WHEN: Tuesday January 19th @ 18:30
WHERE: CSC-249 Computing Science Centre, University of Alberta (map)

We had lots of new members out tonight, many of whom had come to hear or discuss a specific talk. Great to see so many people come out!

5-minute Ruby News

Next up, we’ve got a five minute recap of the big Ruby news from the past month. We focus on the big picture and only cover the big news stories. If you want to get regular news between meetups you should follow @yegrb on Twitter, and check our list of Ruby resources.

• GIS and GeoRails tutorial - Daniel Azuma has been presenting an 8-part tutorial on doing georails.
• RubyHeroes - Who has made a difference to your Ruby experience?
• foreman gem updates
• formtastic 2.1 beta released
• ruby 1.8.7 DoS vulnerability patch
• @darkhelmetlive is doing a t-shirt order. Let him know if you’re interested.
• @christiannaths is looking for projects his design students can participate in for his project class. Let him know!

Upcoming events

• Jan 18 - DemoCamp Edmonton
• Jan 25 - TedX Talk @Lunch on Re-thinking Open Source Culture
• Jan 27 - Startup Hackathon and Global Gamejam (Early bird until end of Jan. 19th)
• Apr 2-3 - JSConf US 2012 (Early bird tickets on sale January 18th, 2012 at 3:00PM Eastern Time, will sell out)
• Apr 23-25 - RailsConf 2012 (Registration now open)

Job announcements

There’s nothing better than landing a sweet Ruby job. Every month we share the latest Ruby and related job announcements with our members. If you’re hiring Rubyists let us know!

• Yardstick Software - seeking full-time Rails developer
• Lift - seeking Rails developers for full-time, part-time, contract
• Redman Technologies - seeking senior web developer

Lightning talks

After a short break for pizza, courtesy or Yardstick Software (thanks Don!), we moved on to the main part of each meetup, the lighting talks. We aim to have 2-3 of these. Each talk lasts 10-minutes with 5-minutes for questions afterwards.

• Nathan Bertram - Rails 3.1 asset pipeline
• Mark Bennett - JavaScript debugging in the trenches
• Sean Ouimet - The Mechanical Turk

Demo

Each month we challenge a local developer or company working with Ruby to demonstrate their project. The goal of this segment to to share the real applications being developed with Ruby in Edmonton. The project can be open or closed source, and companies are encouraged to demonstrate their products.

• Brendan Taylor - API client for Inkdit

Talk ideas

What talks would you like to see at our next meetup?

Drinks

The best part of the night for many of our members is after the talks are done, when we head to RATT (map) for food and drinks. This month was no exception and Inkdit kindly supplied a round for the table. Thanks!