October Meetup

[Stephen Lloyd-Hirst]

There is a total of eight people from Sage going to the MagRails
conference (www.magrails.com) on the 14th October and alos some going
to the DOJO event on the Saturday. I think this would be a good topic
at the October meetup to discuss what we have learnt, new techniques,
etc...

Ideas from Paul (previously posted under September meetup):

* building gems? Has anyone got halfbaked bits of code we can
collectively adopt and release as a gem? Eg I have hacked exception
notifier to log exception info to basecamp and it would be nice to
make it reusable and to get it to link to other management tools.

* refactoring - looking at code analysis tools, and at techniques for
improving code. It'd be fun to take real snippets too and discuss how
to improve them, eg using better abstractions.

[Philip Poots]

Sorry, reposting from Sept. discussion so it is in the correct thread.

+1 for MagRails catchup

+1 for code stuff from Paul

Damian has an html5 validation gem that he put together a few weeks
ago:
https://github.com/damian/html5_validator

Eamon at Sage had a holiday calendar he was working on, that might be
able to have wider use:
https://github.com/etskelly/holiday_machine

I am thinking of putting together a gem (Rails plugin) that does
liking/+1 functionality that is leaner than what is currently on
offer. i.e. without a 1-5 rating, (https://github.com/azabaj/
acts_as_rateable) and without a dislike (https://github.com/umerfarooq/
acts_as_likeable) and not for loads of types of models (https://
github.com/ryanto/acts_as_votable) only for User. Sure I could do it
with one of those, but it would be cool to build my own, and keep it
in Unix style, do one thing and one thing well.


Philip

On 28 Sep, 16:11, Stephen Lloyd-Hirst <stephen.lloydhi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Lee Irving]

Sounds good to me. Also we can look at embedded apps/engines that came into play with 3.1 should fit in nicely with the gem creation stuff

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[Philip Poots]

Hi all,

I've just got an email through from Firenze Jesmond Pizza who are
doing one-off free pizza for us on Tuesday 25th. They would like to
get an idea of numbers for the event, so could we all get are plus
ones in by the end of the day and I'll get back to them (with a couple
extra ;) ).

Philip

[Paul Callaghan]

Don't all rush now!

+1 from me

preference to hear about MagRails etc - my suggestions can certainly
wait for another time.

Paul

[Stephen Lloyd-Hirst]

Count me in. Not going to be much to talk about re magrails as half the conference about agile.

[Luke Brown]

I'm in.

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[Joanna Matthewman]

+1

Jo

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:34:33 +0100
Subject: Re: [ncl.rb] Re: October Meetup
From: stephen.l...@gmail.com
To: ncl...@googlegroups.com

[Paul Regnart]

I can definitely make the 25th.
Pizza is a strong motivator for me!

Regnart

[Dave.E]

I'll be there.

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[Jonty]

+1 from me

jonty

[Jonty]

aargh, sorry -1, forgot I am away that week :-(

jonty

[Paul Callaghan]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Stephen Lloyd-Hirst
<stephen.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Count me in. Not going to be much to talk about re magrails as half the
> conference about agile.

Anything interesting from the related dojo event? How about something on koans?

Paul

[Tobias Haar]

+1

Tobias

[Martyn Taylor]

+1 : Apologies for late reply

[kai]

Count me for a Pizza+

I just installed RoR and now trying to make it work with WAMP, then
need work out what I need to do to deploy an app on the server.



Kai

[Peter Coulton]

+1

[Damian Nicholson]

+1

On 17 October 2011 21:37, Peter Coulton <peterc...@gmail.com> wrote:

+1

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[Fiona]

Can I come too?

[Philip Poots]

Yes, please do. Unfortunately I have to fly to the Netherlands on Tuesday so I won't be able to make it, or taste the pizza :(

I have emailed Jim, from Firenze Jesmond and given him James Dean Shepherds contact details. So if there's no pizza, he'll have stashed it for breakfast.

On 20 October 2011 16:27, Fiona <fiona.m....@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I come too?

[Phil Lee]

+1

On Oct 20, 9:45 pm, Philip Poots <philip.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, please do. Unfortunately I have to fly to the Netherlands on Tuesday so
> I won't be able to make it, or taste the pizza :(
>
> I have emailed Jim, from Firenze Jesmond and given him James Dean Shepherds
> contact details. So if there's no pizza, he'll have stashed it for
> breakfast.
>

[James Dean Shepherd]

Not going to put a +1 as I'm lactose intolerant so will be avoiding the pizza (and anyway, the order has already been placed for a handsome number of pizzas).  Guess that means there's more for the rest of you...

Look forward to seeing you all there.

[John Butler]

I cant make this tonight so no free pizza for me, gutted! Its just an
open floor tonight by the looks of things. Talking about magrails,
creating a gem, etc etc etc