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<h2><a href="2010/11/24/melbourne-ruby-november.html">Melbourne Ruby November</a></h2>
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<p>Tomorrow’s Melbourne Ruby meet is almost here. We will once again be enjoying the hospitality of Thoughtworks: Level 15, <span class="caps">IOOF</span> Building, corner of Elizabeth and Collins Street, Melbourne (ie: the city).</p>
We’ve got three speakers lined up thus far – and still space for another one if someone’s keen:
<ul>
<li>Ben Hoskings (I’ve forgotten the topic)</li>
<li>Sean Caffery (Cucumber Analysis)</li>
<li>Paul Coia (Solr and Sunspot)</li>
</ul>
<p>Please arrive at 6 for a 6:30 start. The official proceedings should wrap up by 9pm, and then we’ll head off for drinks somewhere. If you are late, then you’ll need to call Perryn Fowler on 0400 438 233 so he can let you in – and hope he’s feeling generous ;)</p>
<p>And don’t forget: everyone is welcome, no matter how experienced you are with Ruby. These meetings are a great opportunity to meet your peers, learn something, and hear about what’s been happening in the Ruby community.</p>
<p>See you all then :)</p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pat on November 24th, 2010</span>
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<h2><a href="2010/7/1/melbourne-analogue-blog-june.html">Melbourne Analogue Blog - June</a></h2>
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<p>Here’s the analog blog from the June meeting (on the 1st of July – a slight anomaly).</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://yowaustralia.com.au/melbourne/index.html"><span class="caps">YOW</span> Conference</a> is on in Melbourne in December
<ul>
<li>Can probably get a user group discount</li>
<li>About everything: agile/dev/etc</li>
<li>Obie Fernandez</li>
<li>Corey Haines</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/notahat/machinist">Machinist</a> 2 Beta is coming soon!</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper">MongoMapper</a> has been updated, named scopes working.</li>
<li><a href="http://datamapper.org">DataMapper</a> has hit 1.0</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sencha.com/blog/2010/06/14/ext-js-jqtouch-raphael-sencha/">extjs is now called sencha</a>
<ul>
<li>focus on touch interfaces</li>
<li>have hired dmitry from raphael, and David Kaneda from jqtouch</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/ianwhite/pickle">Pickle</a> has DataMapper support.
<ul>
<li>Pickle: useful step definitions for Machinist (or FactoryGirl) and Cucumber</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>RailsConf 2010 happened</li>
<li>Rails 3 betas are available
<ul>
<li>Rails 3 full release is coming soon.</li>
<li>Don’t use it with Ruby 1.9.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Rubinius now works
<ul>
<li>Speed is sometimes faster than <span class="caps">MRI</span>, sometimes slower.</li>
<li>It’s definitely usable.</li>
<li>Runs <strong>some</strong> C extensions.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://rubyconf.org/">RubyConf 2010</a> in New Orleans
<ul>
<li>But it clashes with Rails Camp Perth. They suck.</li>
<li>11th-13th November.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote <a href="http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/rethinking-rails-3-routes">a rant about removing routes</a>
<ul>
<li><span class="caps">DHH</span> wasn’t particularly supportive</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>GitHub Organisations
<ul>
<li>Don’t need to create a user for organisations, create an organisation instead.</li>
<li>Has read-only support, fixing deploy key issues.</li>
<li>Fixing cloning repos with collaborators.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://railscamps.com/#au_per_nov_2010">Rails Camp Perth</a> tickets will be released in the next few weeks.
<ul>
<li>12th-15th November</li>
<li>~$200/ticket</li>
<li>It’s a lot of fun.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mikeperham.com/2010/04/03/introducing-phat-an-asynchronous-rails-app/">PhatRails</a>
<ul>
<li>Patch for 2.3 by Mike Perham</li>
<li>Runs Rails inside EventMachine.</li>
<li>One process can respond to multiple requests at once.</li>
<li>Similar patches from Ilya Grigorik?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Postgres 9 is about to come out
<ul>
<li>streaming replication</li>
<li>hot-standby backups</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Lunchtime brown-bags for those who can’t always make it to the evening meets (or are interested), get in touch with James Ladd – james_ladd at hotmail dot com.</li>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pat on July 1st, 2010</span>
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<h2><a href="2010/5/13/melbourne-april-analogue-blogue.html">Melbourne April Analogue Blogue</a></h2>
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<ul>
<li>Heroku have added node.js support – (ridiculous) closed beta
<ul>
<li>email, and they’ll let you in</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Amazon Web Services (AWS) have opened a Singapore data centre</li>
<li><span class="caps">YOW</span> Talks 25th, 26th, 27th at Microsoft (Southbank), Jasper Hotel, elsewhere?
