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 ~
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:
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Sinatra - gem that allows simple and quick web service
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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 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)
The May Meetup of Hong Kong Ruby / Rails Group will be held Monday 17th May 2010 7:00pm.
This time we go to Gearbox office near Diamond Hill MTR:
GearBox Software
Rm 1205, 12/F, Max Trade Centre,
23 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
http://bit.ly/d7ewam
Talks will include:
- Dave The Ninja - talking about his move from .Net to Ruby
- Matthew Rudy Jacobs - talking about “Reportify” and how to design a nice API
- anyone else - anything
talks starting about 7:30. We will of course go for food after the talks, and continue the discussion over whatever delicious cuisine Diamond Hill has to offer
Date: Thursday February 18th 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
Arrangements:
Matthew Rudy to talk about Upgrading Your App to Rails 3 - how, and why.
If you plan on coming
drop us a line to let us know
or fill out this doodle
http://www.doodle.com/75446uxi9pbsxkre
Directions:
Take the MTR to Admiralty
Exit A1, and walk north to Gloucester Road
Walk West along Gloucester Road
3 blocks later you’ll reach Harcourt House
21st floor, Room 2105A
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See Also:
Hong Kong IT User Group Meetups Index
Date 23rd April Thursday Night
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Place: HKPC Kowloon Tong
HKPC Building, 78 Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.hkpc.org/
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Topics: We have 2 confirmed talk:
- Harmonize jQuery with Rails
Issues for integrating jQuery inside Rails and solutions
by William Yeung
- Running Rails on Apache + Passenger
by Aaron Farr
Anyone else can give a presentation or have anything to share are welcome.
Beginners can also suggest topics they’ll like to know more about.
Come join a group of HK ruby and rails developers, share ideas, experiences, best practises and tell us what you’re working on.
First meeting is casual with some pizzas to get to know each other and plan for future topics/meetings.
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Causeway Bay
2/f, Park Lane Tower, 5 Moreton Terrace, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=45756783995&ref=mf
It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3!
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3
From Zed:
(Mongrel+Erb) == Rails?
Fucking awesome. I’m so glad that DHH and friends were able to put away
their stupid competitive bullshit and realize they have the chance to make
something better. Too bad it’s probably too late in the project to make
an impact, but it does give me some hope that Ruby people are actually
trying to be nicer.
