West Michigan Ruby Users Group

• Meetup
  Scripting with Ruby
  • Mon Jun 04
    6:00 PM
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  • 10 attending
  • 2 comments

  The Factory

  38 West Fulton Suite 400, Grand Rapids, MI (map)

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  Ruby for Scripting (Torey) Rake, Thor (Elizabeth) Learn more

  Hosted by: John Hwang (Organizer)

• Meetup
  Ruby Style Guide
  • Mon Jul 02
    6:00 PM
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  • 9 attending
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  The Factory

  38 West Fulton Suite 400, Grand Rapids, MI (map)

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  Brandon Zylstra will be covering the Ruby Style Guide published by Github.   Learn more

  Hosted by: John Hwang (Organizer)

• Meetup
  Deployment
  • Mon Aug 06
    6:00 PM
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  • 7 attending
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  The Factory

  38 West Fulton Suite 400, Grand Rapids, MI (map)

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  Hosting Environment (Jonathan Pichot) Heroku (Brandon Zylstra) Popular Deployment Tools: Capistrano, Vlad, ...etc (Torey Heinz) Learn more

  Hosted by: John Hwang (Organizer)

• Meetup
  Test-Driven Development
  • Mon Sep 03
    6:00 PM
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  • 4 attending
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  The Factory

  38 West Fulton Suite 400, Grand Rapids, MI (map)

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  Intro to TDD (John Hwang)   Testing Tools: (We need volunteers to cover one of the following tools) RSpec, MiniSpec Shoulda Test::Unit Cucumber Capybara   Learn more

  Hosted by: John Hwang (Organizer)

Recent Meetups

• May 7 at 6:00 PM, 16 Ruby programmers attended

  How to Publish a Gem
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  They rated it 3.001 (1 ratings)

  How to package and publish gems (Mike Shaheen) Intro to Bundler (John Hwang) How to run multiple Ruby runtimes: RVM, rbenv (Ross Hunter)

• April 25 at 7:00 PM, 12 Ruby programmers attended

  Hackfest
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  They rated it 4.502 (2 ratings) and uploaded 5 photos

  

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  First Hackfest was a success in my opinion. I took a star because I didn't get to play a game of foosball with anyone. ...

  —Mike Shaheen

  

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  It was the first time I had really paired with another programmer on a problem. It was super fun and extremely helpful. ...

  —Jonathan Pichot

• April 2 at 6:00 PM, 19 Ruby programmers attended

  Ruby on the Web with Sinatra
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  They rated it 5.006 (6 ratings) and uploaded 1 photos

  

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  Great meetup

  —Steven Scherbinski

  

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  Nice intro to Sinatra while demonstrating some of the flexibility a person has with Ruby.

  —Mike Shaheen

• February 6 at 6:00 PM, 20 Ruby programmers attended

  Intro to Rails
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  They rated it 5.005 (5 ratings) and uploaded 12 photos

  

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  It was really cool to show how easy it is to get started with rails (after you get it installed of course). ...

  —Ross Hunter

  

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  Great to have you guys at The Factory! Hope to have you again soon!

  —Andrew Montpetit

• January 2 at 6:00 PM, 25 Ruby programmers attended

  10 things Every Ruby Newbie Should Know
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  They rated it 4.505 (5 ratings) and uploaded 23 photos

  

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  More important than the topic itself (although I did pick up a couple new ideas) was the networking with other local people with varying ...

  —Matt Michielsen

  

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  Great group. Can't wait to go back next month.

  —Steven Scherbinski