<ul>
<li>Agile – better backlogs, other agiley stuff
<ul>
<li>$10 unless you know someone</li>
<li>Check twitter for codes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Functional Programming inside NoSQL databases
<ul>
<li>$5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Half sold out…</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Mark Mansour
<ul>
<li>Thursday May 13th event</li>
<li><span class="caps">HTML</span>/CSS (Ben Schwarz)</li>
<li><span class="caps">YQL</span> and Web Services</li>
<li><span class="caps">HTTP</span></li>
<li>Other stuff?</li>
<li>Finding a venue</li>
<li>Free</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ben is doing <span class="caps">HTML5</span>/CSS3 workshops
<ul>
<li>first two have sold out</li>
<li>may be another</li>
<li>workshops for businesses are possible</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Xavier’s doing another database workshop, in Brisbane
<ul>
<li>And may tour the world!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Padrino
<ul>
<li>Sinatra framework</li>
<li><span class="caps">ORM</span> and Test agnostic</li>
<li>Configuratable by generators</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>RubyGems support for 1.8.6 is going to disappear.</li>
<li>JRuby 1.5 will be out soon?</li>
<li>IronRuby has gone 1.0 two weeks ago.</li>
<li>RunCodeRun has shut down</li>
<li>Devver shut down too… Caliper</li>
<li>Sensis is looking for Java/Ruby developers – talk to Mark Mansour</li>
<li><span class="caps">REA</span> is looking for Cocoa/ObjC/Ruby/Java developers
<ul>
<li>And Senior QA testers</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Everyone got rejected for RailsConf talks (well, Xavier – and who else matters?)</li>
<li><span class="caps">WWDC</span> tickets were released last night – 7th-11th June
<ul>
<li>Someone needs to pay for Gareth’s ticket. And Pete’s ticket. And Gareth’s mortgage.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>DevOps is happening in Sydney this weekend?</li>
<li><span class="caps">YOW</span> Conference is in December
<ul>
<li>Speakers are apparently pretty solid, according to JB</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Dave Thomas (Agile, not PragProg) is talking at the <span class="caps">RORO</span> meet next month</li>
<li>Mark Ryall is moving to Brisbane. Buy him a drink. Or five.</li>
<li>Rails Camp was awesome.</li>
</ul>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pat on May 13th, 2010</span>
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<h2><a href="2010/1/26/melbourne-ruby-january.html">Melbourne Ruby, January</a></h2>
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<p>This month we’ll be hosting the meetup at REA* (realestate.com.au’s HQ)
in Richmond. We’ll have a regular style meetup: A couple of presentations, some food, followed by some drinks at the Royston hotel* </p>
<h2>Got a presentation?</h2>
<p>We’re looking for presentations between 2 and 15 minutes in length.
Show something that you’ve worked on, a problem you’ve solved, some cool technology that you’ve come across recently.
New comers are welcome, there is no special guest list. </p>
<h2>What day?</h2>
<p>Thursday the 28th of Jan. Thats this week!</p>
<h2>When to arrive?</h2>
<p>Arrive for 6pm, we’ll be starting promptly at 6:30pm. If you’ve got something else on we’ll be at the Royston from around 8pm. </p>
<h2>Parking</h2>
<p>There is paid casual parking in the basement of the building and a fair bit of unmetered (2 hour during the day) on-street parking in surrounding
streets. I’d suggest parking on Harrison Crescent or Doonside Street. There’s also paid parking in the Victoria Gardens shopping centre itself </p>
<h2>Links</h2>
<ul>
<li>REA - Level 1, 678 Victoria Street, Richmond
Map - http://tinyurl.com/ygrstoh </li>
<li>Royston hotel - http://roystonhotel.com.au </li>
</ul>
<p>See you there!</p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by benschwarz on January 26th, 2010</span>
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<h2><a href="2009/10/28/melbourne-october-meeting-tonight.html">Melbourne october meeting tonight</a></h2>
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<p>We have some awesome speakers and a different venue for this month.
