Melbourne Ruby - April 2012

[Pat Allan]

Hi everyone

Just a bit of advance notice: the next Melbourne Ruby meet is on Thursday April 26th, at Inspire9 in Richmond (right beside the Richmond train station). Aim to rock up around 6pm, and we'll kick the talking off around 6:30pm.

I'll be taking over the hosting duties from Ben for this meeting (but I'll be away for the next handful, so someone else needs to step up after April!)

Also, we need speakers - so, who's keen to step up to the plate? It doesn't have to be anything long or particularly technical - tell us about your new favourite gem and why it's so cool, or perhaps a gem you wrote, or some thoughts on a particular aspect of web development and coding, or an introduction to a less common corner of Ruby, or maybe a solid introduction to something that those not so experienced in Ruby would find particularly revelatory, or… well, you get the picture. I'd say you should aim for something between 5 and 20 minutes, but that's not a hard and fast rule. I won't have a big hook at hand to pull you off stage.

Those details once again, in bullet points:
* Thursday 26th April
* Inspire9, Level 1, 41-43 Stewart Street, Richmond
* Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30 start.

Any questions, let me know! :)

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[Michael Pearson]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote:

Hi everyone

Just a bit of advance notice: the next Melbourne Ruby meet is on Thursday April 26th, at Inspire9 in Richmond (right beside the Richmond train station). Aim to rock up around 6pm, and we'll kick the talking off around 6:30pm.

I'll be taking over the hosting duties from Ben for this meeting (but I'll be away for the next handful, so someone else needs to step up after April!)

Also, we need speakers - so, who's keen to step up to the plate? It doesn't have to be anything long or particularly technical - tell us about your new favourite gem and why it's so cool, or perhaps a gem you wrote, or some thoughts on a particular aspect of web development and coding, or an introduction to a less common corner of Ruby, or maybe a solid introduction to something that those not so experienced in Ruby would find particularly revelatory, or… well, you get the picture. I'd say you should aim for something between 5 and 20 minutes, but that's not a hard and fast rule. I won't have a big hook at hand to pull you off stage.

I'd like to pitch an idea for "solving" packaging woes for Ruby & Python & node.js on Debian and Redhat variants and then open it up to criticism and discussion. I will also be looking for volunteers to help with the Redhat, Python and Node.js side of things.

Here's the original gist for those wanting to warm their flamethrowers: https://gist.github.com/2279957

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Michael Pearson

[Pat Allan]

Sounds like a great topic Michael - consider yourself on the list :)

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Pat

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[Michael Pearson]

Hi,

Unfortunately, I'll need to postpone this until next month: I haven't been able to get a prototype together as quickly as I'd planned, and my wife is doing a dive course that night making staying after work late in the city (I live in Hurstbridge) not very convenient.

Apologies, have a great evening!

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Michael Pearson

[Pat Allan]

Ah that's a shame, but thanks for letting us know Michael.

Does anyone else want to step up to the plate? We're also hearing from Glenn Gillen on how to create a Heroku Add-on, but another speaker or two would be ideal.

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Pat

[Gareth Townsend]

I could probably put together a rant... I mean talk.

Anything people want to hear opinions on?

I could do gherkin vs rspec for integration testing? Testing in isolation? Something else?

Gareth Townsend
http://www.garethtownsend.info

[Gareth Townsend]

Justin Morris will do a lighting talk on style guides.

Gareth Townsend
http://www.garethtownsend.info

On 23/04/2012, at 21:59, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote:

[Pat Allan]

Wonderful - and Gareth, if you want to do a talk, you're certainly welcome to. I'd personally be keen to see some examples for testing in isolation, but not too fussed :)

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Pat

[Justin Morris]

Yep, count me if for a lightning talk/demo on how TC is using a styleguide to help manage stylesheet complexity and make frontend dev suck a little less.

[Gareth Townsend]

I made slides yesterday, so I'll be doing a talk on Testing Strategy, there will be some isolation testing in there as well.

Cheers,
Gareth Townsend
http://www.garethtownsend.info

[Pat Allan]

Great - and for everyone else reading along, the meeting is tonight, from 6pm at Inspire9 (41 Stewart Street, Richmond).

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Pat