NWRUG Talks: Automate Your Home with Ruby and Kafta + Cookpad

We’ve got a talk double header this month, including sponsorship from the good folks at Cookpad.

Automate Your Home with Ruby
In this talk Karl Entwistle will be sharing his insights and learnings from implementing the HomeKit Accessory Protocol to create a HomeKit accessory in Ruby. HomeKit is a set of protocols and libraries to access devices for home automation. The talk explores some limitations of Rack, decoding binary data with Ruby and an overview of the HomeKit Accessory Protocol. Karl will also live demo a couple of different accessories.

Kafka + Cookpad
For the past 4 months Lewis Buckley has been busy working on integrating Cookpad with Kafka. Lewis will be sharing some of his insights, tip and tricks in a short presentation, to help you integrate Kafka with a Ruby on Rails application.