Community user groups

The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade (raleigh.rb)

Events coming up

• Dec 2

  West End Ruby - Intro to Cucumber

  Carrboro, United States

  As the second in our intro-level series of talks, TJ Stankus will present an Introduction to Cucumber. At our last meetup we had a great presentation and discussion about BDD and RSpec. Of course, Cucumber came up, so we'll take a little closer look at that tool. Here's how describes Cucumber: Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text.

Past events

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade November Meeting

  Wed, 18 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Raleigh, United States

  Objective-C for Rubyists If you program in Ruby, chances are you use it all the time without ever being aware of it: Objective-C. It is the language that powers Mac OSX and iPhone OS. It is the only language for building native iPhone OS applications. And while it is a statically-typed language, Objective-C has many similarities to Ruby that can make learning it a lot easier.

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade October Meeting

  20-21 Oct 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  RiCal Lessons Learned Rick DeNatale, details TBA.

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade September Meeting

  15-16 Sep 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  Soft SkillsLet's go soft. As developers, we get our drive and passion from drinking the hard stuff - code. For most of us, if all we had to do to get where we wanted was to code, that's all we'd do. It's never that easy though. Sometimes you have to order the iced tea and skip the beer, because the business man you're with ordered the iced tea. Let's take a step back and look a the soft skills we all need to develop to get us where we want to be in life.

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade August Meeting

  18-19 Aug 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  __Generating Rich PDFs with Prawn__ by Matthew BassPrawn is a Ruby library that was developed with the goal of making PDF generation in Ruby easy and fast. It gives an order of magnitude speed increase over its predecessors like PDF::Writer. The markup is straightforward yet powerful and can be leveraged to generate very professional looking PDF documents. Join us for an introduction to the library.

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade July Meeting

  21-22 Jul 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  __Javascript Testing in Rails: Fast, Headless, In-browser. Pick Any Three.__ by Larry Karnowski & Jason Rudolph You wouldn?t consider developing a Rails application without having a solid test suite for your Ruby code, but you?ve somehow convinced yourself to cross your fingers and look the other way when it comes to JavaScript. It doesn?t have to be that way. In this talk, you?

• West End Ruby Meetup

  1-2 Jul 2009 in Carrboro, United States

  The monthly West End Ruby meetup will be Wednesday, July 1st, 6:30pm, at Carrboro Coworking. Join us for a fun, low-key hack night. Bring beer if you'd like. Help us bid a fond farewell to fellow hacker Matt Henry who's leaving us to join Yahoo.

• The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade June Meeting

  16-17 Jun 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  __Chef__ by Mark Imbriaco If you're still using Capistrano or shell scripts to manage your servers, this talk is for you. It's time to automate everything and sleep better at night. Centralized configuration management is key to any production environment. Standing on the shoulders of tools like Puppet, Chef is a new system configuration framework combining the power of Ruby with tested systems management concepts. Use a tasty Ruby DSL to define your system state.

• Radiant CMS Hack Night

  11-12 Jun 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  This is a completely open, free-form, "just show up with a laptop (or a friend with a laptop) and hack on something Radiant" meeting. There's not a lot of agenda, and there's sure to be a great mix of coding and shooting the breeze about all things geeky. Sean Cribbs and John Long will be in attendance, leading the development and design/UI pieces respectively.

• Hack Night

  4-5 Jun 2009 in Raleigh, United States

  This is a completely open, free-form, "just show up with a laptop (or a friend with a laptop) and hack on some Ruby" meeting. There's no agenda, and there's sure to be a great mix of coding and shooting the breeze about all things geeky, including our favorite language. Nathaniel will be showing up around 6 to grab something to eat and start hacking, and we'll do quick introductions around 6:30, but feel free to drop in whenever you can. See you there!

• West End Ruby

  3-4 Jun 2009 in Carrboro, United States

  West End Ruby meetups are now on the first Wednesday of each month, to avoid conflicts with other local meetups. It's typically a low-key, fun hack night with interesting conversation. And beer. Last month we discussed JVM-based languages, among other things. Hope to see you there!