Sep 13 Ruby meeting Topics question - need your input

[Jeff Barczewski]

STL Rubyists,

Next Monday is our regularly scheduled meeting.

What would you like to discuss at the meeting?

We can do a couple short presentations and/or do some collaborative
coding.

Anyone want to do a 20 minute presentation on something they have
learned?

I could discuss wxWidgets, rvm, OCRA, rr, RAWR or DataMapper (which I
just started using this past weekend).

We could dive more into BDD using rspec and cucumber.

So let me know if you would like to hear about any of those topics or
have your own topic to share, or want to work on a project.


We're all about picking topics/activities based on users interest, so
let me know what appeals to you.

Thanks,

Jeff

[James Carr]

Something I keep running across again and again is EventMachine. I do
not do any rubying these days so I have yet to delve into it, but I
keep seeing it on and off.

I'd LOVE to see a presentation on it by someone using it. :)

Thanks,
James

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[Craig Buchek]

I'd like to hear about RVM. Specifically, how I can get a Passenger
app to use a specific version of Ruby? (Seems like the kind of thing
that'd work better for me to see than to read.) WXwidgets would be
good -- we don't get into GUI apps much.

I could contribute a bit to talks on RR, RSpec, Cucumber, and
DataMapper.

I think we talked about EventMachine a month or 2 ago, in passing. The
short story seems to be that it's helpful for workloads with lots of
small requests, but not much help in other contexts. I believe Yehuda
Katz had a good writeup on his blog last month. And there were some
good presentations at Rails conferences before that.

Craig

[Nate]

I have three things:

Find a Ruby testing framework that prints out nice report results

I can't get Gollum (a Sinatra app) to work on my shared hosting site.
I can get it to work on
my local box/laptop. Maybe I can SSH to my server and see if anyone
can help
me figure out the problem or possible problems.

Ask about latest/greatest Ruby/Rails books

[Craig Buchek]

Here's another good article on EventMachine and event-oriented
programming.

Craig

PS. I can't wait for Reia to be useful.

[Jeff Barczewski]

Craig, Did you mean to include a link?

[Jeff Barczewski]

I'm thinking part of the meeting will be helping Nate and maybe we
could do a couple short presentations.

Any more input on which topics we should do this month?

[Jeff Barczewski]

Another piece of ruby code I could talk about is something I wrote to
make it easy to plugin methods which I call modulize. It cleans up
some of the alias chain mess and makes it easy to extend behavior. I
hadn't released it yet because I want to write some decent docs to
explain it, but maybe I could go over it with you and the discussion
will help me solidify what needs to be in there as well as looking at
how to make the specs clearer.

Other possible topics are:
- Yard - the rdoc compatible documentation with extra power
- state-fu (state machine with nice DSL) http://github.com/davidlee/state-fu

So let me know what you all think.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Craig Buchek]

Uh, OK -- the link would be helpful.

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2010/08/multithreaded-rails-is-generally-better.html

[Jeff Barczewski]

That was a great article, I had bookmarked it myself. Yes, Reia sounds
great!

On Sep 9, 4:08 am, Craig Buchek <craig.buc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh, OK -- the link would be helpful.
>

> http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2010/08/multithreaded-rails-is-genera...