Community user groups

ChicagoRuby.org - Chicago Ruby on Rails

Events coming up

• Dec 2

  ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Growing Mad Mimi: Sharing Disruptive Techniques

  Chicago, United States

  Gary Levitt (of Mad Mimi) contacted Dave Hoover (of Obtiva) in early 2007 about building an email marketing web site in Ruby on Rails. In subsequent months and years, Gary and Dave collaborated almost daily in order to improve, scale, fix, and market Mad Mimi into one of the leading email marketing sites on the web. Dave will share his biggest lessons from this project. Most of the lessons are not technical, though Ruby and Rails certainly facilitated them.

• Dec 19

  ChicagoRuby: Elmhurst - Sharing & Pairing

  Chicago, United States

  Bring your laptop for an informal learning session! Our December meeting will give everyone an informal opportunity to share tools and pair on projects of their choice. If you're new to rails, find out what gems and tools you need to install to be most productive. If you're a Rails veteran, trade tips & tricks with other veterans. If you're an entrepreneur, meet some Rails developers that you can brainstorm with. And by the way... bring your laptop!

• Jan 6

  ChicagoRuby: Downtown - GeneXus Demo

  Chicago, United States

  Developer/instructor Daniel Coellar will demonstrate GeneXus, an IDE for Ruby and other languages, by building a small invoicing application from scratch in Ruby. He will also show how the product uses patterns to audit any table at the field level without changing or having access to the original source. The demo will be followed by a discussion with Rick Zachmann, a developer who has used the product to solve real-world business problems.

Past events

• ChicagoRuby: Elmhurst - Make Your Own Plugin 101

  Sat, 21 Nov 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in Chicago, United States

  Have you ever wanted to create your own Ruby on Rails plugin? Gabe Saravia has gone through the process and he will share his experiences with our group.

• ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Random Pair Programming

  Wed, 4 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Chicago, United States

  This meeting will focus on hands-on pair programming. Ginny Hendry led a great random pairing session in Elmhurst, so she's bringing her act downtown! People of every Ruby level are welcome to come and participate. Please come prepared with the following: a laptop with Ruby () and RSpec () installed, a basic working knowledge of the Ruby language, a general knowledge of Conway's Game of Life (see Wikipedia). Even if you've never programmed in Ruby, you're welcome to come and observe.

• ChicagoRuby: Elmhurst - Multiple Pairing Stations

  Sat, 17 Oct 2009, 20:00 - 22:00 in Chicago, United States

  "We accept pair piloting and pair policing. Why is pair programming controversial?" - Tweeted by @patmaddox at #alohaonrails Ginny Hendry (/) will take us through a pair programming exercise that is similar to a coding dojo except multiple people will pair at multiple workstations simultaneously. Come on out and try it even if you've never paired before. This is a great opportunity to learn!

• ChicagoRuby: Downtown - RadiantCMS with Sean Cribbs and John W. Long

  6-7 Oct 2009 in Chicago, United States

  John W. Long created Radiant, a Rails-based CMS, here in Chicago. Sean Cribbs is the current lead developer for Radiant. Long and Cribbs will join us via videoconference for an in depth discussion of Radiant. Radiant is a no-fluff content management system built with Ruby on Rails. Radiant makes it easy to get a new site up and running, but also makes it easy for developers to customize the experience for their users.

• ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Functional Testing in Ruby With Hpricot, & JavaScript

  1-2 Sep 2009 in Chicago, United States

  There are many testing frameworks. Which one is best for a particular purpose or application? What criteria should influence your decision?Find answers in this presentation: Functional Testing in Ruby With Hpricot, JavaScript & Selenium. Tim Camper, Greg Warren, & Dima Kovalenko will discuss the tools they used as they completed an app for a large US-based airline. Hands-on exercises are part of the meeting, so be prepared to write code!

• ChicagoRuby: Elmhurst

  Sat, 15 Aug 2009, 20:00 - 22:00 in Chicago, United States

  If you enjoy ChicagoRuby, consider WindyCityRails, a full-day conference with strong presenters & all-day coding dojo. Visit for details.

• ChicagoRuby: Downtown

  4-5 Aug 2009 in Chicago, United States

  Come on down and join us for our first downtown meeting after the merge with Chirb.

• ChicagoRuby: Cache Money and Lightning Talks

  Sat, 18 Jul 2009, 20:00 - 22:00 in Chicago, United States

  Our July 18 meeting will be a bold step for ChicagoRuby. Our presenter, Wolfram Arnold, is a Rails developer and agile consultant located in San Francisco. We will set up a remote connection with Wolf so that he can present at our meeting. If you are “poor” with model-based caching, stop by our meeting to learn more about Cache Money, which “is a write-through and read-through caching library for ActiveRecord.”Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D.

• ChicagoRuby.org: Rails Test Prescriptions

  23-24 Jun 2009 in Elmhurst, United States

  Join us after work in downtown Chicago. Noel Rappin, author of Rails Test Prescriptions () will be our guest speaker. Meet others in the downtown Chicago Rails community for learning & networking.