15th July – MacRuby with Caius Durling

This month Caius Durling will be talking about MacRuby.

There is sponsorship from Brightbox this month so there will be free pizza in Odder over the road from the venue after the talks. There will be no poetry.

17th June – All things Mongo with Adam Holt

This month Adam Holt will be talking about all things Mongo.

There is sponsorship from On The Beach this month so there will be free pizza in Odder over the road from the venue after the talks.

20th May – oAuth and xAuth with Asa Calow

This month Asa Calow will be talking about oAuth and xAuth.

There is sponsorship from Super Shiny Robot this month so there will be free pizza in Odder over the road from the venue after the talks.

15th April

We couldn’t get a room for the meeting, so we’re going to head to Common just across the road.

18th March – Social meet

A social meeting this month, there should be a lot to talk about with the imminent release of Rails 3.

18th February – Hanging out at the MadLab

This month we are in MabLab in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, no talks planned but we may abuse the projector.

21st January – UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel

This month John Leach of Brightbox will be talking on UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel.

“Those who don’t understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.”

We in the Ruby Community seem to have a habit of re-inventing things. Sometimes this is for good reason, but in some cases we don’t know we’re even doing it! We’re wasting valuable time that could be spent learning Erlang!

UNIX-like operating systems have been around for decades and lots of problems have come and gone in that time. I’m going to talk about some of the tools available that can be used to solve common Ruby and Rails deployment and development problems.

Brightbox will also be sponsoring the event so there will be pizzas available after the meeting in Odder across the road from the meeting.

10th December – Tokyo Cabinet and Couch DB

This month we have two talks on database alternatives, Tokyo Cabinet (by Mihai Anca) and CouchDB (by Ben Aldred).

Due to the proximity of Christmas the meeting will be on Thursday December 10th, a week earlier than usual.

19th November – Code Kwoon

This month Ashley Moran will leading a Coding Kwoon!

The Coding Kwoon is a place to practice software design. The training tool will be RSpec and the output of the exercise will be Ruby code. No experience of either is required to take part.