Ruby on Rails Hong Kong

Meetup June 2010

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:19:57 +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 11:56:00 +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

Meet up in 2010.

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:33:14 +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.