Come on out and hack!

Note the Change of Venue: ThoughtWorks, 200 E. Randolph in Chicago

We will do more hacking on MongoDB and its Ruby driver. But this time we'll do it with TDD! We'll provide all the tests and you'll write the Ruby code to make them pass. This will give you a feel for what a program with tests is like and will lead you into some of the interesting corners of MongoDB.

This meetup will be suitable both for Ruby beginners and any experienced Rubyists who want to learn more about MongoDB. Don't worry if you missed the last MongoDB hack night. This one will be different enough from last time that you could enjoy it whether you were there last time or not.

We will be pairing, of course. Please bring your laptop with Ruby and MongoDB and the RubyGem mongo installed. Gem install instructions are on the Feb 11 meetup page.

Note the change of venue: ThoughtWorks. Bring a snack if you like or we can chip in for pizza.

We will also learn how to post our results to a repository on the ChicagoRuby GitHub account so we can all check out each other's code. If you want to participate make sure you have git installed on your laptop. Instructions below.

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Git: Check if you already have it installed with command

git --version

If not, see instructions in http://progit.org/boo...

If you want to get started using git before the meeting, the best quick introduction is http://www.spheredev.... and more details are in http://progit.org/boo... or http://git-scm.com/do..., but we'll have instructions at the meeting on how to use git to post to our GitHub.