The Hartford Ruby Group is meeting this Monday, 11/24, from 6 - 8 PM.

Flinn Mueller will be talking about rspec, and we’ll hopefully hear stories from the Voices that Matter attendees.

We’ll raffle off The Professional Ruby Collection: Mongrel, Rails Plugins, Rails Routing, Refactoring to REST, and Rubyisms CD.

GeeZeo offices
750 Main St, Hartford
Suite 1314
(next to the CVS)

Thanks to GeeZeo for hosting us, to Sun for feeding us, and to Addison Wesley for giving us books to raffle off. Hope to see you there!

The Hartford Ruby Group is meeting this Monday, 10/27, at 6:00 PM.

We’ll be tackling a Ruby Quiz problem, pairing up newcomers with veterans, and we’ll be raffling off a copy of Design Patterns in Ruby, by Russ Olsen.

GeeZeo offices
750 Main St, Hartford
Suite 1314
(next to the CVS)

Thanks to GeeZeo for hosting us, to Sun for feeding us, and to Addison Wesley for giving us books to raffle off.  Hope to see you there!

If you’re in the area, feel free to drop in:

The Hartford Ruby Brigade’s September meeting is tonight, from 6 to 8 PM, at GeeZeo’s offices on 750 Main St, Suite 1314, in Hartford (next to the CVS).

The big news is Addison Wesley has a ticket for the Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference this November, and we’ll raffle it off. It looks like a sweet conference, go take a look. You have to be there to win, so if you’ve been waiting for the right time to make an appearance, this is it. And since only one of us can win the ticket, we’ll also raffle off a great Ruby book, Hal Fulton’s The Ruby Way. A big thanks to Addison Wesley!

Aaron will give his long-promised IronRuby talk, and I’ll show a mini-project of mine that generates MSWord .docs from Textile, with RedCloth. It’s flashy, I promise.

Remember, if you have a topic you’d like to talk about, or one you’d like to hear about, or even if you just have an idea for what to do for the evening, don’t be shy, speak up! The group is what we make it, and it belongs to all of us.

As always, we’ll have free pizza and soda, courtesy of Sun Microsystems.

Hope to see you there!

This past Monday night, Gregory Brown, ruby mendicant, stopped by for the Hartford Ruby Brigade’s July meeting.

We started off with a Ruby Robots show-down, but since everyone still had work to do on their bots, we decided it’ll be a regular event.  Right now, my lame-ass Edger bot is, I believe, the champion, but I expect that to change next month.  Greg’s bot, the terminator, won the Matrix-version of the competition, where cheating hacking the system is allowed.  You can watch Greg talk about cheating Ruby Robots, how he hacked the enemy bots, and defended his bot against similar attacks.  It’s relevant to any ruby discussion, because he’s using basic ruby techniques, and ruby’s open and dynamic nature, to do it all.

Greg’s talks on Ruport, Prawn, and the finer points of designing a useful API in ruby were really good, too.  With luck, they’ll be up on Vimeo soon.