Ruby on Rails
Hong Kong

May 2011 Codeaholics Meetup

There doesn’t seem to be a Ruby meetup this month.

But Hong Kong Ruby Regular William Taysom will be giving a talk on “An introduction to Haskell” at Codeaholics next Wednesday.

Be sure to check it out

• Wednesday 25th May 2011
• 7pm - 9pm
• @Boot.hk
• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214451298578873

Drinks generously sponsored by Hong Kong Ruby Consultancy ThoughtSauce

April 2011 Ruby Meetup

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208699975818140

Finally another Ruby Meetup.

Friday 29th April 2011

7pm @ Boot.hk

We have Ian McFarland from Pivotal Labs talking about their approach to Ruby and Agile
We have Matthew Rudy talking about the controversial Coffee Script
And anyone else for anything else.

Talks will start about 7:30pm
Beer will be provided courtesy of Thought Sauce
and we will go out for dinner afterwards

See you there!

Codeaholics Feb 2011 Meetup: Mongo and jQuery/jqGrid

The February Codeaholics meetup will be held on 24th February, alongside the Ruby meetup.

For those unfamiliar with codeaholics, it is a language agnostic meetup where we like to cover anything relating to software design and development and meet with other techy folks.

Agenda:

• Giovanni Lion (his facebook) - Why I don’t like Mongoid, but I still use it.
• Eddie Lau - How I beat the stock market using Scala, Ruby and MongoDB (slides)
• Paul Gresham - (resnetfinancial.com, traderisk.com) Maintaining RESTful resources whilst supporting dynamic UI controls - which will cover jQuery/jqGrid and REST.

As always, drinks and snacks during the talks will be sponsored by http://thought-sauce.com/ and location provided by http://boot.hk/!

Date Time & Location:

• 19:00, 24th February 2011
• Boot.hk - 19/F, Hang Wai Commercial Building, 231-233 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong
http://boot.hk/pages/boothk-home#location

January 2011 Hong Kong Ruby Meetup

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192692474090685

Agenda:

William Taysom on automatically generating glue code for calling C/C++ libararies

Jason Crane will be talking about his most recent project and a number of interesting gems

As always, drinks and snacks will be provided by Thought-Sauce.com

Date Time: 19:00, 27th January 2011

Location: Boot.hk

19/f Hang Wai Commercial Building,

231-233 Queen’s Road East,

Wan Chai, Hong Kong

http://boot.hk/pages/boothk-home#location

Rails Rumble 2010

there were 3 teams participating Rails Rumble and Rex’s team entered the final round ~ Congratz !

http://www.stillalive.com

http://kookiebox.r10.railsrumble.com

http://newsprank.com

Enjoy ~

http://cbbnews.info/stories/william-the-nobel-prize-winner-for-literature

November 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170036503009465

Agenda

• Dave the Ninja (NinjasOnRails NinjaOnDotNet) will talk about “coding Javascript like it was Ruby using Js.class”
• Team Hongkie Kong will talk about “Rails Rumble, and what we learnt”

Date time & Venue

Date: Tuesday November 2nd 2010, 7:30pm until whenever

Venue: BootHK

Address: 19/f Hang Wai Commercial Building, 231-233 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

GMap: http://bit.ly/derD0j

Link: http://boot.hk

Meetup June 2010

Start your holiday the right way with the Ruby on Rails meetup on Tuesday 15th June 7pm.

Date: Tuesday June 15th 2010

Time: 7pm until whenever

Venue: AMP Capital

Address: Room 2105A, 21/F Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

GMap: http://bit.ly/d7NWDW

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124348937600251

Agenda:

• Giovanni Lion will talk about Haml and Sass
• Matthew Rudy will talk about something probably
• Dave the Ninja may talk about moving from .NET ;-)
• anyone else can talk about anything else

Passionate hackers, programming newbies, startups, entrepreneurs and students (basically… everyone) are welcome ~

HKRor Meetup in May 2010 - Writeup

The Meetup in May took part weeks ago. we had a really nice Chaozhou dinner afterward. Thanks William (GearBox Software) for offering the office (and AWESOME COFFEE!) for the meetup.

Here is a quick wrap up of stuff discussed:

Matthew had gone through his chinese “tutorial” Ruby application pootonghua which utilized many plugins and tools:

• Sinatra - gem that allows simple and quick web service
• Heroku - hosting that supports easy deployment. as simple as installing a gem and push changes to git repository.
• stored data in JSON format for a small set of data. may consider a key-value db if the size of data growing

Some random issues were raised during the meetup:

• After a while, your Sinatra file may bloat very fast, because you have to define at least one block for one url pattern. It was suggested to refactor regularly and even split them into different folder and namespace.
• Have to be aware of the caching done by Heroku. Although it is a nice feature to be provided by default, sometimes you may not get the behavior you were expecting.
• Pricing of Heroku is kind of confusing, especially the memory and worker units(dynos) calculation. You may better start with the lowest specification first and then do some testing benchmarking before you upgrade to a higher package.
• String#end_with does not work on Heroku environment, *perhaps* the ruby version is not the latest 1.8.7. btw, you can change the Heroku ruby version by heroku stack.
• MongoDB and Cabinet-db looks interesting to most of us. It was encouraged to have a look and try it out.

Looking forward to June 2010 Hong Kong Ruby Meetup ~

Rubyconf China 2010 (June/26th) in Shanghai

Rubyconf China is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year takes place in Shanghai, China, on the 26th of June.

Keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Inventor of Ruby)