Ruby on Rails
Hong Kong

Ruby Rails HK Meetup - 17th May 2010

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

April 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup

William gone through his experience looking for a light weight full text search indexer. after considering scalability, memory consumption, database_dependent? and stability and he picked Xapian with Xapain-Fu interface. He showed us how easy to start using Xapian.

another candidate Solr was recommended for larger scale enterprise level architecture.

links to Xapian and Solr:

http://xapian.org

http://github.com/johnl/xapian-fu

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Adam demonstrated two awesome free agile project management tools: 

- Pivotal Tracker http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

- Story Mapper (Carbon Five) http://www.trackerstorymaps.com/

Pivotal Tracker is a full-feature tool which handles user story, backlog, release, … etc.

Story Mapper integrates on top of Pivotal Tracker to manage large projects with lots of stories, modules and complicated releases.

They provide clean and smooth-running user interface to visualize everything. well-organized.

check out other 3rd party tools here: www.pivotaltracker.com/help/thirdpartytools

Meet up in 2010.

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

HK IT Calendar

For those that are interested in other IT events and meetups, please follow this:

http://www.tinyurl.com/hkitcalendar

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See Also:

Hong Kong IT User Group Meetups Index

23rd April 09 Gathering - JQuery on Rails

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.

牛年 New Year Meetup!

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

Merb + Rails = Rails3

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.

Welcome HK Rubyists

Welcome to the new blog of ruby on rails user group. We’ve started humbly back in 2006.

Our google group recently has a misfortunate accident from the google side.

A new group has been setup now: http://groups.google.com/group/hkror

Please kindly sign-up again.

We’re looking for speakers, helpers to start organising events regularly for 2009. If you’d like to get involved please email rex [at] rorcraft [dot] com.