April 21st Meeting. New To The Group? Topics? Interests?

[k...@metaskills.net]

Are you new to the group? We love to hear who are and maybe where you
are at with Ruby/Rails. Ideas for the upcoming 21st meetup?

[chrisrhoden]

Well, it seems pretty likely that I am the only new person here, and I
am not the type who will be able to make any suggestions until after I
have seen a meeting to get a sense of the way things work. Here is who
I am:

I am Chris Rhoden(@chrisrhoden), a Sysadmin for InMotion Hosting and a
free-time programmer until I can get paid to do it. I had tried ruby a
number of times, including at the height of Rails' popularity, and
decided that it wasn't for me. Then, I read some books and learned
Ruby and I fell in love because of the OOP aspects of it, which I had
not really gotten a handle on previously. I am still not a huge fan of
Rails, though I think I am starting to get it.

I am young and stupid and reckless. I love programming more than
anything else, and recently, I have loved programming in Ruby most of
all.

[Ken Collins]

Chris,

This is great to know! I thought about doing a proposed talk to the
local Unix User Group about how ruby can be used for general sysadmin
stuff and scripting. In fact there is even a book out by the Pragmatic
guys called "Everyday Scripting with Ruby", although I never found it
too interesting.

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/bmsft/everyday-scripting-with-ruby

On the topic of talks. I did one some months back about OO Javascript
that touched very heavily on the Ruby object model since that is what
Prototype looks to mimic. See this PDF of the presentation:

http://757rb.googlegroups.com/web/OO+JavaScript+Class+Construction.pdf?gda=x_ic-lYAAABnTTJKHzDd3rjLCXugtklB6vyhejOjL3kSp0gMngwc0iVtCS5zWQxQZV3LwlzNXT-J5WHBHb5Y4oQtVi7ci7A3uKs5kcsO6REWGyCG01VUCBPhGuxsWDLdLep2NLleRSE

Perhaps we could do a meeting that covers some basic of the Ruby
object model and MCV web application building with Rails?


- Ken

[Mike Park]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM, k...@metaskills.net <k...@metaskills.net> wrote:
> Are you new to the group? We love to hear who are and maybe where you
> are at with Ruby/Rails. Ideas for the upcoming 21st meetup?

I've been to one meetup in the fall. You were doing a git demo.

I have only build a few hello worlds in Rails. I use ruby mostly for
gluing things together and wrapping C libraries. I have also used it
for manipulating fortran so that I don't need to deal with it
directly. (Things like http://funit.rubyforge.org/)

I always enjoyed the applications of ruby to web stuff, because that
is outside of my area of expertise.

The latest thing I have done is a lightweight DSL for controlling
simulations run with our fortran code. It is usable, but I'm not happy
with it, so anyone's experiences with creating DSLs would be
interesting.

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Mike Park