Ruby/Rails Meetup Groups and Ruby Brigades in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest

Meet Rubyists and Railers in your city and attend a Ruby/Rails meetup or Ruby Brigade hack night. Groups include:

In Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta):

• Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup
• Victoria Ruby Users Group
• Calgary Ruby Users Society (CRUserS)

In the Pacific Northwest in the United States (Washington, Oregon):

• Seattle Ruby Brigade (Seattle.rb)
• Portland Ruby Brigade (PDX.rb)

Thanks to all - See you at the Vancouver RubyCamp in 2009

Thanks for joining us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp. Special thanks to all our speakers and our sponsors. Speakers included:

Eric Promislow, Peter Armstrong, Scott Patten, Jim Pick, Mark Mayo, Joe Bowser, Brock Whitten, Eric Hodel, Ryan Davis, Vince Hodges, Paul Prescod, Kurt Cagle, Alexey Verkhovsky, Tom Kukuljevic-Pearce, Marc Gomez, Ian Suda

See you at the Vancouver RubyCamp in 2009!

Showtime! Join us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp today from 9 to 5 - Free and Everyone Welcome

Doors will open at 9 o’clock and we will kick-off camp-style with a talk scheduling session starting at 9:15.

The idea is that everyone interested in presenting gives a two/three minute summary and than we arrange the schedule and room assignments depending on interest and expected audience and start off with the first talks at 9:30.

For the non-hack-a-thon we will have 45 minutes slots:

• 9:30-10:15
• 10:15-11:00
• 11:00-11:45
• Lunch Break
• 1:00-1:45
• 1:45-2:30
• 2:30-3:15
• 3:15-4:00
• 4:00-4:45
• The End

For upcoming talks, see our RubyCamp wiki.

If you plan to speak today, just add yourself to the wiki to help us with the scheduling and planning. We accept last minute talks.

See you all at Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp.

Engine Yard and ActiveState Sponsor RubyCamp 2008 - Thank You

Thanks to our prime sponsor Engine Yard (Enterprise Rails Deployment Means People & Technology) and our supporting sponsor ActiveState (Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages) for helping us with the rental fee at WorkSpace and supporting Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp to bring together Rubyists and Railers from Western Canada, the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Where? Join us at WorkSpace @ 400 – 21 Water St in Downtown Vancouver

About our venue:

WorkSpace
400 – 21 Water St.
Vancouver BC, V6B 1A1 (Search on Google Maps for “21 Water St., Vancouver“).

What Is WorkSpace?

WorkSpace is a shared work environment in downtown Vancouver. Our Gastown loft has meeting rooms, a lounge & a café surrounding a beautiful open concept work environment. Read more…

Vancouver RubyCamp 2008 - Talk Highlights

Here is the list of talks that we have confirmed so far. For more detail on the talks, see the wiki page. Make sure you scroll down, as there are a ton of great talks.

There’s still time to add a talk or two, but let us know soon so that we can fit you in the schedule.

Note for the speakers: If you won’t be at the conference for the full day, or if you won’t be able to make it for the scheduling round first thing in the morning, let me know at scott@spattendesign.com so that we can make sure you get on the schedule at a time that works for you.

Without further ado, here’s the list:

Wrangling Large Data Sets with Rails and JavaScript

Presenter: Eric Promislow, ActiveState

TrimPath Junction (Ruby on Rails in 100 % JavaScript)

Presenter: Jim Pick

JRuby (Ruby on Java)

Presenter: Alexey Verkhovsky, ThoughtWorks

Hosting Options, Tips and Tricks for Scaling Ruby on Rails Facebook Apps

Presenter: Mark Mayo, Joyent

Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2

Presenter: Peter Armstrong, Ruboss

What’s Ahead for JavaScript?

Presenter: Kurt Cagle

Secrets of a Successful Rails Deployment

Presenter: Vince Hodges and Paul Prescod, Kinzin

Techniques for Improving Rails Reliability

Presenter: Kukuljevic-Pearce, Kinzin

Multi-Threaded Image Uploading and Thumbnailing with Mongrel, Rack, ImageScience and Thread Queues

Presenter: Vince Hodges and Marc Gomez and Ian Suda, Kinzin

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) on Rails

Presenter: Arash Sanieyan, Peerglobe Technology

Rails and Not-for-Profits (The DogOnRails Presentation)

Presenter: Joe Bowser, Nitobi Software / FreeTheNet Vancouver

Rubyize This!

Presenter: Scott Patten, spatten design (This will be in the hackathon-unconference track.)

We Heart JavaScript Talks About Ruby’s Ugly-Cool Half-Sister

Note, that we welcome talks on JavaScript - “Ruby’s ugly-cool half-sister” to quote err.the_blog.

Need talk ideas? Have talk ideas? Stop at our RubyCamp event wiki page.

Upcoming JavaScript-centric talks include:

• Wrangling Large Data Sets with Rails and JavaScript
• Introduction to Ruby-Generated JavaScript (RJS)
• TrimPath Junction (Ruby on Rails in 100 % JavaScript)
• What’s Ahead for JavaScript?

Interested in presenting at RubyCamp 2008? Send in your talk proposal today!

Unconference event: Rubyize This! Live in Vancouver

Rubyize This! is a fun little coding game invented by François Lamontagne of Ruby Fleebie. The idea is that someone puts up a chunk of code that is written in Ruby, but in a not very Rubyish way. Then, everyone in the audience gets to Rubyize it!

I’ll present some ugly sample code, and the audience will submit their refactorings to Refactor My Code. When everyone is done, you get to present your Rubyization.

Feel free to bring your own ugly sample code for us to work on too.

Should be fun for all, novice Rubyist to expert!

Welcome - Join us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp @ WorkSpace on January 26th, 2008

Welcome. You are invited to join us for RubyCamp 2008 in Vancouver on Saturday, January 26th.

RubyCamp is a free one-day gathering for Rubyists and Railers.

When and Where:

WorkSpace in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Canada
January 26th, 2008 from 9:00 to 5:00

Who Should Come:

Anyone who’s interested in Ruby and Rails, whether you’re just interested in learning what this Ruby thing is all about or you know Ruby inside out.

The Conference Track:

A conference-style track with “classic” talks on Ruby or Rails topics. We’re looking for a few more speakers, send in your talk proposal!

The Hackathon Track:

An informal un-conference track focusing on hacking some Ruby code, showing off a cool feature you just added to your Rails application or demonstrating a new addition to Rails 2.0. If you’re interested in working on some code or showing off something, get started by promoting your ideas and get some buzz going.

A Weekend of Ruby:

There are two more reasons to come to Vancouver for those of you who are out of town.

On the Friday before RubyCamp, Rails Advance is giving a one day Intermediate Ruby and Rails Workshop.

On the Sunday after RubyCamp, Peter Armstrong is giving a one day workshop on Flexible Rails.

About Vancouver:

Vancouver is located in Beautiful British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific West Coast. While you’re in the 2010 Winter Olympics City take advantage of the great snowboarding and skiing in nearby Whistler/Blackcomp or Cypress Mountain.

See you all at RubyCamp in Vancouver.