Past Topics
January 11, 2010: HTML5 Graphics
John Taber of Tiger Nassau told us about InksScape, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, and how Ruby can play a role with each.
December 14, 2009 : Christmas Cornucopia
- * RubyConf2009 Recap
- * Chris Matthieu told us about Spree.ly
- * Brian Sam-Bodden showed off Trellis
November 9, 2009: Game development
Logan Barnett and Jay McGavren, scheduled for RubyConf2009 for Jemini, a JRuby game development framework, gave a rough preview of their talk.
October 12, 2009: Ruby and Tokyo Cabinet, MongoDB, and Gruff
John Taber gave a great talk with code about using Ruby with Tokyo Cabinet, MongoDB, and Gruff charts
September 14, 2009: Ruby on the Google App Engine.
Naum Trifanoff talked about writing Ruby Web apps that run on Google’s App Engine.
Plus, James Britt showed off the Ruby::AZ business directory running quite beta-full on Google App Engine.
The code for the application can be found on GitHub
August 10, 2009: Testing JRuby/Swing UI’s with Swinger, while eating pizza.
James Britt of Ruby and Rails consulting company Neurogami spoke about functional testing of Swing GUI apps using Swinger. Plus: Rhesus, the world’s greatest code templating/generator thing ever.
Jay McGavren told us about Rinda. He’s provided some code up on GitHub so folks could play along
July 13, 2009: A quick and dirty talk on Twilio. And pizza.
Derek Neighbors of Integrum talked about Twilio, plus we kicked off the evening with some pizza, courtesy of the fine folks at Engine Yard.
June 08, 2009: Ruby hosting & deployment round-table discussion.
Ray Neimeir guided a discussion on best choices and practices for hosting and deploying Ruby Web applications.
May 11, 2009: Ruby + Processing
Preston Lee of OpenRain gave a wicked presentation on using Processing 3-D graphics library with Ruby
April 13 2009: Assorted Stuff
They’ll be a raffle for a free pass to Open Source Bridge, a new open source developers’ conference being held June 17–19, 2009 in Portland, Oregon.
Plus information on discount codes for PRUG members.
Korma, the Sinatra + Git blog tool that powers the soon-to-be-live-for-real Ruby Best Practices Blog
Running Ruby Web frameworks on Google Application Engine using JRuby, jruby-rack, and warbler.
March 9 2009: TBA
Please note the new meeting location!
February 9 2009 Ruby Prolog
Preston Lee of OpenRain will show off ruby_prolog.
January 12 2009
Building and selling a desktop Ruby application: a JotBot review
Yes, you can write and sell cross-platform commercial desktop Ruby applications. The recently released JotBot is proof.
David Koontz of Happy Camper Studios will give a review of what worked, what didn’t, and lessons learned in bringing a Ruby desktop application to the market.
The state of Ruby in the Phoenix metro area
Let’s kick off 2009 by exchanging what we are doing now and want do in the new year. If you’re part of a company doing Ruby development, come let everyone know how it’s going and what you expect in the months ahead.
If you’re an independent Rubyist or just doing in your free time, share what you hope to accomplish in 2009.
There will be pizza! Please RSVP.
HCS will be offering pizza before the meeting (~6:00pm), but we need to know how many people to expect, and roughly what sort of pizza to get.
Please RSVP to james@neurogami.com, or at upcoming.org.
December 8 2008: Exploring Merb
James Britt will walk through creating a Merb application from scratch, avoiding project generators in an attempt to illuminate the essential parts of a Merb application. There will probably be some Rack action in there too, since Rack rules.
November 10 2008: RubyConf recap
Hear what went down at RubyConf 2008. If you attended, please join us and share your observations. If you couldn’t make the conference, come find out what you missed.
Plus, creating, packaging, and deploying JRuby Rack applications.
October 13 2008: Controlling Ruby apps with a Wii remote
James Britt will demonstrate how to use a Wii game console remote to drive a JRuby application. See how to have your applications respond to Wiimote movement and button combinations. (Bonus: Hot Ruby MIDI-on-MIDI action!)
Some notes about the presentation and code are here
September 8 2008: Peer-to-peer with Journeta
Preston Lee gave a kick-ass talk about developing peer-to-peer applications using Journeta.