Ruby on Rails Hong Kong

May 2011 Codeaholics Meetup

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:58:00 +0800

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

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:13:00 +0800

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

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:46:00 +0800

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

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:34:00 +0800

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

December 2011 Hong Kong Ruby On Rails User Group Meetup Kevlin...

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:27:00 +0800

December 2011 Hong Kong Ruby On Rails User Group Meetup

Kevlin Henney shared about “Cool Code”, which includes a number of examples of code that are cool for reasons of history, geekiness, style and influence, etc.

Alex shown us Juggernaut - realtime push for web apps (http://github.com/maccman/juggernaut)

Rails Rumble 2010

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:49:00 +0800

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

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:37:00 +0800

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

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:19:00 +0800

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

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:43:00 +0800

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

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:57:00 +0800

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)

Ruby Rails HK Meetup - 17th May 2010

Mon, 17 May 2010 12:56:00 +0800

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

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0800

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.

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:33:00 +0800

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

From April meeting. William Yeung’s - “jQuery with...

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:00 +0800

From April meeting.

William Yeung’s - “jQuery with Rails” - slides and demo code.

HK IT Calendar

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0800

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

http://www.tinyurl.com/hkitcalendar

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23rd April 09 Gathering - JQuery on Rails

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:49:00 +0800

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!

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:02:00 +0800

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

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:26:24 +0800

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

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0800

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.