Exciting times in the Austin on Rails community! We’ve just come off of an another amazing year of the Lone Star Ruby Conference organized by Jim Freeze and a cadre of dedicated staff/volunteers. What a blessing it is for us here in Austin to have that conference continue to thrive.

This month, we are going to have talks from developers at Gowalla and Mass Relevance about common mistakes developers tend to make in Rails and how to run a high traffic Rails site with Varnish.

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This month at Austin on Rails is guaranteed to take you on a magical journey. We’ve scheduled two talks that will inspire you; one that will change the way you make friends and another that will make you want to redesign your app. This month’s meeting is organized by Dave Rupert.

How Richard Found Friends - Richard Schneeman

So you’ve got a social web application, and you’ve got users, but you’ve got a problem…your throngs of users could be a tad more social. Your mission is to make your service more useful to your users, by helping them to find friends and stay active.

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