Technical Topics for Next Meetup

[Garland William Binns III]

Hey all! Ok, so anyone have any technical topics or issues they are working on or implementations they'd like to share w/ the rest of the group? We can select 2-3 to discuss the next time we get together, in addition to discussing here. Feel free to start your own thread or reply to this one.

[Jose Boza]

How about postgres? 

[Daniel Alberto Cañas]

I'd like to get everyones opinions on Ruby tips and best practices.

I wen to ruby tapas that Jose (I think) mentioned and followed the links to Avdi Grimm's blog, specifically http://devblog.avdi.org/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/

He specifically mentions one point, monkey patching. Many books tout Ruby's dynamic nature and how you can use meta programming and open classes to create these cool DSLs, in the process they end up violating many OO programming principles.

I'd like to hear what design principles or Ruby constructs/idioms have been useful in real world experience. And what restraints should be undertaken to avoid shooting oneself in the foot (ex. Avoid using these constructs in this way for this reason)

For example, I think blocks in Ruby are awesome, and finally understanding them, a light bulb went on and all I can say is wow. 

On Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:01:44 AM UTC-6, Garland William Binns III wrote:

[Pablo Jiménez Vélez]

Ok here are some of the topics I have been investigating lately:

postgres or mysql?

deploy to Heroku or VPS?
attribute encryption is is worth it?

UI frameworks: twitter bootstrap, angular, fundation

On Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:01:44 AM UTC-6, Garland William Binns III wrote:

[Garland William Binns III]

Hey Daniel, I saw this on GitHub and thought it might be helpful to you:

https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide

[Jose Boza]

here is another one. https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/master/style