Oct 18th, 2011 Meetup

WHEN: Tuesday, Oct 18 @ 18:30
WHERE: 2-49, Computer Science Centre, University of Alberta

Ruby News

Rails 3.1.1 released, stability, performance and bug fixes
Ruby Toolbox has received a new look and some usability improvements
Bundler 1.1 coming soon, promises to make your bundle installs much faster
rbenv is an emerging alternative to RVM. Watch for more coverage.
Facebook has launched Facebook Developers HTML5 portal with coverage of almost everything HTML5
StartupEdmonton is launching Skunkworks. It's goal is to turn large companies with specific needs into customers for local start-ups. Register or contact @camlinke for detais.
Amir Barylko who spoke about using Capybara a few months ago, is offering YEGrb members a discount on his Clojure training course. Mention YEGrb and get a discount.
RailscastsPro — 9$/mo for even more awesome screencasts, and revised episodes from Ryan Bates.
We had a hackup at Original Joe's on Thanksgiving Monday. Much beer was drunk, and even a little code was written. The next hackup is Monday Nov 7th.

Ruby Recap (Beginner)
- Managing application processes with the Foreman gem
Twilio SMS Overview / Implementing Twilio SMS into a Rails app / Twilio Dashboard & Statistics - Ryan Jones
- Get the source and a copy of Ryan's presentation from his GitHub repo.
RubyConf recap with @fnichol (Beginner)
- Picks
  - "Algorithms" is not a four letter word
  - Services Inception with Ruby
  - jRuby: Polyglot Heaven (integrating jRuby with Scala and Closure)
- Trends where fast tests, concurrency, and alternative implementations
- Need a Canadian contingent!

Backbonejs Q&A with Derick Bailey
- Do we do this instead of a normal meetup? Or make a seperate evening?
- voted to do this instead of the next meetup. Will contact Derick to see if he's available Nov 15th.
Thanks to Fletcher Nichol for bringing back a bag of Ruby shirts from his recent trip to RubyConf.
- We'll be giving these away to speakers to say thank-you. Speak soon to get first pick!
Future talk ideas?
- advanced bundler
- the meaning of self
- rbenv
- LocomotiveCMS — new, fresh, buggy, but promising tool for fast creation of simple websites
- how to add documentation to MRI
- doing CRUD AJAX with Rails and jQuery
- Sprockets
- HTTP Streaming (@RyanOnRails)
- MongoDB (@benzittlau)
- Ruby Implementations Overview: JRuby/Rubinius/MRI (@stormbrew)
- Channel9.rb (@stormbrew's crazy ruby VM http://www.github.com/stormbrew/channel9.rb)
  - Or related: Crazy things in ruby you may not know about (eg. flip-flops) that I learned while implementing.

The next meetup is Tuesday Nov 15th @ 19:00. The next hackup is Monday Nov 7th @ 18:30.

We'll head to Original Joe's Varsity on 109th for food at drinks. If you can't make the talks then meet us here around 20:30.