.com (CreativeEmbassy) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:28:37 UT

I'd like someone to give me very basic reasons for why I need Behavior
Driven Development (BDD, see RSpec) and/or Test Driven Development
(TDD, See Test::Unit).

I'm a fairly competent programmer. I think I use what they call an
"iterative" style of programming; I don't rush out to build the entire

Re: Salutations

creativeemba...@gmail.com (CreativeEmbassy) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:06:40 UT

I was typing up a lengthy introduction to the problem, when I came
upon the solution on my own. Here's the pastie: [link]

Essentially, I was creating tables, with each row in a table tied to a
hash in an array (almost how ActiveRecord does it). But each table was
separated by the "ScheduleDate" key in each hash, and I needed to come

Re: [state-college-ruby] Salutations

scott.a.wo...@gmail.com (Scott Woods) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:56:17 UT

Hi Clinton,
Looking forward to your demo at the meetup. Glad to hear you figured
out the issue. If you're happy with the result, it'd be great to see
the solution too :)
For everyone else, here's the info for the August meetup this
Wednesday evening:
[link]

Salutations

creativeemba...@gmail.com (CreativeEmbassy) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:41:29 UT

Hey everyone! I'm somewhat new to the State College Ruby Group, but
I've been talking for a while to Scott Woods and he suggested we start
this group up again. Hopefully I'll see you all at the meetup this
Wednesday.

Oh, and there was a problem I had. PASTIE: [link]
But I just solved it on my own, so never mind. :-)

Re: Reasons, motivations, and ambitions for learning R(oR) [reposted from statecollegeruby.org]

andrei.shindya...@gmail.com (Andrew Shindyapin) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:39:31 UT

Hey Matt,
Thanks for the feedback!
I also had trouble with the OpenID login, I think maybe there's
something wrong with the way myopenid.org and statecollegeruby.org
talk to each other. I'm just using my own login for now.
Don't be discouraged about not being tech savvy; the good news is that
it's really easy to achieve that savviness. As I found out, you can do

Re: Reasons, motivations, and ambitions for learning R(oR) [reposted from statecollegeruby.org]

matt...@gmail.com (Matt Swayne) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:24:14 UT

Hey Andrew and all--
Thanks for posting this here. I'm having trouble with the log-in on the SC
Ruby site. I can't seem to figure out the OpenID log-in.
So, that may not bode well for my ambitions to become more tech savvy...
Anyway.
My ambitions for learning RoR are similar to yours, although I am really

Reasons, motivations, and ambitions for learning R(oR) [reposted from statecollegeruby.org]

andrei.shindya...@gmail.com (Andrew Shindyapin) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:15:44 UT

Since most of the members are still using google groups, I thought I'd
repost here.
I'd like to make a thread that lets each one of us members talk about
their reasons and motivations for learning Ruby (on Rails). Here are
mine:
After leaving my last startup (i-conserve.com), I have been working on
an idea for a learning website. The idea is this: a website for

Re: Pizza Survey

scott.a.wo...@gmail.com (Scott Woods) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:44:36 UT

That'd be awesome. Thank you!
Yep, the date's nailed down. Wednesday, September 12 at 7pm at 200
Innovation Blvd. Details are here:
[link]

Re: Pizza Survey

anthonystauf...@gmail.com (Anthony Stauffer) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:13:24 UT

I may be the lone ranger here, but Papa John's has always been my favorite.
Definitely not the highest on the classy scale, but when you're in the mood
for greasy pizza.......