Austin On Rails

Presentation

We are excited to have Bruce Tate speaking to the group! Bruce will talk about his experience using Ruby on Rails within a local conservative organization and with a startup. He'll focus on some of the interesting challenges within his projects:

• Ramping up a Java team to do Ruby development
• Building in reporting by reflecting on Active Record objects
• Working with large trees, with mostly read access
• Challenges

About Bruce

Bruce Tate is a father, mountain biker, and independent consultant from Austin, Texas. He is a reforming Java developer with six books, including Beyond Java. He has two books nearing completion, including Rails: Up and Running (with Curt Hibbs), and From Java to Ruby. Bruce does design reviews, education, mentoring and jump starts for lightweight processes and technologies, including SCRUM with test-first development, Spring/persistence strategies (on Java), and Ruby with specializations in Rails, including Active Record.

Hack-a-thon

We've talked a lot about Rails, but tonight let's roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty with some code! Bring your laptop and let's try to throw together a Rails app. We were thinking that it would be fun to write a member directory app for this web site, but if you have a better idea we are open. To participate in coding, please make sure you have Ruby, Rails and MySQL installed.

Time and Place

Tuesday, Feb 21 at 7pm
Frog Design
804 Congress Ave