Houston Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup

Schedule:
7:00 - 7:10 - Ruby News
7:10 - 7:30 - Rails Essentials: foreman -- @jwo
7:45 - 8:30 - Debugging your Rails Application -- @jwo

Rails Essentials

@jwo will run a short series on the essential gems every Ruby/Rails developer needs in his/her arsenal. This month: foreman... a must if you use Heroku or if you have multiple services that make your app go.

Debugging your Rails Application

@jwo - Newbies are frequently frustrated when they discover there's no IDE to add a breakpoint in Rails. Let's go through ways to debug your Rails applications, including the <%= debug @your_object %>, using the ever-cool Pry to peek inside your app and see what's running (and change things), and the new kid on the block: better-errors.

Let's go 2013!!!zomg!!11