Arrive at 6 for a 6:30 start. </p>
<p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania/msg/29d87eeca6b8e09f">Read about the venue, speakers and other details in this thread</a></p>
<p>See you there! </p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by benschwarz on October 29th, 2009</span>
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<h2><a href="2009/7/24/melbourne-meetup-july-2009.html">Melbourne Meetup July 2009</a></h2>
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<p>After an awesome meetup last month – the next Melbourne group meetup
will be held on the 30th July, starting at 6.30pm.</p>
<p>This months speakers include:</p>
<p>- <a href="http://faces.rubyoceania.org/signup">Steve Hayes</a>, who will be delivering his “How your choices influence
your agility” talk from <span class="caps">JAOO</span></p>
<p>- <a href="http://faces.rubyoceania.org/users/14-JustinFrench">Justin French</a>, who will be performing a live re-design of a Rails
app from the user interface and experience perspective</p>
<p>Location for the next meetup will be:</p>
<p>Thoughtworks <span class="caps">IOOF</span> Building: <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Level+15,+corner+of+Elizabeth+and+Collins+Street+Melbourne&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=42.218098,79.013672&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A">Level 15, corner of Elizabeth and Collins
Street</a>
For lift access past 6.30pm <span class="caps">SMS</span> Mark Ryall on 0414 740 489.</p>
<p>Major thanks to our speakers for their upcoming talks, and to
Thoughtworks for the office/catering and usual awesomeness!</p>
<p>Lalaland have also offered us discounted drinks, etc, for the usual
post-evening chats, drinks and fun. More details about that on the
night.</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing you all there.</p>
<p>(via @crafterm on the group)</p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by dylan on July 24th, 2009</span>
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<h2><a href="2009/5/23/melbourne-meetup-thursday-28th-may.html">Melbourne Meetup, Thursday 28th May</a></h2>
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<h1>Format</h1>
<ul>
<li>Anablog </li>
<li>Marty Andrews - <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/6752">Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails</a></li>
<li>Pizza</li>
<li>Lightning talks †
<ul>
<li>Glen Maddern - “RubyOSA” </li>
<li><a href="http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/users/110-benschwarz">Ben Schwarz</a> - “Sinatra, Rack and Middlewares” </li>
<li><a href="http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/users/78-hassox">Daniel Neighman</a> - “Receiving email eventfully” </li>
</ul></li>
<li>Drinks</li>
</ul>
<h1>Venue</h1>
<p>Thoughtworks
IOOF Building : <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cyrbnc">Level 15, corner of Elizabeth and Collins Street</a>
For lift access past 6:30 SMS Mark Ryall on (0414 740 489) </p>
<p>† Lightning talks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk)</p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by benschwarz on May 23rd, 2009</span>
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<h2><a href="2009/4/15/melbourne-april-meetup.html">Melbourne April Meetup</a></h2>
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<h4>Thursday April 30th, 2009, 6:30pm</h4>
<h5>Lightning Talks</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/users/138-quamen">Gareth Townsend</a> – “Mass assignment” </li>
<li><a href="http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/users/110-benschwarz">Ben Schwarz</a> – “Smoke and pipes” </li>
<li><a href="http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/users/78-hassox">Daniel Neighman</a> – “rack-auth” </li>
<li>“James Healy” – “eventmachine hacking”</li>
</ul>
<h5>Why you should attend</h5>
<ul>
<li>It’ll be awesome</li>
</ul>
<h5>Venue (New venue!)</h5>
<p>Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne 3000
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<span class="postedby">Posted by benschwarz on April 15th, 2009</span>
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<li>Jamis is <a href="http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2009/2/25/net-ssh-capistrano-and-saying-goodbye">no longer supporting Capistrano, net::ssh, etc.</a>
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<li>Thanks for all your hard work Jamis! You’re awesome!</li>
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<li><a href="http://deprec.failmode.com/2009/02/16/deprec-20-unleashed-on-rubyforge/">Deprec 2 is on Rubyforge</a>. Buy Mike a beer and he’ll tell you all about it.</li>
<li><a href="http://railscampau.github.com/">RailsCamp bookings are open</a>. 150 spots all up.</li>
<li>Edge Rails
<ul>
<li>Now has <a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/23/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-batched-find">find in batches</a> support</li>
<li><a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/11/20/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-render-stops-being-high-maintenance">render method is now smarter</a>, and can figure out what it’s rendering automagically</li>
<li><a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-attributes">Nested model mass assignment</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Inside scoop: mod_rails will be available for nginx</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a> is cool</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/benschwarz/amnesia">Amnesia</a> monitors memcache servers, written in Sinatra</li>
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<p>After much discussion on the state of the Ruby world, we’ve decided to try something a little different for future meetings: we’re going to have a different person run each meeting, and we’re going to experiment wildly with the format.</p>
