We start the year with a one hour presentation from Marc-André Cournoyer.

This presentation will teach you when and how to drop words such as “homoiconic” to impress your friends and family. … Oh! and we’ll also code a language similar to Io in less than 150 lines of Ruby code without any external library or utility. Satisfaction guaranteed!

 

A quick message to remember you that the early bird price for Confoo ends January 13th. You still have 3 days to save 200$.

When : January 17th, 2012 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Questions? : Contact me

EDIT : It’s in January, not in December. Thanks for the info.

EDIT 2 : It seems we changed year also.

The first talk will be by Martin Carel.

Back from a filmmaking journey in California’s wine country, Martin Carel will report on his experience (findings and failures) while making his documentary film Wine From Here. A special presentation about entrepreneurship, challenging trade-offs, how he conquered San Francisco, and how Los Angeles conquered him. Natural wine will be served!

In the second part, we will talk about Ruby MRI 1.9.3. What`s new? Try it before the 15 and tell us if you had compatibility problem. Do you have any performance gain with it (test, development, production)? With RVM, it should be pretty fast to try.

What : Montreal.rb meet-up

When : November 15th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Questions? : Contact me

The first part will be the Gem Club. Come and presents your preferred gems or the cool one you just learn. You can just talk about it, present it with code or even with a slide show.

 

In the second section, Martin Provencher (myself) will present : “CoffeeScript for Rubyist”. How can you write your favorite Ruby command in CoffeeScript? How can you do map, select, ||= and many others as one liners in CoffeeScript?

 

I’ll see you next Tuesday.

What : Montreal.rb meet-up

When : October 18th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Questions? : Contact me

What : Montreal.rb meetup

When : September 20th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Jobbook – 1980 Sherbrooke West

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

For September, I wanted to organize an architecture month. How should you organize you Ruby code to be able to scale it and use in a long term perspective in an enterprise.

The first talk will be by Colin Surprenant. He is currently the lead engineer at Needium. He will talk about distributed application messaging in Ruby using ZeroMQ and Redis. You can easily scale your ruby application using that architecture.

 

The second presentation will be by Francois Beausoleil. He was missing to talk in front of us . He is currently CTO at Seevibes. He will talk about why you should use JRuby in your next ruby project, why it is useful in a production environment.

This month, the meetup will occur at Jobbook – 1980 Sherbrooke West (near Guy-Concordia subway station). We will have a basketball or golf challenge before the meetup for free beer.

You still have 1 week to register to Confoo as a speaker. Don’t miss your chance.

What : Montreal.rb meetup

When : September 20th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Jobbook – 1980 Sherbrooke West

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

We will start with the Gem Club. Choose a gem to show to the others. We want to know which ones could help us develop faster in ruby.

In the second part, Jonathan Palardy will talk about ActiveRecord. “Where does your business logic live? In the controller? In the model? Really? Let’s talk about it.”

I’ll see you tomorrow.

What : Montreal.rb meetup

When : August 16th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

The first part of the meetup will start with the Gem club. Talk about which gem you use, you like, you dislike.

 

 

In the second part, Jonathan Palardy, will be our presenter. Here is the description of his talk :

Off the (Active)Record
Where does your business logic live? In the controller? In the model? Really?
Let’s talk about it.

Like last month, we will finish the night at the Benelux who offer us another free beer. This is the best place to talk with other people in the Ruby community in Montreal.

A little word about ConFoo : The ConFooBar will be held this Friday (August 5th) at the Pub le Ste-Elisabeth at 18:00. The day after, will be the ConFooBBQ at Mount-Royal park 13:00. The inscriptions for the ConFoo presentations are still open. Help me find the best speakers for this Web Conference.

Edit : Add Meetup information

What : Montreal.rb meetup

When : August 16th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Our next meetup will be on August 16. I still search 2 talkers for this event. It’s a great experience to go on the stage and show something you already experienced.

The ConFoo BBQ will occur August 6th. Come and talk with the other Web communities in Montreal. Food, beers and it’s free, you can’t miss that.

The Call For Paper is also open for ConFoo until September 2nd. Help us create the biggest web conference in Montreal with a great Ruby track. This year, you can also vote for the talks you find the most interesting. If you want to help more, I search someone to help me organize the Ruby track of the event.

Starting of September, I’ll try to have sponsors for our events. I’m searching companies that would be interested in buying a second round of beer at the Benelux and would like to help us create t-shirt for Montreal.rb. It’s a great way to find employees and make your company known by the Ruby community in Montreal. If you know any company that would be interested, put me in contact with them.

What : Montreal.rb meetup

When : July 19th, 2011 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Rails or Ruby

How much : Free