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Past events

• Hadoop, ActiveAdmin, and More!

  Wed, 9 Jan 2013, 00:00 - 03:00 in Baltimore, United States

  If you are interested in presenting this month, let any of the organizers know! So far we will be talking about: *ActiveAdmin 5 minutes ? Nestor Walker *Introduction to Hadoop 30 minutes ? Ted O'Meara

• Ruby AI & Hypermedia APIs

  Wed, 12 Dec 2012, 00:00 - 03:00 in Baltimore, United States

  Just in time for the holiday season: *An Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence written in Ruby 20 minutes ? Bryant Cruse *Hypermedia APIs 20 minutes ? Eric Oestrich

• Your New Favorite Gems

  Wed, 14 Nov 2012, 00:00 - 03:00 in Baltimore, United States

  About the Talk: Some of my new favorite gems: Strongbox, Sidekiq, Puma, etc. 20 minutesAbout the Speaker: Mike Subelsky is a Baltimore-based entrepreneur, programmer, and devops guy. His tools of choice are Ruby and JavaScript but he considers himself a jack-of-all-trades. In 2007, he co-founded a web startup called OtherInbox.com, which was just acquired by ReturnPath. Currently, he is pursuing new as-yet-unannounced ventures (he promises "something new and very cool

• Night of the LivingSocial

  9-10 Oct 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  Main Talk...The Rails View: The Junk Drawer Grows UpYou like Ruby. You know how to write it and refactor it. Controllers and Models are Ruby: fantastic, superb! Views, on the other hand, while Ruby ? are also mixed with HTML, JavaScript (or CoffeeScript), and CSS (or SCSS). In this mixed environment it?s easy to drop your high code standards and turn the top of the Rails stack into a nasty, brittle mess just to get things done.

• B'more on Rails Monthly Meetup

  14-15 Aug 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  On the agenda for this month: *cURLin' for Docs - You may have docs for your API, but do you have an API for your docs? (Eric Oestrich)We're still accepting talks of any length. Contact the organizers if you're interested in presenting!

• DevOps: Better Dev from Better Ops

  10-11 Jul 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  Taming the Kraken - How Operations Enables Developer Productivity (Nathen Harvey)There's always a bit of tension when getting features from idea to production. In this talk, we'll look at some of the changes CustomInk has made to reduce this friction and keep the new features coming. Gone are the days of bi-monthly deploys, office pools dedicated to guessing when this deploy will be rolled back, and the ceremony surrounding the deploy-rollback-fix-deploy cycle.

• Lightning Talks and (Hopefully) No Real Lightning

  12-13 Jun 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  Got a topic you can present in 10 minutes or less? Let us know and we'll add you to the agenda! *Mixing Clojure and Ruby -- Jason Gilman *Building Gems that Don't Suck -- Avdi Grimm *Managing Library Dependencies with Ease in Dart -- Chris Strom

• Mike Subelsky: Coding for Uncertainty

  8-9 May 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  Talks start at 7pm so get here early! Doors open at 6:30, pizza arrives at 6:45.About Mike's Talk: I will demonstrate a style for building Ruby web applications under conditions of extreme uncertainty with minimal resources (e.g. a typical web startup) when you want to maintain a high, sustainable rate of performance over a long period of time. This talk will feature few, if any, slides.

• Lessons Learned

  10-11 Apr 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  A sampling of lessons learned, including: *Learning Experiences in Web Development (Ruby, Heroku, and a conglomeration of tools) -- Oren Mittman & Nidhi Bhargava (20 min) *??? -- Jonathan Julian *Blogging Every Day for 350 Days Straight -- Chris Strom

• YouTube Data API, Librarian-Chef, Dart and <Your Talk Here>

  13-14 Mar 2012 in Baltimore, United States

  We are still working on the agenda for this month. If you would like to present (even if very short), let us know! *Ruby and the YouTube Data API -- Ali Ibrahim *Librarian-Chef (managing chef cookbooks) -- Jay FeldBlum *Dart: OOP Done Right in the Browser  -- Chris Strom

• Real MVC

  Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Baltimore, United States

  Some strong Ruby talks on the agenda for Valentine's Day.  Do you love your sweetie or Ruby more? *MVC for the web: Rails isn't MVC, so what would a *real* MVC framework look like? — Nick Gauthier *DCI, Ruby and Rails — Jim Gay

• OminAuth

  Wed, 11 Jan 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Baltimore, United States

  For our first meetup of 2012, we have a special, out-of-town guest: *Custom Authentication with OmniAuth — Steven Haddox *Rspec API Documentation (Lightning Talk) — Eric Oestrich *Intro to Functional Programming in Dart (Lightning Talk) — Chris StromWe still have room for a couple of shorter talks as well.  If you're interested in presenting let us know!

• Jasmine

  Wed, 14 Dec 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Baltimore, United States

  On tap for the last meetup of the year is: *Jasmine-headless-webkit — John Bintz will help us get up and running with Jasmine specs in a headless WebKit browser.  Surely, this is the fastest way to test your Javascript code.We still have room for others.  Let us know if you're interested in presenting on something!

• Ruby Concurrency and Not MongoDb

  Wed, 9 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Baltimore, United States

  So far this month, we have the following presentations: *Sometimes Mongo Isn't the Solution — Eric Oestrich and Chris Cahoon *Ruby Concurrency Realities — Mike SubelskyHave something you'd like to present?  Let us know!

• Redis, Hooks and Knockout.js

  11-12 Oct 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  On the agenda: *Ruby Hooks Used in Rails —  Andy Atkinson *A Knockout.js Lightning Talk — Scott Messinger *Rails View Testing & Shared Methods — Mark D. Blackwell *"A Practical Use-Case for Redis: Leaderboards" —  David CzarneckiRuby Hooks Used in Rails The talk aims to introduce Ruby language hooks by demonstrating simplified, runnable code examples.

• Ruby Open Source Hack Night

  27-28 Sep 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours.Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza.

• The Problem is Your Ruby

  13-14 Sep 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Another awesome agenda on tap: *The Problem is Your Ruby — Jeff Casimir *Patterns in Backbone.js — Nick GauthierWe still have room for others.  Got 5, 10, 20 minutes that you can spout off on something? Let us know!

• Pub Night at Max's!

  6-7 Sep 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.

• Ruby Open Source Hack Night

  24-25 May 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours.Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza.

• Pub Night at Max's!

  3-4 May 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.

• Ruby Open Source Hack Night

  26-27 Apr 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours.Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza.

• DevOps Gone Wild!

  12-13 Apr 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Capistrano best practices — Warren VosperBuilding Mongodb Servers with Vagrant and Chef — Nathen HarveyAnd, just to mix things up, some non-DevOps stuff...Letting Your Brain Work for You — Chris CahoonObject Oriented CSS (oocss.org) Will Change Your Life — Scott MessingerStupid Bash Tricks (and the ruby I wish I'd written) — Nick Evans

• Pub Night at Max's!

  5-6 Apr 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.

• Ruby Open Source Hack Night

  22-23 Mar 2011 in Baltimore, United States

  Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours.Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza.

• Jeff Casimir: Fat Models Aren't Enough

  Wed, 9 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Baltimore, United States

  "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!In this session we'll explore techniques for improving your models including: *Using the presenter pattern *Encapsulating logic into processor objects *Better Rails through Better Ruby

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