Events

Each month there is an NWRUG event in Manchester. There is usually a talk on a Ruby or Ruby-related topic, followed by a visit to a local pub. Our events are free and open to anyone with an interest in Ruby, regardless of experience level. We want to keep NWRUG as welcoming and inclusive as possible so we ask that all attendies follow our Code of conduct.

Previous events

• Festive Social at Cafe Beermoth

  Thursday 19th December 7:30pm at Café Beermoth

• A Test-Driven Development Workshop

  Thursday 21st November 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• Modernising Ruby Systems with Rage

  Thursday 17th October 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• From Teaching to Coding: How I Changed Careers

  Thursday 19th September 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• Delivering Iterative Features

  Thursday 15th August 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• Taylor’s Guide to Big Rewrites by Andy Croll

  Thursday 18th July 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• RubyConf 2023 - Re-interpreting Data by Murray Steele

  Thursday 20th June 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• What to do when you’ve been hit by a tornado

  Thursday 16th May 6:30pm at Chroma Recruitment

• Extreme Startup

  Thursday 15th February 6:30pm at Offices above Sandbar

• Rails::HTML5 : The Strange and Remarkable 3 Year Journey

  Thursday 16th November 6:30pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• “How regular expressions made my dog less reactive” by Svenja Schäfer

  Thursday 19th October 6:00pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• Gain Insight with The Brick: Unveiling application data

  Thursday 21st September 6:30pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• What does "high priority" mean? The secret to happy queues

  Thursday 17th August 6:30pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• “How regular expressions made my dog less reactive” by Svenja Schäfer

  Thursday 20th July 6:00pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• "How to Program" by Justin Searls

  Thursday 15th June 6:00pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• NWRUG's Return

  Thursday 20th April 6:30pm at IntelliCentrics UK

• The future shape of Ruby

  Thursday 19th August 6:45pm Online

• Self Care When Everything's Terrible

  Thursday 21st January 6:30pm Online

• How to write code-base specific lints for correctness and security using Semgrep

  Thursday 19th November 6:30pm Online

• JWTs: What Rails Developers Need To Know

  Thursday 17th September 6:30pm Online

• Many More Much Smaller Steps

  Thursday 20th August 6:20pm Online

• Conscious Coding Practice: The Three Concrete Steps

  Thursday 18th June 6:30pm Online

• Working Through The Problem: How Developers Can Get Involved With Research

  Thursday 21st May 6:30pm Online

• Social-distancing edition

  Thursday 16th April 6:30pm Online

• Cancelled: March meetup

  Thursday 19th March 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Faster than Lightning talks

  Thursday 20th February 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• January problem solving workshop

  Thursday 16th January 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Holiday Social

  Thursday 19th December 6:30pm at Bundobust

• November problem solving workshop

  Thursday 21st November 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Fixing Performance & Memory problems and Contract Testing with Pact

  Thursday 17th October 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• September – Social Meetup

  Thursday 19th September 6:30pm at Port St. Beer House

• The Why And How Of Upgrading Your Rails App

  Thursday 15th August 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• July - Social Meetup

  Thursday 18th July 6:30pm at Port St. Beer House

• A Test Driven Code Challenge

  Thursday 20th June 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Saving Money and Reducing risk with Immutable EC2 Spot Instances for your Rails Applications

  Thursday 16th May 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• April - Social Meetup

  Thursday 18th April 6:30pm at Kosmonaut

• Get In The C - Ruby's Foreign Function Interface

  Thursday 21st March 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Lightning talks

  Thursday 21st February 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• January Talk Double Header

  Thursday 17th January 6:30pm at On the Beach offices, Aeroworks

• Christmas Social

  Thursday 20th December 7:00pm at 57 Thomas Street

• All In - Reflections on Software Development Through the Eyes of an ex-Poker Player

  Thursday 15th November 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• Automate Your Home with Ruby & Kafka + Cookpad

  Thursday 18th October 6:30pm at Plant NOMA

• How (NOT) To Give A Technical Talk

  Thursday 20th September 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• Flaky Tests and You

  Thursday 16th August 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• Funky Ruby

  Thursday 19th July 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• A Branch in Time

  Thursday 21st June 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• Lightning Talks

  Thursday 17th May 7:00pm at Plant NOMA

• Social Meetup (was lightning talks)

