Past Events
Open Source Hack Night
Wednesday, January 25 2012 at 12:00AM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Lightning Talks
Wednesday, January 11 2012 at 12:00AM
For our first meetup of 2012, we have a special, out-of-town guest: Custom Authentication with OmniAuth — Steven Haddox Rspec API Documentation (Lightning Talk) — Eric Oestrich Intro to Functional Programming in Dart (Lightning Talk) — Chris Strom Q&A iOS and other development matters — Jonathan Julian We still have room for a couple of shorter talks as well. If you're interested in presenting let us know!
Pub Night at Max's!
Wednesday, January 04 2012 at 12:00AM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
When Javascript Attacks! Jasmine and Require.js
Wednesday, December 14 2011 at 12:00AM
On tap for the last meetup of the year is: Jasmine-headless-webkit — John Bintz will help us get up and running with Jasmine specs in a headless WebKit browser. Surely, this is the fastest way to test your Javascript code. Require.js — Chris Strom will introduce this Javascript library loader and packager. A Rubyist's First Impressions of IOS Development — Jonathan Julian We still have room for others. Let us know if you're interested in presenting on something!
Open Source Hack Night
Wednesday, November 23 2011 at 12:00AM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Ruby Concurrency and MongoDB+RDBMS (Mixing It Up)
Wednesday, November 09 2011 at 12:00AM
So far this month, we have the following presentations: Mixin' it Up: Datastore Edition (ActiveRecord & MongoDB In The Same Project?!) — Eric Oestrich and Chris Cahoon Ruby Concurrency Realities — Mike Subelsky Have something you'd like to present? Let us know!
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, November 01 2011 at 11:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, October 25 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Lookingglass will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Redis, Hooks and Knockout.js
Tuesday, October 11 2011 at 11:00PM
On the agenda: Ruby Hooks Used in Rails — Andy Atkinson A Knockout.js Lightning Talk — Scott Messinger Rails View Testing & Shared Methods — Mark D. Blackwell "A Practical Use-Case for Redis: Leaderboards" — David Czarnecki Ruby Hooks Used in Rails The talk aims to introduce Ruby language hooks by demonstrating simplified, runnable code examples. The second part will cover example usages in Rails, trying to explain the usage example in context of the code around it, building on the simplified hook code example, to improve understanding of how and when to use the technique. A Practical Use-Case for Redis: Leaderboards In this talk, I'll present a practical use-case for Redis, leaderboards (aka high score tables). The pain and frustration of having to engineer leaderboards using a traditional database had me constantly looking for a more practical, simpler and more scalable solution. I will cover the commands in Redis to support leaderboards, a high-level library wrapping the Redis commands, use-cases for leaderboards, performance metrics, and a very interesting developer thought experiment that arose from developing the library. The talk is obviously taken from work we do here at Agora Games, but I promise it's not an advertisement talk or anything. I just want to give people a look at an interesting way to use Redis at scale.
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, October 04 2011 at 11:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, September 27 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
The Problem is Your Ruby
Tuesday, September 13 2011 at 11:00PM
Another awesome agenda on tap: The Problem is Your Ruby — Jeff Casimir Patterns in Backbone.js — Nick Gauthier Private CI with Jenkins — Keith We still have room for others. Got 5, 10, 20 minutes that you can spout off on something? Let us know!
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, September 06 2011 at 10:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, August 23 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Grease is the Word
Tuesday, August 09 2011 at 11:00PM
Currently on the agenda for August: Grease Your Toolkit Suite (GYST) helpers to speed up your tests — Matt Scilipoti Rails testing with CssString — Mark D.Blackwell Clean Dishes / Clean Code — Ashish Dixit Publishing Books with Git-scribe — Chris Strom If you have something you'd like to present, let us know. Even if it's only 5 minutes, we'll give you the floor :-)
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, August 02 2011 at 10:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, July 26 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Quick Hits: Patterns, Cramp, SPDY and More!
Tuesday, July 12 2011 at 11:00PM
For our July meetup, we will again have a clever mixture of 5, 10 and 30 minute talks. On the agenda: Advanced Rails Patterns: Compound Model and Page Objects — Nick Gauthier Developing Web Socket Applications with Cramp — Charles Melhorn "Representing JSON" — Sinclair Bain SPDY's Killer Feature: Server Push — Chris Strom
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, July 05 2011 at 10:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, June 28 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
June Lightning Talks!
