At this month’s meetup we’re talking e-commerce and payments. We want to help you get paid quickly and easily on your next project.

View the video from our meetup on YouTube. Sorry for the audio issues, we’ll have a proper microphone next year.

News

• Next month we’re having our year-end BBQ with food and prizes. Start brushing up on your Ruby now.
• We had our first multi-meetup hackup with ExchangeJS, EdmontonPy, and YEGdroid. It went great! They’ll be on the second wednesday each month going forward.
• Google I/O announced their Compute Engine is available to all
• animate.css is CSS animations for developers

Events

• May 28th - UX Edmonton Meetup
• June 2nd - CodeRetreat - Come practice the craft or programming and meet other passionate developers.
• June 4th - YegDroid / GDG - Get your Android on!
• June 6th - Exchange.js - Talk JavaScript
• June 10th - Edmonton Python User Group - Yes, there are people using Python
• June 12th - Monthly Hack Night - Come build a project with other developers
• June 18th - YEGrb Wrap-up BBQ - It’s the end of another year, and time to wrap up with food and prizes!

Presentations

• @RyanOnRails demonstrates taking payments simply with Stripe (slides)

  • https://spreedly.com
  • https://stripe.com/blog/jquery-payment
  • https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter

• @MarkBennett is leading a discussion on shopping carts and implementing e-commerce

News

• Minitest 4.7.0
• Sinatra 1.4.2
• Using GDB to debug running Ruby processes
• Ruby 2.0’s Module#prepend
• VIDEO: Building a library, the parts no one talks about
• Decaf - Ruby in your browser!

Events

• A new Python group is in the works, details to follow next month

Jobs

• Jason

Talks

• Forrest Ziesler (fzeisler) - ???
• Daniel Huckstep (@darkhelmetlive) - Mountain West Ruby Recap
• Mark Bennett (@markbennett) - A Promised Talk

News & Notes

• Ruby 2.0 is released! (more, more and more!)
• Start thinking about signing your gems
• Sinatra 1.3.6/1.4.0 released (dev mode now only serves localhost, new servers support, more…)
• Rails 3.2.13, 3.1.12, and 2.3.18 released (more security updates)
• The Inadequate Guide to Rails Security
• Phusion Passenger 4.0 RC 2 - now with more jRuby and Rubinius

Events

• March 23rd (all day) - Legacy CodeRetreat
• April 9 (18:45) - DemoCamp 21

Talks

• Daniel Huckstep - The Ruby Stdlib (a repeat performance)
• Abram Hindle - Ruby state pattern (video)

WHAT: Monthly Ruby Meetup
WHEN: Tuesday Feb 19th at 18:30
WHERE: CSC 2-49, Computing Science Centre, UofA (map)

This month we’re talking PDF’s, Promises and eating pizza. The feature event is going to be a deep-dive into the stdlib by @darkhelmetlive.

As always, we’ll head next door to RATT for drinks afterwards.

You can RSVP and catch the livesteam if you can’t be there in person via the YEGrb community on Google+. Join if you’re not already a member and follow us on Twitter at @yegrb for the latest news.

Notes

News

• Ruby 2 - It’s coming next week

Upcoming Events

• Feb 23-24 - Startup Edmonton Hackathon - Build an awesome app, and start something great. Highly recommended if you’ve never gone before.

Speakers

• PDFs and Prawn - with Forrest
• The STDLIB - with Dan

News

• Rails (2,3,4) is impacted by a vulnerability in the param parsing. Update now!

Jobs

• Yardstick Software is looking for a contractor (it’s new so no job posting yet)
• Jobber is looking for a front-end developer (You can even donate the finders fee to the meetup)

Speakers

• fnichol
• darkhelmetlive
• stormbrew