Rails: What is All the Fuss About & The Ruby Object Model

17:45 - 18:00: Gathering

18:00: Ruby on Rails: What is All the Fuss About?

As part of the "How to attract rails newcomers" initiative that began two meetups ago. This 50 minute presentation will demonstrate how to use the RailsApps Project (http://railsapps.github.com/) to quickly create a new "Job Board" rails application from scratch while implementing/configuring some of the more popular and powerful Gems used by advanced rails users and why.

Be sure to invite all of your skeptic/curious programmer friends. ;)

The speaker: Sergey Vlasov (http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyvlasov)

19:00 - 19:15: Break

19:15: The Ruby Object Model

We often hear that "everything in Ruby is an object". In this back-to-basics talk we will cover the fundamentals of objects in Ruby and the theoretical background for metaprogramming in Ruby.

The speaker: Omer Rauchwerger (http://www.twitter.com/rauchy)