Next ORUG and Day of Ruby
Gregg Pollack
Our next meeting is one week from now, Thursday, may 14th and will
be held back down at Devry room #114. Food will be at 6 PM thanks to
sponsorship by Engine Yard (and I'll be handing out free Engine Yard
T-shirts). At 7 PM we will have two hardware related talks:
First up, Tyler Hunt will be doing a talk on “Cooking with Chef”.
If you’re tired of running the same commands over and over when
setting up your servers, you’ll love Chef. It’s a systems integration
framework that allows you to use a Ruby DSL to manage your system
configurations, and then easily deploy them across your entire
infrastructure, à la Capistrano. Tyler will be breaking down the
various components of Chef, and showing some example configurations to
get you cooking.
Next Thomas Meeks will be doing a talk on “Building your own
personal cloud with eucalyptus”. Eucalyptus is an open source cloud
infrastructure that is API-compatible with Amazon’s EC2. In this talk
he’s going to give an introduction to Eucalyptus, its uses, how to
install it, and how to interface with it using the Amazon EC2 gem
available on github.
Both talks aren't necessarily Ruby specific, so please feel free to
invite your friends. Then also tell them about Day of Ruby, a free
day long event on Saturday May 30th where they can learn all about
Ruby and Rails. http://orlando.dayofruby.com/
-Gregg