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Hi everyone,

Thanks for coming to the November meetup.

Below you'll find the links to the slides and speakers.

We're looking for speakers for the January, February, March and April meetups. If you have something you'd like to talk about, please reach out by email or fill in the Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal form.

1. What happened?

1.1 [Beginner/Intermediate Talk] Mike And James talk: What We Learned Building a Shopify App

Links:

Slides: here

Their Shopify App: rewindit.io

1.2 [Advanced Talk] Craig Lehmann and Robert Young gave a talk titled "It's Dangerous To GC Alone, Take This!"

No slides just yet, sorry. Their slides (and possibly a video) will be made available after their Ruby Kagai talk this month. Stay tuned to this blog for updates.

We don't have any links to connect with Craig or Robert, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with them.

1.3 [Beginner/Intermediate Talk] Zhifu Ge gave us a talk titled "How to be weird - The Idiomatic Ruby Ways"

Links:

Slides: here

We don't have any links to connect with Zhifu, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with him.

1.4 We ran of out time and had to postpone Nick Nickolov's talk titled "Boolean With Three Possible Values" :(

Nick has graciously offered to give his talk in a future month. His talk tentatively scheduled for the January meetup.

Our humblest apologies again to Nick, and thank you for agreeing to give your talk in a future month!

2. What's Up for January?

So far, we have lined up for the January 2016 meetup:

2.1 [Tentative][Beginner Talk] Lightning Talk: Nick Nikolov will be giving a talk titled "Booleans... with three possible values?"

Description: When using RoR with MySQL the boolean fields may end up having a third, unexpected value. This presentation will explain why and how this might happen and what to do if you wish to correct it.

2.2 [Tentative][Intermediate Talk] Adam Waselnuk Will Show How To Create A Rails Style View Helper With Shifting Arguments via some Ruby Language Features

Adam will be walking through a couple Ruby language features that enable you to easily create a Rails style view helper with shifting arguments.

The talk will also touch on why such a fluid method signature is a good way to go in a Rails app.

3. Call for 1-2 more Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced Talks

We're looking for one to two more Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced talks for January.

We're also looking for talks for February, March and April as well.

Feel free to email back if you'd like to give a talk, or fill in this Talk Proposal Form.

4. Plan on coming? RSVP

You can RSVP for the meetup here:

5. Thanks all!

Hope to see you at the next Ruby meetup, or at Web Project Night!

Thanks for coming out to the October meetup.

Below you'll find the links to the slides and speakers, and also a preview of the scheduled talks for this month.

1. What happened?

1.1 Elaine Cooper's gave a Lightning Talk titled "5 Quick Switches … Improve Your Life One Easy Change At a Time."

Her slides are forthcoming. Check back here for an update later.

Links:

Connect with Elaine on Facebook: here

You can get her recipes by subscribing to her newsletter.

Here's a pic she shared from the evening. :)

1.2 Craig Lehmann and Robert Young gave a Lightning Talk on the Ruby VM titled "Ruby Under The Hood"

Links:

Slides: here

We don't have any links to connect with Craig or Robert, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with them.

1.3 Zhifu Ge gave us a talk titled "TDD For Coding Practices" and did a live TDD session, working through a practice problem from Codility

Links:

Slides: here

We don't have any links to connect with Zhifu, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with him.

1.4 Also, in case you missed it back in June… Ahmed Omran's talk on Working with Legacy Rails Apps

Ahmed Omran @this_ahmed gave a talk at the June meetup on Working With Legacy Rails Apps. You should check out the slides below.

Links:

Slides: here

Connect with Ahmed: @this_ahmed

Ahmed's Blog: aomran.com

Sorry for not getting this sent out sooner.

2. What's Up for November?

So far, we have two talks lined up for this month's meetup:

2.1 Lightning Talk: Nick Nikolov will be giving a talk titled "Booleans... with three possible values?"

Description: When using RoR with MySQL the boolean fields may end up having a third, unexpected value. This presentation will explain why and how this might happen and what to do if you wish to correct it.

2.2 Zhifu Ge will be giving us a talk about… something. ;)

3. Call for an Intermediate/Advanced Talk

We're looking for an Intermediate or Advanced talk for November.

Feel free to email back if you'd like to give a talk, or fill in this Talk Proposal Form.

4. Plan on coming? RSVP

You can RSVP for the meetup here:

--> http://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/224523705/

5. Thanks all!

Hope to see you at the next Ruby meetup, or at Web Project Night!

Thanks everyone for coming out to last week's Ruby Tuesday, and yesterday's Web Project Night!

And an extra big thank you also to our great speakers: Vincent Stark, and Eric Mulligan.

We're currently looking for speakers for the May 26th meetup. Please let us know here if you'd be interested in giving a talk in May, or in a future month.

