The Kansas City Ruby Meetup Group

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Past events

  • KC Ruby: the farewell edition

    Wed, 9 May 2012, 00:00 - 02:00 in Kansas City, United States

    This month we'll be saying farewell to Rubyists that are leaving town.Join us for an evening out: good food, drinks, and conversation.Details to be decided.

  • KC Ruby: the pigskin edition

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    We'll be discussing what's hot in the Ruby world.

  • May Meetup: <clever title here>

    Wed, 11 May 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    *Allen Riddle: Hiromi - A new templating library *Craig Cottingham - Chef *Brent McKee - Puppet

  • April meetup: the Let's Just Start Over edition

    10-11 May 2011 in Leawood, United States

    Our next meeting is April 12th. Add it to your calendar now.Meet early for pizza, provided by David Noyce, post-meeting at Charlie Hoopers when we're done.If you want to volunteer to speak, please reply and we'll update this schedule. Longer talks or short demo talks are both welcome.Schedule:So far, we don't have a good replacement for meetup's Ideas section.  We don't have the talks formalized yet, so this is a *great* chance for anyone who would like to speak.

  • Go To Red Dirt Ruby Conference

    Thu, 21 Apr 2011, 13:00 - 15:00 in Norman, United States

    I know several people mentioned they were interested in attending the conference. Wanted to see about organizing car pools and as well as sharing rooms.

  • April meetup: the Let's Just Start Over edition

    12-13 Apr 2011 in Leawood, United States

    Our next meeting is April 12th. Add it to your calendar now.The post-meeting is at Charlie Hoopers when we're done.If you want to volunteer to speak, please reply and we'll update this schedule. Longer talks or short demo talks are both welcome.Schedule:So far, we don't have a good replacement for meetup's Ideas section.  We don't have the talks formalized yet, so this is a *great* chance for anyone who would like to speak.

  • Diaspora

    1-2 Apr 2011 in Blue Springs, United States

    This is an interesting project, being developed in ruby, that decentralizes social networks. Think facebook, but without one big company owning all the data on your usage, habits, and preferences.I'd love to learn more about this if anyone has any experience with it.

  • March meetup: the code retreat edition

    Wed, 9 Mar 2011, 00:30 - 02:30 in Leawood, United States

    Our next meeting is March 8th.  We'll meet at 6:30 to eat and chat and start the meeting at 7:00.We have a sponsor for our next meeting, so pre-meeting with food is at Centriq!Thanks to Patrick Wertzberger, from Farmers Insurance:  you have a car, own a house, rent a place, or have a family, you probably have insurance.  Patrick would be happy to give you a free quote and since you're a member of KC Ruby, you probably qualify for the "Scientist" discount.

  • February meetup: the show-and-tell edition

    Wed, 9 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    Our next meeting is February 8th. Add it to your calendar now. That's a mere 11 days from today!We have a sponsor for our next meeting, so pre-meeting with food is at Centriq!Thanks to Scott Hipp, from Lifetime Financial Solutions ().  Scott is a CPA and financial planner and is gearing up for tax time, so if you need someone to do your taxes, he's great.  He handles both my business and personal taxes and has my personal recommendation.

  • "Integration Testing", "Rails3, MongoDB, & Mongoid", and "Mother's Day Regex"

    Wed, 9 Jun 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Kansas City, United States

    Ryan Felton & Kyle Ginavan - Integration Testing: locally and on the grid.Eric Hurst - I've been getting up close with Rails3, MongoDB, & Mongoid lately. I'd love to share my findings and experiences at the June meetup (at the earliest). I would cover properly setting up MongoDB/Mongoid in your app; query differences why they suck, and how I made them not suck (it's not hard); references a.k.a. relationships; and anything else related I find awesome in the interim.

  • May KCRUG

    Wed, 12 May 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    Mike Hemesath will be presenting on Object Oriented & Scalable CSS this upcoming Ruby Users Group Meeting. Meetings starts at 7:00 and generally ends with a trip to Charlie Hooper's for drinks and socializing. Object Oriented & Scalable CSS primer can be found at Message -----I [Kyle J. Ginavan] volunteering my partner [Mike Hemesath] in crime to talk on the above subject. I [Kyle J.

