The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group

The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group is for anyone interested in learing or sharing experiences with "Ruby" or "Ruby on Rails".

We meet every third Tuesday of every month.

(Brought to you by the UC Berkeley RadLAB. http://radlab.berkeley.edu/)

Note to recruiters: The mailing list is for technical and informational postings only. There is a message board reserved for job postings, please use it. (Will Sobel)

If you have trouble getting into Soda hall, give me a call at: 510-684-6400. (Just don't give out my phone number! ;-) - Will)

Events coming up

We don't have any upcoming events for this user group. Do you know this group? If so, why not submit a future event? We also support iCal, EventBrite and Meetup feeds.

Past events

  • Dancing with Rails - An adventure in single stepping starring Pry

    Wed, 20 Jun 2012, 01:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Dave Doolin6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractRails is an excellent framework for (very) rapidly creating interactive web applications. Sometimes, the price of this power comes at the expense of understanding. Bugs breed, but where are they living?

  • RGeo - Let's get our geography straight

    Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Eric Theise6:30 - 7:00:Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation Abstract: It's no secret that browser-based and mobile technologies are combining with server-side APIs to create new and novel mapping experiences.

  • East Bay Rails: BDD Outside In Rails with Cucumber

    Fri, 2 Mar 2012, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Signup at East Bay RailsTest first.An admirable goal.Sometimes, admirable seems impractical. Testing takes time, and writing tests before code requires understanding both the code and the tests.But the evidence is clear: with experience, "test first" results in better designed software, with architecture that is maintainable and scalable. Almost by definition.  However, there are many kinds of tests.

  • Using YouTube APIs for Education

    Wed, 22 Feb 2012, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Shannon jj Behrens: Google / YouTube6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation Abstract: Did you know that YouTube offers APIs? Did you know that video is one of the most powerful communication mechanisms for instilling knowledge? Now you can combine the two!

  • A very merry UnMeetup to you!

    Wed, 21 Dec 2011, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    This is a "Stay Where You Are" Meetup.No need to travel all the way to Berkeley or interrupt your holiday plans: just find a good (Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, ...) book, hack on your favorite project, or just plain kick back and relax.Happy holidays - we'll see you in January 2012

  • Hack Night / Get Started on Rails

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Matthew Kocher / Pivotal Labs6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Getting Started help & Featured presentations8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractBring your laptops (or desktops if you want to lug them here!) and we'll help you get Ruby, Rails, git, RVM, ... installed so that you can be productive.

  • Designing for Mice & Men: UX Patterns for Devices, Browsers and TVs

    Wed, 18 May 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Bill Scott / Netflix6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractApplications now have to live across a spectrum of devices. At the extreme we can either build one interface that spans them all or build very custom interfaces for each device. This presents challenges in how we design our interfaces.

  • Finding anything: Real-time search with IndexTank

    Wed, 20 Apr 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Tim Spence / MedHelp6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractIndexTank is a highly scalable hosted search platform with a rich feature set and a powerful API.  With a free developer account, you can fire up one of many clients and index your data while accessing results in real time.

  • What is jRuby and why would I use it?

    Wed, 20 Apr 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Adam Kalsey / Voxeo6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractjRuby allows a developer to run Ruby applications in a Java Virtual Machine. Adam Kalsey from Tropo will explain why you'd want to do that, what jRuby can do for you, and show how Tropo used jRuby in building a real-time communications cloud service.

  • Tropo - An open-source cloud communications platform for Ruby

    Wed, 16 Mar 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Jason Goecke / Voxeo6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractTropo provides a cloud based API for writing single applications that are for powering multi-channel real-time communications. Write one app that handles voice, instant messaging and Twitter all at once and entirely in Ruby.

  • Sinatra. A Whirlwind Tour!

    Wed, 16 Feb 2011, 03:00 - 05:00 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Karmen Blake6:30 - 7:00: Open mic7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizesPresentation AbstractPut on your seatbelt and get ready for a ride with Sinatra! Sinatra is a sweet Ruby DSL to create web applications. You will be introduced to Sinatra and what it is capable of. More importantly, you will be enlightened to know that you can a get a web application running quicker than you think.

  • Pivotal Labs / Edward Hieatt - TBA

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00pm - Open Mic7:00 - 8:15pm - Featured Presentation8:15 - ??? - Offering/Looking for jobs; networkingFeatured PresentationPivotal Labs / Edward Hieatt (JsUnit, PivotalTracker...) will be presenting. While don't yet know the topic, you can bet it'll be a good one!BioEdward Hieatt is VP Engineering at Pivotal Labs... more as we get the details.

  • Wolf Arnold is back - Topic TBA but you know it'll be great!

    Wed, 21 Jul 2010, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Headliner: Wolf Arnold - TBA6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedPresentation Abstract:TBABio:Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D. is co-founder of RubyFocus, a Ruby-on-Rails consulting and recruiting firm and has been working on consumer web applications in Ruby-on-Rails since 2006. He learned the ropes while working on www.divinecaroline.com at Pivotal Labs and RGM.

  • Heroku Workshop

    Sat, 10 Jul 2010, 17:30 - 19:30 in Berkeley, United States

    Learn how to use Heroku and get started with your Rails application. Join us for a special 2-hour workshop on how to use Heroku presented by the Heroku team.More details as we get them.Location: Berkeley Public Library; space is limited.

  • Rit. – The anti-CMS content scheduling system in Rails

    Wed, 16 Jun 2010, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00pm - Open Mic7:00 - 8:15pm - Featured Presentation8:15 - ??? - Offering/Looking for jobs; networkingFeatured PresentationStop subjecting your Rails app to the iron fist of a CMS (Content Management System). Schedule better and serve content faster with rit. Viva Revolucion!BioBrian Doll is a Software/Systems Architect in the Bay Area. Check out his Emphatic Solutions Blog for more information about Rit. and his background.

  • Programming Google SketchUp

    Wed, 19 May 2010, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    SketchUp is a great 3D drawing program written in Ruby. And that means that you can get in there and some interesting things with it (and fight some interesting problems, too :).Rich Morin (www.cfcl.com) will present what he's learned from a serious SketchUp project he's been working on.More details as we have them.

  • Sarah Allen - Live

    Wed, 21 Apr 2010, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mic7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedOpen MicThis is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.Presentation AbstractWatch this space! We don't know yet, but if you know Sarah you know it's going to be good.Bio

  • Web application customer experience management

    Thu, 18 Mar 2010, 01:45 - 03:45 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedOpen MicThis is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.Presentation Abstract:"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (Monitoring) My Site's Users

  • Amazon Web Services

    Wed, 17 Feb 2010, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedOpen MicThis is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.Presentation Abstract: Learn about Amazon Web Services: a collection of remote computing services offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.

  • Using Ruby on Rails in a multi-platform environment (java/.net/ruby)

    Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract Rails' database migration capabilities and rapid admin UI development make it a great way to tie multi-platform development projects together.

  • Custom routing in Rails

    Wed, 18 Nov 2009, 02:30 - 04:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract. Drive dynamic routing through custom tables that you build... More details as they develop! Bio See the East Bay Ruby Meetup site for more details

  • TENTATIVE: OpenLaszlo Rails plugin?

    Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract... More later Bio See the East Bay Ruby Meetup site for more details

  • Getting Started with BDD...details coming soon!

    Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract... More later ...BDD, Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat, and factory_girl Bio See the East Bay Ruby Meetup site for more details

  • Building Native Mobile Apps in Ruby

    Wed, 16 Sep 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedOpen Mike This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.Presentation Abstract Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications for all major smartphone devices.

  • Scaling out Rails and MySQL

    Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in Berkeley, United States

    6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/WantedOpen MikeThis is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers.Presentation AbstractThe internet is becoming an increasingly bigger place, and more and more web apps are having to deal with the problem of scale.

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