  Thursday 19th April 7:00pm at The Smithfield Tavern

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 15th March 6:30pm at The Smithfield Tavern

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 15th February 6:30pm at The Smithfield Tavern

• New Year Coding Exercise

  Thursday 18th January 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Christmas Meal Social

  Thursday 21st December 6:30pm at The Abel Heywood

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 16th November 6:30pm at The Smithfield Tavern

• Mobopoly: approaches and techniques for harmonious mob programming

  Thursday 19th October 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• ‘Faster than Lightning’ talks

  Thursday 21st September 7:00pm at MadFabLab

• Diving into Rake and its Future in Rails

  Thursday 17th August 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Gilded Rose Kata

  Thursday 20th July 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• June Triple Bill: Cultivating Code; Supporting the Newcomers; Intro to Arel

  Thursday 15th June 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• 99 Bottles of Object Oriented Programming; An Interactive Session

  Thursday 18th May 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Double bill: Hosting for side projects and Testing with cake

  Thursday 20th April 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• March Lightning talks

  Thursday 16th March 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• REST-Assured, a journey into API hacking

  Thursday 16th February 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• January Code Exercise

  Thursday 19th January 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• 20 Things I Wish I Knew about being a Developer 20 Years Ago

  Thursday 17th November 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Are Batteries Included?

  Thursday 20th October 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• 10th Anniversary Pub Quiz

  Thursday 15th September 6:30pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Rails Girls Drop-in Session and What's New in Rails 5

  Thursday 18th August 5:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Life as a Junior Developer and Everything You Wanted to Know About Coupling But Were Afraid to Ask

  Thursday 21st July 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Word Chains Kata

  Thursday 16th June 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Performance, Benchmarks and When Servers go Wrong.

  Thursday 19th May 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• How to Play at Being a Programmer

  Thursday 21st April 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Experiences of a Beginner Programmer

  Thursday 17th March 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Test Drive your own Test Framework

  Thursday 18th February 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• An intro to Elixir

  Thursday 21st January 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Christmas Social

  Thursday 17th December 6:30pm at The Smithfield Tavern

• Upgrading Your Technical Skills

  Wednesday 11th November 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Ruby Puzzle Hack Night

  Thursday 15th October 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meet

  Thursday 17th September 6:00pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Bug Free Code

  Thursday 20th August 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• An Intro to Docker

  Thursday 16th July 6:30am at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 18th June 6:00pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Concurrent Ruby

  Thursday 21st May 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• What Does This Button Do?

  Thursday 16th April 6:30pm at Federation House

• The Ruby Code Challenge

  Thursday 19th March 6:30pm at Federation House

• Making Music with Ruby

  Thursday 19th February 7:00pm at Federation House

• Social: new() Years Resolutions

  Thursday 15th January 6:30pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Xmas Jumper Party

  Thursday 18th December 7:00pm at 57 Thomas Street

• The Circuit Breaker Pattern

  Sunday 16th November 7:00pm at Federation House

• Social Meet

  Thursday 18th September 7:00pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Social Meet

  Thursday 21st August 6:30am at 57 Thomas Street

• A Practical Introduction to Docker

  Thursday 17th July 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• How Basecamp Handled a DDoS Attack

  Thursday 19th June 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meet

  Thursday 15th May 6:30pm at 57 Thomas Street

• Easter.js

  Thursday 17th April 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• NWRUG Social

  Thursday 20th March 7:00pm at Common

• Lightning Talks

  Thursday 20th February 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 19th December 7:00pm at Common

• Message Queues for Everyone

  Thursday 21st November 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Improve your Ruby Code with Dependency Injection

  Thursday 17th October 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• A Very Fast Ruby on the JVM

  Thursday 19th September 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• TDD and ‘Self’-Shunt

  Thursday 18th July 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 20th June 6:00pm at Kosmonaut

• Nils - what are your Options?

