The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade (raleigh.rb)

Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You're in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. (We also have a mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members)

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Past events

  • Hack Night

    24-25 Jan 2013 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!

  • The Rails View: The Junk Drawer Grows Up

    8-9 Jan 2013 in Raleigh, United States

    John Athayde, one of the authors of "The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience," will be speaking at our January meetup.Are your Ruby on Rails views suffering from cluttered code? Have they become a tangled web of HTML, logic, and who-knows-what-else?We've reached a quite a bit of consensus on what makes clean code in our Ruby projects. However, there's not as much agreement on how to structure your Rails views.

  • Metaprogramming

    9-10 Oct 2012 in Raleigh, United States

    Presenters: Michael Stalker and Joseph Jaber from SciMed SolutionsTime: Come socialize at 6:45. The official meeting starts at 7:00. Hang out at Sammy's after the meeting.Where: WebAssign (new location)Wikipedia says, "Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves)

  • East Side Hack Night

    29-30 Sep 2011 in Raleigh, United States

    Get together to work on your ruby project and/or talk to other ruby enthusiasts.  Bring a laptop and get something done, or just hang out and chat.  Newbies are welcome.  I (Eric Crane) will be there from 6-8 PM, but you are welcome to come whenever and stay as long as you'd like.

  • Hack Night

    5-6 May 2011 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!

  • East Side Hack Night

    28-29 Apr 2011 in Raleigh, United States

    Get together to work on your ruby project and/or talk to other ruby enthusiasts.  Bring a laptop and get something done, or just hang out and chat.  Newbies are welcome.  I (Eric Crane) will be there from 6-8 PM, but you are welcome to come whenever and stay as long as you'd like.

  • TorqueBox - Raleigh.rb April Meeting

    19-20 Apr 2011 in Morrisville, United States

    Introducing TorqueBox (): a true 'Application Server' for Rack based applications. It provides asynchronous processing, messaging, scheduled jobs, daemons, and caching that share the same lifecycle as your application. It uses JRuby, and is built on top of JBossAS (). Come find out what it is, and how it can make your life perfect.Bio: Toby Crawley is a Rubyist that writes Java so you don't have to.

  • Hack Night

    7-8 Apr 2011 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

    6-7 Apr 2011 in Carrboro, United States

    For anyone who didn't get a chance to see Blake Watters's RestKit talk last month, you've got another chance! As usual, bring beer if you'd like.RestKit presents a simple, yet very powerful iOS API that allows the developer to integrate with backend web applications in the cloud without worrying about the complexities of HTTP, threading, data parsing/processing, and handling data persistence.

  • East Side Hack Night

    24-25 Mar 2011 in Raleigh, United States

    Same deal as the regular Hack Nights, just different time and place.

  • RestKit - Raleigh.rb March Meeting

    15-16 Mar 2011 in Morrisville, United States

    RestKit presents a simple, yet very powerful iOS API that allows the developer to integrate with backend web applications in the cloud without worrying about the complexities of HTTP, threading, data parsing/processing, and handling data persistence. It's of particular interest to Rubyists since RestKit embraces REST principles making it an ideal fit for interfacing with Rails-based applications.Bio: Blake Watters is CTO of Two Toasters and one of the primary developers of RestKit.

  • Hack Night

    3-4 Mar 2011 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!

  • Raleigh.rb February Meeting

    Wed, 16 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Raleigh, United States

    HotDraw Revisited (with a Jasmine Test-Driven HTML5 Canvas using JSON to talk to Rails... How Else Would You Do It?)In the late 80s, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham came up with HotDraw (..., a two-dimensional graphics framework for structured drawing editors, originally written in Smalltalk-80. Since then, many implementations have been created, and the principles applied in a lot of places. While a lot has been learned, the original HotDraw still outshines many of its successors.

  • East Side Hack Night

    9-10 Feb 2011 in Raleigh, United States

    Same deal as the regular Hack Nights, just different time and place.

  • Hack Night

    3-4 Feb 2011 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

    Thu, 3 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Carrboro, United States

    We have some exciting talks lined up for West End Ruby in the coming months. We'll lead off with one of the Ruby community's best speakers, Ben Scofield, who will lead a talk entitled Building Cloud Castles for Firmer Foundations.Anticipating a higher-than-usual turnout for this meetup, I've set the attendee limit at 20, so that we don't overflow the available space. Please only RSVP 'Yes' if you're gonna be there.

  • The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade May Meeting

    18-19 May 2010 in Raleigh, United States

    __Building native extensions. This could take a while.__We all know Ruby has C underpinnings, and we've all seen the native extension message when certain gems are installed, but what does it mean? What's a native extension? Can you build one? Is it hard? And when and why would you want to use one? Aren't they just for "other people"?Fear not! It's all surprisingly simple.

  • The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade April Meeting

    20-21 Apr 2010 in Raleigh, United States

    __Riak & Ripple__Riak is the hot new “NoSQL” database from Basho that scales like the Web using 100% organic free-range Unicorns. ActiveModel is the hot new framework in Rails 3 that extracts the best parts of ActiveRecord. Put them together and you’ve got Ripple, the fully-loaded Ruby client and modeling library for Riak.Kevin Smith and Sean Cribbs will talk about how Riak works, why you might want to choose Riak, and how to use Ripple as your own persistence layer.

  • Hack Night

    1-2 Apr 2010 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!

  • The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade March Meeting

    16-17 Mar 2010 in Raleigh, United States

    The CloudRob Sanheim, details TBA.

  • The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade February Meeting

    Wed, 17 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Raleigh, United States

    Story-Driven Development with CucumberSoftware projects struggle to be on-spec, on-time and on-budget, and a major cause is miscommunication. As Martin Fowler says, there is a "yawning crevasse of doom" between "suits" and developers, full of misunderstanding. How can we make sure that there is mutual understanding, and that the software actually meets the needs of the problem while improving the business bottom line?

  • The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade January Meeting

    Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Raleigh, United States

    SpreeCommerce - The Good, The Bad, and the UglySpreeCommerce bills itself as "The Most Powerful and Flexible E-Commerce Platform for the Ruby Enterprise". So, is it? Come hear an evaluation from someone who has used it as scaffolding for a SaaS platform and has discovered much of the good, the bad, and the ugly.Ken Auer has over twenty years of experience in agile software development, being active in the successful development of object oriented software since 1985.

  • Raleigh.rb December Book Exchange

    Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Raleigh, United States

    December Book Exchange Have you read an amazing book that all of us should know about but don't? Well, grab an extra copy and come out to our December meeting - we're doing a book exchange! The idea is simple: pick up an extra copy of that great book that's not so well known (no Agile Web Development with Rails, please), come out to the meeting, and we'll have a rousing "white elephant style" meme-swap.

  • West End Ruby - Intro to Cucumber

    2-3 Dec 2009 in 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.

  • 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.

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