Still active?

[BGarr]

Hi,
I'm a lone Rails developer at Georgetown University, and I just ran
across this group. Is there any interest in getting discussions going
again?

Bill Garr

[Brian Hogan]

I'm always interested in hearing things from this group.

Nice to meet you, Bill. I'm at UW-Eau Claire (www.uwec.edu)

[Aaron Sumner]

Hi Bill--thank you for joining the group. Yes, we're still active; it just seems to come in bursts.

If I recall correctly, when we did our initial round of introductions most people were educators interested in teaching with Ruby. Nice to meet another developer--what kind of work do you do at Georgetown?

Aaron

On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:52 AM, BGarr wrote:

[Michael McDermott]

Hi Bill,

It is in bursts and it is topical.  I think you highlight that the list is not under the penumbra of a higher education organization and so how does the list achieve a wider audience or wider awareness.  Absent time to promote it, I don't have a good answer.

Mike from Brown (and a Hoya from way back in the day).

Mike

[Bill Garr]

Hi everyone,

Glad to hear there are folks still following. I'm likely to only be doing Rails stuff, but I hope to have some more generally-interesting ruby stuff to talk about . I am working on a authorization/scaffolding tool that involves writing a DSL, so I've been writing to metaclasses, which is really fun. I think this DSL could be particularly useful for campuses that have sufficient tech support to offer some scripting for faculty projects. Thinking of releasing it as a gem as well as embedded in a web app.

Mike, in what direction(s) would you like to broaden the reach of these conversations? Teaching with ruby?

Bill

[Jason Lewis]

Hi everyone,

I wasn't sure if this group was still active, so I hadn't done an intro… so I guess I'll do that now.

I'm a lone Rubyist at Johns Hopkins University. My primary development work (for JHU) involves custom applications to extend Blackboard Transact, using Ruby, Rails, JRuby, and (recently) Clojure. I'm also the current maintainer of the rpam-ruby19<https://rubygems.org/gems/rpam-ruby19> gem, as well as a contributor to a couple of open source projects. There are actually a couple of other departments here doing Ruby development, so I'll encourage those developers to join the list as well.

I'm really excited to see that this group is still alive.

Jason Lewis

Programmer Analyst
ID Card Services
Johns Hopkins University

jlew...@jhu.edu | 410.516.2356

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From: Bill Garr <bgarr.t...@gmail.com<mailto:bgarr.t...@gmail.com>>
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:38:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: [EduRuby:56] Still active?

Hi everyone,
Glad to hear there are folks still following. I'm likely to only be doing Rails stuff, but I hope to have some more generally-interesting ruby stuff to talk about . I am working on a authorization/scaffolding tool that involves writing a DSL, so I've been writing to metaclasses, which is really fun. I think this DSL could be particularly useful for campuses that have sufficient tech support to offer some scripting for faculty projects. Thinking of releasing it as a gem as well as embedded in a web app.

Mike, in what direction(s) would you like to broaden the reach of these conversations? Teaching with ruby?

Bill

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael McDermott <mi...@planetmcd.com<mailto:mi...@planetmcd.com>> wrote:
Hi Bill,
It is in bursts and it is topical. I think you highlight that the list is not under the penumbra of a higher education organization and so how does the list achieve a wider audience or wider awareness. Absent time to promote it, I don't have a good answer.

Mike from Brown (and a Hoya from way back in the day).
Mike

[pho3nixf1re]

I'm still watching this group, as well. I'm the primary (read: lone) developer at the U.S. Sports Academy (ussa.edu). We use Ruby mostly, except for our SIS and LMS (moodle ugh). We are currently looking to move toward implementing Canvas LMS, which is a great Rails based LMS, at which point we'll be just about 100% Ruby. Even our SSO is managed by a Sinatra app (RubyCAS). Considering when I started 3 years ago when the school used classic ASP primarily, it's been a long, fun ride here moving to Ruby.

Glad to have you in the group.

[Bracken]

I'm also always lurking. I'm an engineer at Instructure and I work on Canvas. I'm working on a ruby gem for LTI and will hopefully have it done in the next couple weeks. I'll post here when I have a repository to link to.

[Michael McDermott]

Bill,

I work in Identity and Access Management and in the US, there is an Educause list for IdM.  There are a few projects that deal with specific components of that sector (Shibboleth and Grouper) that have well traffic lists.  They are topical based or project based and they focus on a business area.  Because they re in official spots, they are easy to find.

This list is a bit different in that the uniting theme is a technology regardless of how it might be used.  It is a perfectly fine model for building a community, but the main issue is one of discovery.  If I join a college/university/k-12 as a Ruby developer, how might I find this list?  Its easy to uncover a local RUG.  Its not too hard to find a education thread about blackboard or networking or identity management.  

Mike

[Michael McDermott]

Hi Bracken,

We're moving our LMS to Canvas and using Jruby as part of our event based (realtime-ish) provisioning.

Mike

[Toyokazu Akiyama]

Hi all,

I'm also interested in hearing things from this group.

One of my research and development interests is Identity and Access Management in Kyoto

Sangyo University and Japanese authentication federation GakuNin (https://www.gakunin.jp/en/),

which adopts Shibboleth as authentication and authorization middleware.

I am also interested in using Rails for developing light weight applications.

I wrote omniauth-shibboleth and rack-saml for using Rails with Shibboleth.

--

Toyokazu Akiyama

2012年2月29日19:59 Michael McDermott <mi...@planetmcd.com>: