Sept 20th, 2011 Meetup

Ruby News

• Rails 3.1 stable release
• Ben and Eugene are looking to hire Contract and Full-time RoR Developers
• jQuery 1.6.4 released
• Mongodb 2 released
• RailsRumble delayed until Sprint 2012

Talks (10 minutes)

1. Ruby Recap (Beginner)
   • How to add JavaScript tests to your app with the jasmine gem
2. Project Management Tools (Beginner)
   • Just the basics: stories/issues/bugs.
   • What are people using? Pivotal? AgileZen Trello JIRA? FogBugz and Trello. Anything else?
   • Demos:
     • Sean: JIRA/GreenHopper
   • A focus on Agile and small teams.
3. Proc, Bloc, and Lambda with @darkhelmetlive (Beginner)
4. Anyone else? CLICK "EDIT PAGE" AND ADD YOUR NAME AND TOPIC HERE (Beginner/Moderate/Advanced)

Demo (10 minutes)

1. Daniel - Tinderizer (jRuby, girl_friday, Haskell, Readability)

Attendees

• Sean
• Fletcher (@fnichol)
• Not Mark (I'm in Europe!)
• Dana Janssen - this will be my first time to a yegrb meetup. If you're reading this and never been to a meetup, you should come too! :)
• Tom - unless Real Life gets in the way or it turns out I can't leave my kids Home Alone. Should be able to do a quick demo of AgileZen.
• Daniel - LIKE A BOSS
• Ryan Jones - Unless Fiance's water breaks