The links for the slides are below.

1. Vincent Stark on Meteor: Using Full-Stack Reactivity To Create Modern Apps

Links:

Connect with Vincent on Twitter: @vince_stark

Vincent's Blog: vstark.net

Presentation Slides: here

Sketch App (built in Meteor): here

Meteor website: here

2. Eric Mulligan on The Skinny on Slim

Links:

Connect with Eric on Twitter: @EricPMulligan

Talk Slides: here

Slim Links: Website | Github

3. What's up next?

May 26th - Ruby Tuesday

We currently don't have any talks scheduled this month yet, but you can keep track of updates and RSVP on the meetup page.

Up for giving a talk sometime?

We're looking for speakers for next month, as well as for June-July (and onward). If you have something you'd like to talk about, please do let us know via this short form.

June 2nd - Web Project Night

Web Project Night is coming up early next month, and is a great time to work on your side project.

It's open to anyone working on the web (Web Developers, Web Designers, etc.), so feel free to invite your friends!

And of course, it's totally beginner friendly -- no judgements here, and we're happy to help if you have questions!

No side-project?

If you don't have a side-project at the moment, consider starting one. Working on these projects can be a great way to learn new things, and gives you a place let your creativity and imagination run wild.

Don't have an idea for a project? No worries. Here's one technique to help you come up with an idea:

Pick a technology you'd like to learn (Ruby, Python, Javascript, Ember, Angular, Meteor, etc.).

Make a list of your favourite apps (mobile or web-based).

Think about how you would change/improve each of them, or what you would do differently.

Pick the app from your list that you feel most passionate about.

(Optional but recommended: Plan your project out a bit. Consider at least making some sketches or mockups. This can help drastically with keeping things clean, and will guide to to create what you envisioned for your app.)

Build it! :)

So, if you're favourite app is Gmail, try building a version in whatever_technology_you_like.

Yes, you could end up with a clone with this technique, but if your goal is learning, you'll likely learn a lot along the way.

Otherwise, try brainstorming over the next few days when you have some free cycles and see what you come up with.

Everyone's encouraged to attend! :)

You can learn more and RSVP here.

Thanks again!

Thanks again for coming out! We hope to see you at the next Ruby Tuesday and Web Project Night!

Thanks,

Thanks everyone for coming out to last month's Ruby Tuesday.

And a super big thank you to our great speakers: Georgiy Shibaev, Anton Sakovich, and Thu Trang Pham!

The links are below.

1. Georgiy Shibaev on the Neo4J Graph Database

Links:

Georgiy's Github: github.com/RangerMauve

Presentation source code, contains a ruby example that should get you started: here

Live presentation link: here

Neo4j website: here

Playing with Neo4j in your browser: here

Neo4j docs: here

Neography gem: here

2. Anton Sakovich on Monkey Patching and the AxlsxStyler Gem

Links:

Connect with Anton on Twitter: @AntonSakovich

Anton's Github: github.com/sakovias

Slides: here

AxlsxStyler Gem: here

3. Thu Trang Pham on Improving ActiveRecord Performance

Links:

Thu's Github: github.com/TrangPham

Slides: here

What's up next?

March 24th - Ruby Tuesday

This month, Adam Saunders be giving us a talk on using Open Source Licenses, and how to make sure that you, as a developer, remain in compliance with those licenses.

Following that, Ethan Aubuchon will be giving a talk on using UUIDs with a using the active_uuid gem) with a Distributed Database.

See the details and RSVP here.

Up for giving a talk?

We're looking for speakers for next month, as well as for March-July (and onward). If you have something you'd like to talk about, please do let us know via this short form.

<Date to be announced> - Web Project Night

Web Project Night is coming up in early April. The date is still to be determined, based on venue availability.

Web Project Night is a great time to work on your side project. It's open to anyone working on the web (Web Developers, Web Designers, etc.), so please feel free to invite your friends!

Of course, it's totally beginner friendly. No judgements here, and we're happy to help if you have questions!

You can learn more and RSVP here.

Thanks again!

Thanks again for coming out! We hope to see you at the next Ruby Tuesday and Web Project Night!

Thanks,

Thanks to all who came out to Ruby Tuesday last week!

And a SUPER big thank you to our speakers, Willem van Bergen and Xander Miller, for their excellent talks!

The links to the presentations / repos are below.

Willem van Bergen on Overcoming a Potential MySQL Data Loss Problem

The Talk

Willem talked about some data loss problems that can occur with MySQL when it's not running in strict mode, how it could affect a Rails app, and what they did at Shopify to overcome these problems.

Links

Connect with Willem: (Twitter | Homepage)

Slides: here

Xander Miller on Rails Associations Part 2

Abstract

Learning Rails Associations building Timber: the dating app for lumberjacks and lumberjanes...

