DC Ruby Users Group

Events coming up

• Jun 14

  June DCRUG: Unicode in Ruby + Customizing Views without Changing your ERB Files

  Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Get Your Unicode On" by Charles Calvert - The world is bigger than English, and Charles will be explaining what Unicode is, why it's important, and how to work with unicode data. Among the topics covered will be the very different ways Unicode is implemented in ruby 1.8 and ruby 1.9, and the difference between UTF-8, UTF-16, et al.

• Jul 12

  July DCRUG: Extracting Gems from Your Rails Apps + TBD

  Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Extracting gems from Rails applications using DCI" by Patrick Robertson - The /lib directory of Rails apps can turn into a dumping ground of ad-hoc code for interfacing with third party APIs.

Past events

• May DCRUG: Ruby VMs with Vagrant + Reusing Functionality btw Apps

  10-11 May 2012 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Using Vagrant for Rails Development" by Dan Pilone - Rails environments can become a tangle of versions and dependencies, but it's important to have them be consistent across developers' machines.

• April DCRUG: Parsing Campaign Finance Data + Developing w/ Prod Data Snapshots

  12-13 Apr 2012 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Parsing Federal Campaign Finance Information" by Derek Willis - Follow the money! Learn about Fech and Campaign Cash, two open-source gems that The New York Times uses (and you can too!) to parse FEC filings and provide a ruby wrapper for The NYT's campaign finance API.

• March DCRUG: Agile Reqs Best Practices + User Experience Driven Development

  Fri, 9 Mar 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Good Stories: Agile Requirements Best Practices" by Blunders - "Journey to the land of good stories, where you'll get an entertaining (and enlightening)

• February DCRUG: Penetration Testing and Compojure/Rails Comparison

  Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Preparing Your Web App for Penetration Testing" Aaron Higbee - A security expert will walk us through why you would want your application "pentested", what that process entails, and how your application's security can be improved based on the results of that assessment.

• January DCRUG: Rapid Rails Product Development, Full-Text Search w ElasticSearch

  Fri, 13 Jan 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Rails Tools: Lessons Learned" Mike Subelsky - A first-hand account of the tools and techniques Mike's team used to build a new product, including: modular Heroku applications, PostgreSQL, Redis, Rails, Resque, Goliath, Airbrake, Twilio, New Relic, Zerigo, Sendgrid; all of that developed using BDD with Capybara and RSpec.

• December DCRUG: More Lightning Talks!

  Fri, 9 Dec 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  This month, we're doing a bunch of shorter "lightning talks" instead of two full-length presentations.Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Using Ruby with R" by Sean Marcia *"Multi-Lingual Applications in Rails" by Oğuz Demirkapı *"Tests On the Cloud With Fog and Hydra" by Dan Hensgen *"Use Ruby to Learn Lisp" by Troy Stribling *"Batch Processing in Ruby" by Albert Law

• November DCRUG: Lightning Talks!

  Fri, 11 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  This month and next, we're doing a bunch of shorter "lightning talks" instead of two full-length presentations, so if you have a topic or project on which you'd like to do a 10 minute presentation on anything Ruby-related, Rails-related or possibly of interest to Ruby developers, please email me at josephgrossberg at gmail.com and we'll add you to the December 8 meetup (the November one has been filled).Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.

• October DCRUG: Rails Templating Options, Chef vs. Puppet

  13-14 Oct 2011 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"ERb vs. HAML vs. Mustache - Rails Templating Options" by Dave Copeland *"Chef vs. Puppet" by Anthony BurtonWe now meet monthly at Logik headquaters, located on the 3rd floor at 709 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. The closest Metro stop is Gallery Place / Chinatown (Red line)

• September DCRUG: "MongoDB + Rails" and "Securing Your Rails Application"

  8-9 Sep 2011 in Washington, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"MongoDB and Rails" by Kyle Banker *"Directed Acyclic Graphs using MongoDB" (10 minute lightning talk) by Scott Messinger *"Securing Your Rails Application" by David KeenerWe now meet monthly at Logik headquaters, located on the 3rd floor at 709 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. The closest Metro stop is Gallery Place / Chinatown (Red line)

• DCRUG: Monthly Meeting

  9-10 Jun 2011 in NAVAL ANACOST ANNEX, United States

  We now meet monthly at Logik headquaters, located on the 3rd floor at 709 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. The closest Metro stop is Gallery Place / Chinatown (Red line).Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.

• DCRUG: Monthly Meeting

  12-13 May 2011 in NAVAL ANACOST ANNEX, United States

  We now meet monthly at Logik headquaters, located on the 3rd floor at 709 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. The closest Metro stop is Gallery Place / Chinatown (Red line). Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.

• April DCRUG: "Fat Models Aren't Enough" and Using Ruby to Work w Java SOAP APIs

  14-15 Apr 2011 in NAVAL ANACOST ANNEX, United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current Agenda: *"Fat Models aren't Enough!" by Jeff Casimir - "Fat Models, Skinny Controllers" they scream. Pushing your logic down to the model layer is a key step to improve testability, maintainability, and code quality. But many developers now have "junk drawer" models that don't realize these goals. Having a fat model isn't enough!

