Montreal.rb

Looking for new presenters

If you’ve come before, you know we’re a cool bunch and we don’t bite anyone. If you’ve never presented before but would like to do so, do get in touch with me: francois@teksol.info. There are a variety of topics you could present on:

• Interesting gems you’ve come accross: rvm, homebrew, chef, thor, trinidad, unicorn or, hydra
• Rubinius hit 1.0: talk about what changed since Mathieu Martin talked about it in March 2008
• There’s also MagLev, an alternative Ruby implementation
• NoSQL is all the rage: we have talked about Redis in the context of Resque, but Redis has a lot more to offer. Then there are also other NoSQL implementations: Cassandra, TokyoCabinet and many others

Any of those topics is a candidate for a talk. You don’t have to talk long either: 5-10 minutes to give us an overview of some technology.

If you’re interested, talk to me!

How to upgrade to Rails 3 by Jonathan Palardy

It is official! Jonathan Palardy will show us how to upgrade your existing Rails 2.3 applications to Rails 3. And since moving to Rails 3 entails using Bundler, I, François Beausoleil, will present Bundler first.

Our meetup will be on May 18th, 2010, at 6:30 PM at 481 Viger W, in Montreal’s downtown.

Next Montreal.rb: May 18th, 2010

Back to technical matters this month!

We’ll be talking Bundler and Rails 3. François Beausoleil (me!) will present Bundler, how to use it now, what problems it solves, and I’m still waiting for a confirmation on a Rails 3 presenter.

As usual, we’ll be at 481 Viger W., at 6:30 PM on May 18th. Free admission for all. Thanks to Bloom Digital Platforms for the venue.