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The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group

Events coming up

• Dec 1

  Cooking with Chef: Your servers will thank you

  Vancouver, Canada

  Talk Description: When you hear "sysadmin work", do you think of ssh, vi, and shell scripts? If you do, it's probably not the most fun sounding work. Repetitive, tedious, and error-prone are words that come to mind. Thankfully, configuring servers is all but a solved problem thanks to Chef. The days of vi, and shell scripts are mostly over. Building complex infrastructure has never been easier.

Past events

• Erlang-style concurrency with AMQP in Ruby with Howard Yeh

  Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  Talk Description: Have you wondered what the big fuss about message-passing is about? This talk will be about message-passing concurrency, as a way to build flexible, reliable, and scalable applications. We'll go deeper than message-passing as just another way to program sequentially. We'll see how it requires a different way of thinking & design, that decouples the when-and-where of computation from the what-and-how.

• The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb October Meetup

  Wed, 7 Oct 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  WorkSpace closed down, and unfortunately I'm too busy to try to find free (as in $0 and as in available) space for a September meetup presentation. So, I think for September we should just have a pub night at Steamworks (375 Water St). So that everyone isn't starving, I've moved the time to 6 PM from 7 PM. If anyone has a space available for future meetups, please email me at peter@ruboss.com. Ideally, it would not require someone constantly buzzing people in, but that's not a requirement...

• The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb September Meetup

  Wed, 2 Sep 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  Talk: Programming ErlangA follow-up to last month's "Intro to Erlang", this talk will dive into the core components of the Erlang programming language, including processes, pattern matching, and message passing. Unlike the previoustalk, it will be light on hype and loaded with code samples.If you missed the previous talk, you might want to run through the slides quickly at http://www.slideshare.net/kenpratt/intro-to-erlang before coming to get a brief overview Erlang.

• Hacking parse.y with Tatsuhiro UJIHISA

  Thu, 6 Aug 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  Talk: Hacking parse.yOne of the darkest sides of Ruby is the parser. I tried to fix the notation or the syntax of ruby so as to understand the MRI implementation more deeply. This talk will introduce how input codes are parsed, and how to cook the parser. It would be better you fetch and build Ruby1.9.2dev in advance.Speaker Bio:Tatsuhiro UJIHISA is a Japanese programmer. He writes Ruby and Vim scripts, and also Haskell sometimes. He had worked as a part-time Rails programmer in Japan.

• The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb August Meetup

  Wed, 5 Aug 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  Talk: Programming ErlangA follow-up to last month's "Intro to Erlang", this talk will dive into the core components of the Erlang programming language, including processes, pattern matching, and message passing. Unlike the previoustalk, it will be light on hype and loaded with code samples.If you missed the previous talk, you might want to run through the slides quickly at before coming to get a brief overview Erlang.Speaker Bio:

• The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb July Meetup

  Wed, 8 Jul 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  Talk: Programming ErlangA follow-up to last month's "Intro to Erlang", this talk will dive into the core components of the Erlang programming language, including processes, pattern matching, and message passing. Unlike the previoustalk, it will be light on hype and loaded with code samples.If you missed the previous talk, you might want to run through the slides quickly at before coming to get a brief overview Erlang.Speaker Bio:

• The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb June Meetup

  Wed, 3 Jun 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in Vancouver, Canada

  This month we have two talks! Each should be about 30-45 minutes, and they both look great. First Talk: Rubish with Howard Yeh This talk gives a tour of Rubish, an experimental shell written in Ruby. Rubish is object oriented from the ground up, and has no metasyntax of its own. Rubish is designed to interface Unix commands with Ruby, with emphasis on Ruby. And Rubish is designed for ad hoc extensibility and metaprogrammatic access.