RubyJax

• who: Big Tiger
• where: Navigator Coffee Squadron, 7643 Gate Pkwy, Jacksonville, FL 32256 (904) 928-0048
• when: Tuesday, January 20, 7-9pm
• what: ThinkingSphinx – Intro to Full-text and Geospatial Searching

Tired of rolling your own search? Want to define what data is indexed in your ActiveRecord models? What if you could get all of this AND be able to search by geographical information for next to nothing? Look no further, we will be covering basic ThinkingSphinx setup through a full location based search. You’ll see step by step how to set up and execute full-text searching while you drink beer and eat pizza courtesy of Hashrocket.

• what: Ruby Best Practice Patterns
• who: Rein Henrichs
• where: team gaia warehouse, 510 w 5th st., atlantic beach, fl 32233
• when: wednesday, june 18th 7-9pm
• why: This presentation is being prepared for Ruby Hoedown ‘08.

Design patterns are all about making the right decision. Making the right decision consistently leads to successful software. This presentation will help you learn how expert Ruby coders make the right decisions by demonstrating and explaining some of the most useful Ruby Best Practice Patterns. These patterns are inspired and informed by Kent Beck’s seminal Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns book and taken from Rein’s upcoming Ruby Best Practice Patterns book. The examples are gathered from some of your favorite Ruby gems and from Ruby itself, by way of Rubinius !

directions to team gaia

we’re back at the beach this time since rob warner will be out of town, so availity avails us no availability.

Host

TeamGaia allowed us to use their studio. They are teens teaching teens how to make films about issues relevant to teens. Recently they were nominated for an Emmy, they lost out to a little production house named MTV (as in Video Killed the Radio Star). Special thanks to Shane for sticking around and running the A/V equipment.

Purpose

The purpose of this meeting was a meet and greet for local ruby/rails people.

Attendees

Jon Larkowski

Recently relocated from Madison, WI and living in Jax Beach. HashRocket Astronaut

Steven Bristol

Owner: Less Everything, their flagship product is Less Accounting

Corey Grusden

Divergent Software

Louis Kemp

Came from vb6 land

Tom Rossi

molehill – powerfully small software

Chris Chandler

Professional Rails developer for negative 1.5 weeks.

Obie Fernandez

Smalltalk => Java => Thoughtworks => Rails => CityCliq => HashRocket

Author: The Rails Way

Series Editor: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

Rob Warner

Blog

Wes Gibbs

Gestalt LLC

Chad Bearden

BearDen Designs

Suggested Micro-Volunteering application which has an analog in micro-lending.

Les Hill

RedLambda

Desi McAdam

DevChix

HashRocketeer

Kevin Finn

molehill – powerfully small software

tick – time tracking software

Phil Langeberg

Started programming through Welding school

Sandro Turriate

Django Evangelist

PostgreSQL Evangelist

Ben McDonald

No pickle

Blog

Koders

Jim “Big Tiger” Remsik

Official RubyJax Photographer

HashRocket Street Team Coordinator

Recordkeeper until he can pawn it off on to some unsuspecting soul …

External Links

Lighthouse – hosted issue tracking app implemented in Ruby on Rails, svn integration

Trac

RailsMachine – Rails host used by some RubyJax members

EngineYard – Premium Rails host, useful if you don’t want to have to administer your own server.