  Thursday 16th May 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• How to Make Your Objects Selfish, Ignorant, and Lazy in One Easy Step

  Thursday 18th April 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Bootstrapping for Developers

  Thursday 21st March 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Parsing for Fun & Profit

  Thursday 21st February 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The Hacker Edition

  Thursday 17th January 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Christmas Social

  Thursday 20th December 6:00pm at Common

• A RubyConf 2012 Review with Will Jessop

  Thursday 15th November 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Rails 4 Streaming

  Thursday 18th October 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Test Driven Puppet Development by Matt House

  Thursday 20th September 6:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• An intro to Varnish sponsored by Creative Lynx

  Thursday 16th August 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Crash Course in Scala

  Thursday 19th July 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Celluloid with Adam Holt

  Thursday 21st June 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The Python Experiment

  Thursday 17th May 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The Lightning Round

  Thursday 19th April 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Client-side MVC: An Introduction to Backbone.js

  Thursday 15th March 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Speedy TDD with Rails (the wrong way)

  Thursday 16th February 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The New Year Lightning Round

  Thursday 19th January 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The NWRUG Christmas Special

  Thursday 15th December 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The Lightning Round

  Thursday 17th November 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• The MagRails Social

  Thursday 13th October 7:30pm at NoHo

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 15th September 6:00pm at The Paramount

• The Training Edition

  Thursday 18th August 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• NWRUG Curry Night

  Thursday 21st July 6:30pm at The Paramount

• Meet the EngineYard Crew

  Tuesday 28th June 6:00pm at Port St. Beer House

• Introduction To CoffeeScript

  Thursday 16th June 6:30pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Social Meet

  Thursday 19th May 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Making Money From Your Side-Project

  Thursday 21st April 7:00pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Social Meetup

  Thursday 17th March 6:00pm at The Paramount

• Introduction to Pure Data

  Thursday 17th February 6:00pm at The BBC

• Clojure

  Thursday 20th January 6:00pm at The BBC

• NWRUG Curry Night

  Thursday 18th November 6:30pm at The Paramount

• NWRUG Curry Night

  Monday 18th October 6:30pm at The Paramount

• Ruby, Cloud Infrastructure & Heroku

  Thursday 16th September 6:00pm at The BBC

• NWRUG Curry Night

  Thursday 19th August 6:30pm at The Paramount

• MacRuby with Caius Durling

  Thursday 15th July 6:30pm at The BBC

• All things Mongo with Adam Holt

  Thursday 17th June 6:30pm at The BBC

• oAuth and xAuth with Asa Calow

  Thursday 20th May 6:30pm at The BBC

• Social Meet

  Thursday 15th April 7:00pm at Common

• Social Meet

  Thursday 18th March 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Hanging out at the MadLab

  Thursday 18th February 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• UNIX: Rediscovering the Wheel

  Thursday 21st January 6:30pm at The BBC

• Tokyo Cabinet and Couch DB

  Thursday 10th December 6:30pm at The BBC

• Code Kwoon

  Thursday 19th November 6:30pm at The BBC

• Uses and Abuses of Mocks and Stubs

  Thursday 15th October 6:30pm at The BBC

• Smooth web apps with Varnish

  Thursday 17th September 6:30pm at The BBC

• Capistrano: from noob to winner

  Thursday 20th August 6:30pm at The BBC

• Source Control Stand-off

  Thursday 16th July 6:00pm at The BBC

• Code Surgery and an Introduction to Zsh

  Thursday 18th June 6:00pm at The BBC

• Going for a Ruby

  Thursday 21st May 7:00pm at The Paramount

• BDD, You Know You Should be Doing it

  Thursday 16th April 6:00pm at The BBC

• Search in Your Rails App

  Thursday 19th March 6:30pm at The BBC

• Nanite (and an Introduction to Cloud Computing)

  Thursday 19th February 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Pub Meet: new() Years Resolutions

  Thursday 15th January 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Pub Meet: Continuing the Success

  Thursday 18th December 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Pub Meet: RubyConf Aftermath

  Thursday 20th November 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Synthesis, Connecting the Dots

  Tuesday 24th June 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Just Geeks in the Pub (again)

  Thursday 22nd May 7:00pm at The Paramount

• Just Geeks in the Pub

  Thursday 17th April 7:00pm at The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• The Life of a Rails Freelancer

  Thursday 20th March 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Building Brightbox

  Tuesday 29th January 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• The Effects of Gravity on Software

  Tuesday 20th November 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• The NWRUG Way

  Tuesday 26th June 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Unobtrusive JavaScript and Mystery Ruby

  Tuesday 22nd May 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• REST & Women in Engineering

  Wednesday 21st February 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• What's New in Rails 1.2

  Wednesday 17th January 6:30pm at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)

• Ruby and Rails Mini Conference

  Saturday 30th September 9:30am at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)