Welcome toRuby Tuesday :)

January 24, 2012

Tonight’s Plan

A few announcements

Introduce yourselves

Video: Fat Models Aren’t Enough

Break: food and networking

Group project roundtable / Katas

Announcements

February Speaker:Peter Cooper

RubyInside.com

Ruby Weekly

Ruby Flow

Author of Beginning Ruby (Apress)

March Speaker:Jeff Casimir

Jumpstart Lab Founder

Ruby, Rails, jQuery Teacher

As seen in Codeschool’s jQuery Air: First Flight

...and tonight’s video :)

Real Quick:Rails 3.2 is out!

Real Quick:Rails 3.2 is out!

More details at weblog.rubyonrails.org

Group Project

What?

Why

Introduce yourselves...

Video time! :)

Talk: Fat Models Aren’t Enough

Slides at: http://bit.ly/jeff-fmae or

(backup) http://bit.ly/jeff-fmae2

Talk: Fat Models Aren’t Enough

Thoughts? Questions?

Break: Food and Schmoozing...

After the break, we’ll talk about the group projectIt’s optional, but it would be great to hear your thoughts

Katas

Beginners: Google “Ruby yellow belt kata”

Or: http://bit.ly/yellow-belt-kata

Intermediate/Advanced:

http://bit.ly/refactoring-kata

Kata Practice

$ git clone https://github.com/jimweirich/gilded_rose_kata

Thoughts on the current list of projects?

How should we divvy up the tasks?

Focus on group learning? How?

How can we optimize learning / growth?

Group Project Roundtable Talk

Project Ideas List

Open Source Gem Showcase app - A ruby-toolbox.com for gems that need lovin’

Work on Nifty Assignments - Academic-style assignments

Whenbot: ifttt.com clone- Trigger -> Parse -> Publish

Table-Easy - Table parser / presenter

(In the order submitted)