November Phoenix Rails Recap

November 21st, 2007

Last night’s Phoenix Rails meeting was a nice kick off to the holiday. We covered a number of topics and saw some new faces. I am impressed that we have had visitors from United Arab Emirates and Houston, Texas in the last few months. Since we covered so much, I figured I would do a quick recap with links as many of the topics were new to many attendees.

Jade Meskill started the meeting by recapping some items encountered at RubyConf.

Ruby 1.9 : Matz Town Hall
JRuby : Ruby for the JVM
Rubinius : Rubinius 1.0
Rspec : Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec
Adhearsion : Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Adhearsion
MetaSploit : Sploitin’ with Ruby (Point, Click, Root)

This conversation brought up Telegraphy as a counterpart to Adhearsion. There was also brief discussion on Asterisk vs Callweaver.

Chris Matthieu followed up with some local ruby news items.

Wruby was featured in Ruby Inside.
Local rubyist David Koontz from Rising Tide went the Phoenix Java User Group to present on JRuby. (You can catch it here)

I apologized I wasn’t able to get some folks doing work with facebook to show up and talk about what they were doing, but started a small discussion on OpenSocial and talked about the plugin to expose rails resources as an open social api.

I did a quick visual demo of home automation using Indigo RubyOSA and Rails. I will try to post on this later. Pertinent information is where to get home automation gear… Smart Home and Mac Home Store are both sources cited.

James Britt wrapped up the conversation by discussing moving away from Trac and on to Red Mine.

Please sign up for the Phoenix Rails Group and the Phoenix Ruby User Group at Working with Rails.

Thanks to all that attended.