ChicagoRuby: BLUE1647 - Vagrant and Rails

Two topics for the evening...
First Topic: Vagrant
Laurence Drake will walk us through installation and getting started with Vagrant, a key DevOps tool. If you'd like to get a head start, please read the Vagrant documentation (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/) andOracle VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/).

Second Topic: Fun With CSVs and Excel
Marty Lavin will demonstrate importing and exporting csv/excel files. You'll get to see command line scripts and then a full blown Rails app.

About Marty Lavin
Marty Lavin is a developer and teacher. He holds degrees and years of experience doing both. Marty is a member of the ChicagoRuby organizer team.

About Laurence Drake
Laurence, one of the Chicago Ruby North Shore co-organizers, is friendly, energetic, talented, creative and motivated software engineer with over twenty years of software development experience, in multiple programming languages, on multiple platforms from Mainframes to Web applications.

About BLUE1647
ChicagoRuby is excited to expand to BLUE1647, a technology innovation center that includes software development and maker space. At ChicagoRuby: BLUE1647 we come together in an environment that fosters collaboration and creating. In keeping with that spirit we invite everyone to come meet new people, share ideas, learn new things, and build!

Let the group know what you’d like to take away from the meetings and what would be interesting to you. We are all students and teachers so feel free to share your knowledge and experiences with fellow Rubyists.

WindyCityRails
Level up your skills. WindyCityRails is Chicago's Ruby on Rails conference, happening in September.
Details: http://windycityrails.org (http://windycityrails.org/)