Episode 2: Two Many To Many

This time we are building Timber with the has_and_belongs_to_many and has_many_through associations, and comparing and contrasting the two strategies.

Links

Connect with Xander: (Twitter | Blog)

Slides: here

Github Repo: here

What's up next?

Note: No Ruby Tuesday in December

Since the next Ruby Tuesday would be on December 23rd, the day before Christmas Eve, which essentially guarantees that people wouldn't show up, we're going to skip this month. ;)

January 27th - Ruby Tuesday

We currently have one Lightning Talk scheduled for next month's Ruby Tuesday, and we're looking for a Full-Length talk, and another Lightning Talk.

Cory Darby will be giving us a Lightning Talk on his experiences contributing to Open Source over the past few months.

See the details and RSVP here.

Up for giving a talk?

If you have something you'd like to talk about, please do let us know via this short form.

January 6th - Web Project Night

The next Web Project Night is on January 6th, at 6:30pm.

Start the new year off by making some progress on your project! :)

It's open to anyone working on the web (Web Developers, We Designers, etc.), so please feel free to invite your friends!

Of course, it's totally beginner friendly. No judgements here, and we're happy to help if you have questions!

You can learn more and RSVP here.

Thanks again, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks again for coming out! We hope to see you at the next Ruby Tuesday and Web Project Night!

Until then, we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, and an exceptionally Happy New Year!

Thanks,

Hey everyone,

1. Meetup Tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is Ruby Tuesday. We'll be meeting at 6:30pm in the Engineering Students Lounge at Ottawa University.

You can learn more and RSVP here

2. Up for giving a talk on Tuesday / later?

We're still looking for another talk to fill in the evening. If you have something you'd like to talk about, please feel free to hit reply or let us know through this Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal Form.

3. Thanks! :)

Thanks all, we hope to see you there!

Thanks to all who came out to Ruby Tuesday on October 28th, it was a good time!

And a big BIG thank you to our speakers: Jean Claude Batista, Uri Gorelik, and Xander Miller for their excellent talks!

The links to the presentations / repos are below.

Jean Claude Batista on using Ruby on Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Connecting things to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi and Ruby

In this talk, I'll walk you through building a simple Internet Appliance with the Raspberry Pi using Ruby, Sinatra and the PiPiper gem. The focus will be on using the Raspberry Pi GPIO ports and would be beginner friendly.

Links

Connect with Jean-Claude: (Twitter | Homepage)

Slides: here

Source Code: here

Uri Gorelik on the Suds Meetup

The Talk

No abstract for this one, but to sum it up, Uri gave us a talk on HealthWave's Suds gem, which is a handy gem that can be used to import, clean, and store data of various types.

Links

Connect with Uri: (Twitter | Homepage)

Suds Readme and Source: here

Xander Miller on Rails Associations

Abstract

Learning Rails Associations building Timber: the dating app for lumberjacks and lumberjanes...

Episode 1: There is always a belongs_to

In our first iteration of Timber we build the app using the has_many and has_one association with a particular focus on how the belongs_to association relates to the database layer and our migration files.

Links

Connect with Xander: (Twitter | Blog)

Slides: here

Github Repo: here

What's up next?

November 25th - Ruby Tuesday

We currently have two Lightning Talks scheduled for this month's Ruby Tuesday, and we're looking for a Full-Length talk. On the docket so far:

Xander Miller (Twitter | Blog) will going over some more ActiveRecord associations in the second part of his series on building Timber: A dating site for Lumberjacks and Lumberjanes.

Willem van Burgen (Twitter | Homepage) will be talking about data loss problems with MySQL not running in strict mode, how it affects Rails app, and what they did at Shopify to overcome these problems.

See the details and RSVP here.

Of course, we'd love to hear more local people give talks. If you have something you'd like to talk about, please do let us know via this short form.

December 2nd - Web Project Night

The next Web Project Night is on December 2nd, at 6:30pm.

It's open to anyone working on the web, so feel free to invite your friends!

Of course, it's totally beginner friendly.

You can learn more and RSVP here.

Thanks again!

Thanks again for coming out! We hope to see you at the next Ruby Tuesday and Web Project Night!

Thanks,

Hi everyone,

Ruby Tuesday is coming up, next Tuesday in fact (October 28th, 2014).

What's happening, and RSVP

The main talk will be by Jean-Claude Batista, and we've also got a Lightning Talk by Xander Miller.

You can see the agenda, the details on the talks, and RSVP here.

Still room for one more... :)

We're still looking for one more Lighting Talk this month. If you're up for it, please fill in this form to let us know.

We hope to see you all there!

Thanks, The Ottawa Ruby Team