  • April "No Snow" Meeting

    Wed, 14 Apr 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    Ruby - Making programmers happyApril "No Snow" Agenda:* Wes Garrison - Data Visualization* Ryan Smith - Building an Interpreter in Ruby* Steven Chau - Baby Fame iPhoneDate:Tuesday - April 13, 2010Time:6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out"7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks

  • Exploring Rails 3

    Thu, 18 Feb 2010, 17:00 - 19:00 in Lenexa, United States

    Meeting as a group to watch the Exploring Rails 3 Online Conference at BlackDog Coffee House.Follow the conversation here at ...> Rails 3 is taking its final shape, so there's no better time to take> a close look at the work that's been done in the past year. Join us> for a series of talks on everything you'll need to get started with> it – from creating a new application, to upgrading from Rails 2, to> the foundation that makes it all possible.

  • February 9 KCRUG Meetup

    Wed, 10 Feb 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Leawood, United States

    Ruby - Making programmers happy.February Agenda: *Luke Pillow will present on creating and publishing gems *Kyle Ginavan will present on "Why Progressive Enhancement" *Lightning talks, geek-out session, whateverTime: *6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out" *7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks

  • January "Chosen Frozen" Meetup

    Wed, 13 Jan 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Leawood, United States

    January Agenda:•Shashank will present on Blocks and Procs and Lambdas (oh my)•There will be a short business meeting -- looking ahead @KCRUG•Lightning talks, geek-out session, whateverDate:Tuesday - January 12, 2010Time6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out"7:00-8:30PM Scheduled TalksWhereCentriq Foss8700 State Line RdLeawood, KS 66206

  • December Social

    Wed, 9 Dec 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Kansas City, United States

    Ruby - Making programmers happy. December Agenda: No Presentations this month -- a social event, instead - * Dinner and more (see the Google Group) Date: Tuesday - December 8th, 2009 Time See the Google Group Where See the Google Group

  • November 10th KCRUG Meetup

    Wed, 11 Nov 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in Leawood, United States

    November Agenda: Presentations - Ruby Book Reviews with Joshua French Lightning talks and general geek-out session, with an emphasis on frameworks and stacks Date: Tuesday - November 10th, 2009 Time - 6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out" 7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks 8:30-6:00AM Charlie Hoopers, afterwards? Where - Centriq Foss 8700 State Line Rd Leawood, KS 66206

  • October KCRUG Meetup - Sanity in your RoR Enterprise

    Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    Presentations - * Managing your enterprise the Ruby Way: Puppet with Brent McKee * Load Testing your Web App with Erlang: Tsung with Steven Chau Date: * Tuesday - October 13th, 2009 Time: * 6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out" * 7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks * 8:30-6:00AM Charlie Hoopers, afterwards? Where * Centriq Foss * 8700 State Line Rd * Leawood, KS 66206

  • Rails Rumble Recaps (Or, Ruby and a bunch of "R's")

    Wed, 9 Sep 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Leawood, United States

    Ruby - Making programmer's happy. September Tentative Agenda: Rails Rumble Recaps (Or, Ruby and a bunch of "R's") * Presenters TBD Date: Tuesday - September 8th, 2009 Time 6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out" 7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks 8:30-6:00AM Charlie Hoopers, afterwards? Where Centriq Foss 8700 State Line Rd Leawood, KS 66206 Let's get ready to rumble!

  • Who Moved My TextMate? (Or, the great editor cage match)

    11-12 Aug 2009 in Kansas City, United States

    [list]*Ryan Smith & Allen Riddle - Why Vim Rocks (One editor to rule them all)*Jaime Bellmyer - How the other half lives (Linux editors that work)*Impromptu Lightning Talk(s)[/list]Date:[list]*Tuesday - August 11th, 2009[/list]Time[list]*6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out"*7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks*8:30-6:00AM Charlie Hoopers, afterwards?[/list]

  • July Meetup - Ruby - Making programmer's happy

    14-15 Jul 2009 in Leawood, United States

    July Agenda * Sean Cribbs - Erlang * Jaime Bellmyer - Scrum * Impromptu Lightning Talk(s)Time 6:30-7:00PM Informal "Hang out" 7:00-8:30PM Scheduled Talks 8:30-6:00AM Charlie HoopersSorry for the late posting on this. We put it on the KCRUG site, but not on the Meetup site.

  • June Bugs and KC.rb

    9-10 Jun 2009 in Kansas City, United States

    Come one and all to hear compelling conversation on the following: * Ryan Felton - Web Entrepreneurship - Part 2 * Luke Pillow - "Beginning Rails" OR "Ruby Best Practices - Learning from Smalltalk" * Impromptu Lightening Talk(s)

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