The Sacramento Ruby December Meetup

Organiser
The Sacramento Ruby Meetup
Date
Fri, 18 Dec 2009, 03:30 - 05:30 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
(Exact location not available) , Sacramento, US
Cost
Free

Tentative Agenda:

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  • Ruby Quiz! We'll be holding our irregular "Ruby Quiz Competition". Come test your Ruby chops (or learn Ruby!) by solving a fun problem in friendly competition with other members. We team up Ruby novices with seasoned developers so everyone can participate and learn from each other. After the competition, we walk through the teams' efforts to learn what tricks of the trade were employed.
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    As always, a number of folks will be around the hour before the formal meeting (6:30pm) to conduct the "Ruby Clinic". Bring your questions, problems, or other issues in and we'll try to help you out. Whether you are a new learner of Ruby, someone trying to set up a new machine, or an experienced developer with a tough problem at work, the Ruby Clinic is the place to turn to.

    Hope to see everyone at the meeting!

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    We are looking forward to this week's meetup. As always, we'll create small teams (combining new Rubyists with seasoned hands as much as possible), and then have a friendly competition to try and solve the challenge.

    To prepare for this "Quiz" here are your prerequisites and "hints" as to what to have ready before you arrive:

    1) Access to Ruby 1.8.6 (will use this to test the solutions, access to 1.9.1 ok, but will be judged separately)

    2) Sinatra 0.94 (http://www.sinatrarb.com/) installed. Be sure you can run the sample hello world app on that page!

    3) A little thinking about compressing strings

    4) Bring a memory stick if you have one

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