Tuesday, June 14 2011 at 11:00PM
Another night with several smaller talks: OptionParser (stdlib) -- Jonathan Julian "Building Blocks" -- Andrew Hunter Directed Acyclic Graphs in Mongo -- Scott Messinger Guard and the modern Rails app -- John Bintz The strftime gem -- Jim Gay Server Push with SPDY -- Chris Strom
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, June 07 2011 at 11:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Jeff Casimir: Blow Up Your Views
Wednesday, June 01 2011 at 11:00PM
Whether you're new to Rails or have been around few years, chances are that your views are primitive. Detonate what you know about how views are written and let's start over. In this session you'll learn: Why your views suck Guidelines for view code quality Kill Helpers and work with Objects Instance Variables are Stupid Embracing Rails 3's intelligence JavaScript is not a four letter word By the end you'll be dying to blow up your views.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, May 24 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
My SPDY Sense is Tingling—Rubyists to the Resque!
Tuesday, May 10 2011 at 11:00PM
We will do several smaller (awesome) talks again this time. On the schedule: resque-forker, super awesome forking action for Resque worker — presented by Todd Fisher resque-pool, quickly fork a pool resque workers, saving memory and monitoring their uptime — presented by Nick Evans SPDY, a new protocol from Google built on top of HTTP that aims to cut page load time by 50% — presented by Chris Strom
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, May 03 2011 at 10:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, April 26 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
DevOps Gone Wild!
Tuesday, April 12 2011 at 11:00PM
Capistrano best practices — Warren Vosper Building Mongodb Servers with Vagrant and Chef — Nathen Harvey And, just to mix things up, some non-DevOps stuff... Letting Your Brain Work for You — Chris Cahoon Object Oriented CSS (oocss.org) Will Change Your Life — Scott Messinger Stupid Bash Tricks (and the ruby I wish I'd written) — Nick Evans
Pub Night at Max's!
Tuesday, April 05 2011 at 10:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. All are welcome at Max's Taphouse, Fells Point's most illustrious rathskeller featuring more than 100 beers on tap. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment.
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Tuesday, March 22 2011 at 11:00PM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Jeff Casimir: Fat Models Aren't Enough
Wednesday, March 09 2011 at 12:00AM
"Fat Models, Skinny Controllers" they scream. Pushing your logic down to the model layer is a key step to improve testability, maintainability, and code quality. But many developers now have "junk drawer" models that don't realize these goals. Having a fat model isn't enough! In this session we'll explore techniques for improving your models including: Using the presenter pattern Encapsulating logic into processor objects Better Rails through Better Ruby Guidelines to judge code quality and complexity When you leave this session you'll be dying to refactor some code! About the presenter: Jeff Casimir runs Jumpstart Lab, a small training company in DC specializing in Ruby and Rails courses.
Pub Night - now at Johnny Rad's!
Tuesday, March 01 2011 at 11:00PM
Come join the B'more on Rails crew for an evening of revelry and merriment. This is an opportunity to meet the local Ruby community in a relaxed social environment - no presentations, and (probably) no laptops. Johnny Rad's has great food (p-i-z-z-a!) and is highly recommended by a few B'more on Rails members. Stop by for dinner or a drink!
Ruby Open Source Hack Night
Wednesday, February 23 2011 at 12:00AM
Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in two to three hours. Our friends at Intridea will supply pizza. There is no minimum skill level - hacking with other people is a great way to learn, so if you don't have any open source ambitions of your own, or you are still new to ruby, that's okay! Come to help others, and come to learn. Feel free to bounce around ideas in "Talk about this Meetup" below!
Lightning, Dangerous Design, and CouchDB
Wednesday, February 09 2011 at 12:00AM
Enough Design to be DangerousJonathan Julian Developers are stereotypically bad at the aesthetics of page design. But it doesn't have to be that way. I'll describe some simple guidelines and tips to help you turn that Times New Roman, left justified, black and grey page into something at least a *little bit* attractive. I'll go over some basics such as creating pleasing spacing with margin and padding, how the css box model works, and styling links. You'll learn how to easily make decent looking submit buttons, as well as how to tastefully use border radius and text shadows. We'll briefly learn about choosing typefaces, picking colors, and various ways to align elements peacefully without complex table markup. It doesn't matter if you code with html, erb, or haml, you can apply these markup and css techniques to any project. CouchDB Chris Strom CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. We'll learn what all that means and how to put it to quick use.
Enough design to be dangerous
Wednesday, February 09 2011 at 12:00AM
Developers are stereotypically bad at the aesthetics of page design. But it doesn't have to be that way. I'll describe some simple guidelines and tips to help you turn that Times New Roman, left justified, black and grey page into something at least a *little bit* attractive. I'll go over some basics such as creating pleasing spacing with margin and padding, how the css box model works, and styling links. You'll learn how to easily make decent looking submit buttons, as well as how to tastefully use border radius and text shadows. We'll briefly learn about choosing typefaces, picking colors, and various ways to align elements peacefully without complex table markup. It doesn't matter if you code with html, erb, or haml, you can apply these markup and css techniques to any project. (20-30 minutes)
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