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Oct 27 7:00 PM

16 attended (est.) – 4.00 4.001

You ever get that hankering to hack on the fourth Tuesday of the month? Boy, I do. Who else wants to resurrect the nyc.rb hackfest?

Pivotal would like to host in their new office, and we've even got some budget so everyone can get their drink on and their snack on.

Make public Tracker projects for any projects upon which you plan/would like to hack. http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

Pivotal Labs
new york, NY, 10001

16 Yes
1 Maybe

Oct 21 6:30 PM

18 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.506

We will be running down some Ruby best practices.
Explore Ruby development of iPhone. android, and other mobile devices with Rhodes.
Unicorn, the latest competitor in the thin, passenger, rack server space.
Dynamic, and functional composition tips.
and more...

Pivotal Labs
new york, NY, 10001

18 Yes
0 Maybe
4 Waiting List

Oct 13 7:00 PM

4 attended (est.) – No rating yet

Gilt Group
new york, NY, 10011

4 Yes
1 Maybe

Sep 16 6:30 PM

17 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.503

Here is a list of potential topics please send other requests to me so we can gauge interest.


duck punching
macruby (fastest ruby ever?)
RVM (running multiple Ruby Virtual Machines seamlessly)
Ruby Desktop apps (shoes, macruby, ruby cocoa, wx, etc)
Testing ajax apps with *watir... Ajax Javascript & rails best practices
Google apps api's

Bachrach Group
New York, NY, 10018

16 Yes
0 Maybe

Sep 9 6:00 PM

40 attended (est.) – 4.00 4.008

RSVP here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFV5T1ZFSDBsUTlObjh0a2lxWWlFR3c6MA.

Rails 3 is coming fast, and Yehuda will review some of the biggest
changes. He will start by covering the top-line user-facing features,
like making REST more of a first class citizen, and improved router,
and a new API for background workers. Then, he'll go into the big news
of Rails 3, a significantly more modular and extensible core, and show
how you can leverage this in your extensions and applications.

This talk will have something for everybody. If you spend your time
building quick prototypes, you'll get to see features that will help
you get up and running quickly and get repetitive work out of the way
fast. If you build long-term apps, you'll see how you can work with
Rails to unlock built-in functionality for your own uses. And if you
maintain extensions to Rails, you'll learn how to work with Rails to
keep those plugins humming smoothly with new releases.

The New York Times
new york, NY, 10018

39 Yes
0 Maybe

Aug 26 6:30 PM

26 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.506

Topics this meet are still brewing. We generally keep it to a loose informal discussion but if you have specific things you'd like to talk about, let us know and we can post it and those who can contribute to the conversation with specific experience can be prepared.

Talking points thus far

Rack Middleware Filter HTTP request & response
Ruby fundamentalism : Method Overriding & method_missing
Rails CMS
git power tools

Gilt Group
new york, NY, 10011

26 Yes
0 Maybe

Aug 12 6:30 PM

16 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.005

Topics this meet are still brewing. We generally keep it to a loose informal discussion but if you have specific things you'd like to talk about, let us know and we can post it and those who can contribute to the conversation with specific experience can be prepared.

Talking points thus far


Rails Templates
Ruby Fundamentals - Splat
Testing BDD continued.

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16 Yes
0 Maybe
9 Waiting List

Jul 29 6:30 PM

21 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.005

Discuss ruby development, both within web frameworks (Rails, Merb, Sinatra) and outside as system or desktop development. The atmosphere is informal, we encourage participation from everyone, interruptions are par for the course. no powerpoint presentations. no pulpit to pew discussions.

We use a projector so everyone can type code and everyone can see. It generally runs an hour to two hours max and is followed by a social gathering at a nearby pub.

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20 Yes
3 Maybe

Jul 15 6:30 PM

34 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.005

Applied Ruby!

several practical examples of Rubys use in the field.

Topics this meet are still brewing. We generally keep it to a loose informal discussion but if you have specific things you'd like to talk about, let us know and we can post it and those who can contribute to the conversation with specific experience can be prepared.

This month the Gilt Group is generously hosting, someone will be posted in the main lobby to make sure everyone finds the event ok! Gilt is a great up and coming new york ruby house, they are a luxury brands, members only auction site. There business model is this: extraordinary goods at incredible prices for a limited time! You may have seen them present at Rails Conf 09 http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8505

Thanks also to Carolyn Estelle who is helping put this event together and is helping arm Gilt with good ruby developers.

See you there.

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35 Yes
0 Maybe

Jun 24 7:00 PM

15 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.504

Follow the sign on the door


Its an open discussion for ruby developers to get together, share code, experiences, troubles, etc...


explore the practices that result in great ruby. Hers the short list of topics let me know if you want any thing else prepped.

Blocks, Procs, & Lambda : making sense of some of the trickier bits of fundamental ruby.

rake : build tool of the rubyist

upgrading to 1.9

new gems.

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13 Yes
1 Maybe