PDX Ruby Brigade in 2006

Posted by Jeremy Voorhis Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:20:00 GMT

Four of my colleagues at PLANET ARGON and I just returned from the first PDX.rb meeting of 2006. The meeting consisted of a series of lightning talks, all of which came off (or so I’m told) very well. We had the opportunity to hear about

  • Bumpr – a Rails application by Darrin Eden that uses Google maps to plot trips you record with your GPS device
  • Multi – A library by Topher Cyll that provides pattern matching and multiple dispatch to Ruby, a la Haskell
  • Globalize – I gave a presentation about how to use Globalize to internationalize your Rails applications
  • Phil Thomson presented Ruby metaprogramming tips and tricks, and I got an irb session in my email via the PDX.rb mailing list shortly afterwards :)

Not bad for the first meeting of the year. Keep reading for more about PDX.rb and some impending news about PLANET ARGON in 2006!

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  1. Metin Amiroff said about 4 hours later:

    Could you please put that Globalize presentation online somewhere? The link you’ve linked to does not work :(

    Thanks!

  2. JV said about 11 hours later:

    Hm… the slides still worked for me. By the way, they are hosted on S5 Presents – a presentation application written by fellow Portlander, Lucas Carlson. He runs an interesting tech blog.

  3. Metin Amiroff said about 12 hours later:

    Ah, I got them after some trial and error now :)

    Thanks for pointing out, and great presentation. Would be nice to see a good HOWTO about Globalize!

  4. JV said about 13 hours later:

    Yup! We need better docs. Globalize is still young and fairly immature, but it is definitely fit to be used in Rails applications to provide i18n support. Hopefully the Globalize devs and some intrepid users can get some docs up on the wiki soon.

    For now, the api docs are available at http://globalize-docs.diluvia.net/.

  5. Ryan said about 15 hours later:

    Where can I find Phil Thomson’s slides on metaprogramming tips and tricks?

    Thanks

  6. JV said about 16 hours later:

    Phil Thomson had no slides, but he left behind this irb session. Scroll slowly as you listen to the podcast for the ultimate experience :)

    Topher Cyll also posted slides for his presentation about pattern matching/multiple dispatch/destructuring.

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