Montreal.rb: the testing edition
Mark your calendars: Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30PM, at Bloom Digital’s office – rsvp here.
Paul Mylchreest will give us an overview of pluginaweek’s state_machine.
Martin Aumont is presenting watchr, a modern continuous testing tool that’s more flexible than autotest.
The last presentation has François Beausoleil explaining how he used state_machine and watchr to build Nestor, which makes your tests run much, much faster.
Next Montreal.rb Tuesday, October 20th
The next regular Montreal.rb is Tuesday October 20th (rsvp here).
Do you have a topic that would be appropriate for a lightning talk? If so, contact me! (chebuctonian AT gmail). In particular, we could really use a talk for beginners.
François Beausoleil will discuss grit, which provides an object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby.
A few others have suggested talks, without confirmation so far. Fear not: if we’re short on talks, we’ll just have more time for drinks.
September Montreal.rb with Blake Mizerany
We’re back from our summer break! The next meeting on Montreal.rb will be September 15th. Please RSVP to ensure we have enough space.
Blake Mizerany will give us an insider’s view on Heroku.
Sylvain Carle will present a logo for the Montreal Ruby community.
Finally, I’d like to have a panel discussion on nosql alternatives. A few members are scaling past what MySQL and other databases can handle for storage and analysis. Are you experimenting with MongoDB or CouchDB? Running Hadoop or Map/Reduce jobs? Let’s share war stories.
If you would like to give a short talk – between 5-10 minutes – please get in touch with me (chebuctonian AT gmail).
July: summer's last Montreal.rb
First, a note of thanks to James for his tenure as Montreal.rb organizer. We owe a lot to him trying new formats, as well as finding great speakers!
Mark your calendars: the next Montreal.rb is Tuesday, July 21st. Please RSVP.
Alexis Sellier will discuss less, his framework for creating leaner CSS.
Loren Segal will discuss installing ruby 1.9.
More short talks are welcome. That’s as short as 1 minute, so if you’ve released or learned of a new project, you have no excuse for not presenting. Contact me at chebuctonian at gmail.
For those who like to plan in advance, September’s Montreal.rb will be on the 15th.
This Month's Montreal.rb is Sure to Kick Ass!
Sadly, this is going to be my last Montreal.rb. I’m leaving Montreal at the end of June to eventually end up in Vancouver. My good friend and colleague Daniel Haran is going to be taking over Montreal.rb.
I’m really excited about this month’s meeting, though. We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up.
Loren Segal is going to be talking about the work he’s been doing with yard, an (awesome) RDoc competitor he wrote.
Brian Cardarella is coming up from Boston to give a talk called “Debugging Out”. In it, Brian will talk about speeding up your debugging time with ruby-debug.
Finally, we’ll have Pat Allan, author of thinking-sphinx and ruby hero, all the way from Melbourne, Australia. He hasn’t decided what he’s going to talk about yet. But, you can be sure it’ll be aewsome.
Please RSVP if you’re coming.
This Month's Montreal.rb – Tuesday, June 16th
Last month’s meeting was an awesome success. We had lots of great presentations. So, this month we’re going to continue with that format and we need speakers.
If you want to give a talk anywhere from 5-40 minutes get in touch with me (jamesgolick at gmail). The short talks were really great last month. So, don’t be worried about giving too short a talk.
June’s meeting will be on Tuesday, June 16th at Bloom starting at 6:30pm as usual. Please RSVP here.
Also, just a reminder that we’re having a pub night this Thursday, June 4th at McKibbins on Bishop. More info here.
Montreal.rb Pub Night – June 4th
After May’s Montreal.rb, I started thinking about how much I enjoy drinks after the presentations. That’s usually my favourite part of the whole thing.
So, next week, we’re going to have the first dedicated Montreal.rb pub night at McKibbins pub on Bishop (not the West Island location). I’m planning to show up around 6:30pm. They have great veggie burgers. So, I’ll probably eat dinner there.
Tonight's Montreal.rb – Git, Hippos, and more
Tonight’s Montreal.rb is sure to be a good one.
We’ve got Mat Martin of Smart Hippo talking about “Working with git”. Mat’s going to show us how to take better advantage of git’s (awesome) power.
Then, we have Martin Aumont (not from Smart Hippo) talking about Enumerable#every, Symbol#to_proc’s hot cousin.
We’ve also got Martin Carel, also of Smart Hippo, speaking about git log. His summary: “Owning a project’s git history with “git log” and friends. Live demo lightning talk.”
Finally, Sean Braithwaite, also from Smart Hippo (maybe they’re carpooling or something?), is going to be talking about DataMapper. I’m really excited about this one, because DataMapper is awesome. Here’s Sean’s description of the talk:
Datamapper is an ruby (MRI, YARV, JRuby) Object Relational Mapper
(ORM) comparable to Sequel or ActiveRecord. Unlike it’s comparables,
datamapper is becoming increasingly data store agnostic. Not only can
it be used to avoid writing sql, but is aiming to define a general
language for object storage. This talk aims to present the recent
developments in dm-core/next branch and what these changes have to
offer developers working with multiple non relational data stores.
May's Montreal.rb – New Format
This month’s Montreal.rb will be May 19th, 2009 at 6:30pm at Bloom. Please RSVP at upcoming.
At last month’s meeting, a lot of people told me that they’d be more inclined to speak if they could give a shorter talk. So, this month, we’re going to try short talks.
If you’re interested in giving a talk of between one and fifteen minutes, please get in touch with me (jamesgolick at google’s webmail app). We’re open to anything. So, don’t be shy!
Call for Speakers
This month’s Montreal.rb will be held April 21st, at Bloom (481 Avenue Viger West, Suite 202 ). Upcoming isn’t working for me. So, I guess there’s no RSVP’ing this month.
Our first speaker this month will be Chris Scott. Here’s the abstract:
As an application grows, one sometimes finds their server-side communication becoming distributed throughout the client code, making it difficult to maintain fine-grained control over who gets to see which stuff and execute what upon it. Ext.Direct is a technology which allows you to marshal your Ext communication layer into a discrete, server-side-agnostic, well-engineered package.
We’re looking for at least one more speaker for this month. So, please, if you’re interested in giving a talk, however short, get in touch with me (james at giraffesoft ca).