RubyJax

The next meeting of RubyJax will be here soon, and in the spirit of the holiday season (Valentine’s), we would like to show some love. At the next meeting we will be doing pair programming. The idea is that we have some really experienced ruby/rails developers in the group and some really new ruby/rails developers. In an effort to lift the community we would like to pair a newer person (to ruby) with a more experienced person. The newer person can choose any topic they want and we will match them up with someone who knows that topic and they can spend an hour and a half together hacking and talking.

Here are a few ideas:

• Intro to Ruby
• Ruby Meta-programming
• Into to Rails
• Rails testing intro
• Rails testing with rspec
• Rails testing non-rspec
• Unit testing Ruby (w/o rails)
• Comparing Ruby to your language of choice
• Merb
• RJS
• Rails 2.0
• Hack on a your project (micro-volunteering anyone?)
• Anything you want

To help us coordinate a bit, please send me an email (steve {at} lesseverything [dot] com) and tell me:

• Which side of the pair you’d like to be on.
• What you would like to hack on.
• Do you have a preferred partner (only one luckey soul will get to pair with l4rk).
• If you will be bringing your laptop and what OS it is running.

Here is a list of experienced ruby/rails people to choose from (if you name is not listed here, please let me know and I will add it):

• Desi
• Lark
• Obie
• Steve