• March DCRUG: Ruby Gotchas and Liquid Templates

  Fri, 11 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington D.C., United States

  Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Ruby Gotchas" by Paul Barry - Forewarned is forearmed! Learn about some common errors in Ruby code and how to avoid making same those mistakes in your own projects. *"Liquid Templates" by Dane Harrigan - Does having non-techies edit your ERb and HAML views make you wake up in a cold sweat? Come hear about Liquid: a safer, simpler templating language, and the Liquify gem.

• February DCRUG: Geospatial Ruby with RGeo and Alternatives to RSpec and Cucumber

  Fri, 11 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington D.C., United States

  We now meet monthly at Logik headquaters, located on the 3rd floor at 709 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. The closest Metro stop is Gallery Place / Chinatown (Red line).Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Geospatial Ruby with RGeo" by Pete Jackson *"Tiny Tools Tidy Tests" by Evan Light

• DCRUG: Monthly Meeting

  8-9 Jul 2010 in Washington, United States

  *** PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW MEETING LOCATION *** Closest Metro stops are Dupont Circle (Red Line) and U St. (Green/Yellow).Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from novices to expert Rubyists.We need presenters, so if you have a topic or project on which you'd like to do a 20-30 minute presentation, please email me at joe at intridea.com and I'll add you to the list. If have presented before, you are welcome to give a presentation on a new topic.

• June DCRUG: RailsConf Recap and more!

  10-11 Jun 2010 in Washington, United States

  *** PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW MEETING LOCATION ***Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from novices to expert Rubyists.We need presenters, so if you have a topic or project on which you'd like to do a 20-30 minute presentation, please email me at joe at intridea.com and I'll add you to the list. If have presented before, you are welcome to give a presentation on a new topic.

• May DCRUG: Static websites with Jekyll, Making Great Command-Line Apps in Ruby

  13-14 May 2010 in Washington, United States

  This month's DCRUG features Jekyll, a Ruby-based tool for building template-based static web content, and tips and tricks on how to build well-designed Ruby apps to run on the command line.And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza and soda for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.Here's the agenda for May: *Luigi Montanez - "Static websites with Jekyll" *David Copeland - "Making Great Command-Line Apps in Ruby

• April DCRUG: Functional Programming, Teach Anything to Anyone, What's in a Name?

  8-9 Apr 2010 in Washington, United States

  This month, all three of our topics are accessible and useful to people with all levels of Ruby experience, from Ruby beginners to folks who use it every day.And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza and soda for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.Here's the agenda for April: *Paul Barry: "An Introduction to Functional Programming, with Ruby" *Jeff Casimir: "How to Teach Anything to Anyone, Even Your Dev Team

• March DCRUG: Legal Considerations for Startups, Resque and more

  Fri, 12 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  We begin our meetings with a short introductory presentation -- no Ruby or Rails experience necessary -- before getting into the more advanced topics.And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.Here's the current agenda:* Aaron Titus is back, this time presenting "Legal Considerations for Startups"* Intridea's own Flip Sasser is visiting from Baltimore to present "Background Jobs with Resque

• Hackfest #2!

  Fri, 12 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  DC RUG will be having its second hackfest. The last one went pretty well, we hope to have more people attend this month.Rails 3 is again going to be the theme, same as last time but now the official beta is out so people should have an easier time getting their environment up and running.But like all hackfests please feel free to work on anything you want. All skill levels are encouraged to attend!

• Feb. DCRUG: Naming Conventions, Jekyll, Multi-Framework Apps, Startup Lessons

  Fri, 12 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  Despite "Snowmageddon", it looks like we may be able to hold this month's DCRUG after all! :)We begin our meetings with a short introductory presentation on Ruby or Rails -- no experience necessary -- before getting into the more advanced topics.And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.Weather permitting, here's the agenda for our February meeting

• January DCRUG: Beginning TDD w/ Ruby, Radiant CMS, Best Practices for Libraries

  Fri, 15 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  We will begin our meetings with a short introductory presentation on Ruby or Rails -- no experience necessary -- before getting into the more advanced topics. And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.

• December DCRUG: Ruby Enumerator Basics, MongoDB, Ruby Refactorings and Resque

  Fri, 11 Dec 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  We will begin our meetings with a short introductory presentation on Ruby or Rails -- no experience necessary -- before getting into the more hardcore topics. And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand. Here's the agenda: * Doug Peterson will be giving an introduction to working with arrays, hashes and other Ruby enumerators * Kyle Banker is coming down from NYC to talk about MongoDB and Rails.

• November DCRUG: Intro to Rails Models, IP Law for Programers and Code of Art

  Fri, 13 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

  Continuing the approach we started last month, we'll begin our meetings with a short introductory presentation on Ruby and Rails -- no experience necessary -- before getting into the more hardcore topics. And, as always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.

• October DCRUG: Intro to Ruby and Rails, Ruby and Hardware, free pizza, and more!

  8-9 Oct 2009 in Washington, United States

  Starting this month, we will be beginning our meetings with short introductory presentations on Ruby and Rails, before getting into the more hardcore Ruby topics. As always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand. Here's the agenda: [list]

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