<p>Brent Snook has generously agreed to run the next one, and is going to run an Iron Chef meets Ruby Hacking night. A theme ingredient, along with more details, will be announced soon, and it’ll be a chance for everyone to come and show off their l33t Ruby skills.</p>
<p>A couple of other points of consensus:</p>
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<li>We’d like to try more hands-on stuff in the meetings</li>
<li>We’d like to have the topics be driven more by what people want, rather than just whatever anyone wants to talk about</li>
<li>A couple of in-demand topics: Sinatra, Cucumber, testing in general</li>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pete on March 11th, 2009</span>
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<p>A short one this month, thanks to the Christmas break, and the extreme heat.</p>
<p>We put off our meta-discussion until next meet as well, although it seems to be continuing happily on the list.</p>
<ul>
<li>Conferences, conferences, conferences
<ul>
<li>There will be no official Railsconf Europe this year!</li>
<li>RailsConf in Vegas conference will have <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/content/cabooseconf">CabooseConf</a> sponsored by O’Reilly
<ul>
<li>The magic discount code to use is “rc09usrg”</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://vic.au.stixcamp.org/">Stixcamp</a> on the 14th and 15th of March, in central Vic</li>
<li>Brisbabe Railscamp dates have been set (15th - 18th of May), and it’ll be free</li>
<li>Talk of doing a surf trip beforehand, hassle Gareth Townsend</li>
<li><a href="http://www.citconf.com/brisbane2009/">CITCON</a>, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, will be in Brisvegas, June 26 & 27</li>
</ul></li>
<li>New release of <a href="http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/">rdoc</a>, with spiffier templates</li>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pete on February 2nd, 2009</span>
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<h2><a href="2008/12/1/melbourne-analog-blog-november-2008.html">Melbourne Analog Blog November 2008</a></h2>
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<li>No meeting next month, but we’ll organise drinks on Thursday the 18th</li>
<li>RailsCamp 4 was teh awesome!
<ul>
<li>Next one will be in Queensland next year</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/2_2_release_notes.html">Rails 2.2</a> is out
<ul>
<li>Worth it if you’re using SQL Server for the <a href="http://github.com/rails-sqlserver">new adapter</a></li>
<li>Thread safe, and has DB connection pooling, so JRuby is <a href="http://syntatic.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/the-closet-jrubyists/">looking cooler</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.headius.com/2008/10/ffi-for-ruby-now-available.html">FFI</a> lets you call C in a nice way from Ruby
<ul>
<li>Works from JRuby, etc.</li>
<li>Lets you do callbacks without writing C</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://www.deprec.org/">Deprec 2</a> supports Passenger</li>
<li><a href="http://www.modrails.com/">Passenger</a> is getting more popular
<ul>
<li>Still has some issues, but <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1433-tadalist-on-rails-22-passenger-and-ec2">37Signals is running TadaList on it</a>, and are switching other apps</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/latimes/craken/tree/master">Craken</a> - Cron meets Rake and Capistrano</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/drnic/tabtab/tree/master">tabtab</a> is Dr Nic’s cool tool for make shell completion easier and more useful
<ul>
<li>git also has completions for bash, which you should use</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/defunkt/github-gem/tree/master">github gem</a> - command line tools to make working with github super easy</li>
<li><a href="http://gitx.frim.nl/">GitX</a> is a nice Cocoa git viewer</li>
<li><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/">CouchDB</a> promoted to an Apache incubator project. Is that a good thing?</li>
<li><a href="http://gist.github.com/23266">twicl</a> is a command line twitter client</li>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pete on December 1st, 2008</span>
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<p>That’s right, now you get two months for the price of one! (Do you like the way I’m making the fact that I forgot to do last month’s sound like a good thing?)</p>
<h2>October</h2>
<ul>
<li>New <a href="http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby">MacRuby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://opensource.thinkrelevance.com/wiki/tarantula">Tarantula</a> = big fuzzy spider good for testing XSS</li>
<li><a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/ruby-vm-in-javascript/">Ruby VM in Javascript</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cappuccino.org/">Capuccino</a> has been released!
<ul>
<li>See <a href="http://280slides.com/">280slides</a> for an example of what you can do with it</li>
<li>And while we’re on the topic of web-based presentation apps, <a href="http://sliderocket.com/">SlideRocket</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://g.ho.st/?language=en">Ghost</a> - free, web-based personal computer</li>
<li>Prototype alternatives
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jquery.com/">JQuery</a> is much loved by a bunch of people in the room</li>
<li><a href="http://mootools.net/">MooTools</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Good Javascript books
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/books/javascript1/">Simply JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/book/">ppk on JavaScript</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Cliff recommends <a href="http://haxe.org/">Haxe</a> - cool language that compiles down to JavaScript, Flash, …</li>
<li><a href="http://roodi.rubyforge.org/">roodi</a> - checkstyle for Ruby</li>
<li>SAP now has Ruby support (Ruby is doomed!)</li>
<li>Background processing for Rails
<ul>
<li>Mike recommends <a href="http://github.com/nickstenning/bj-plugin/tree/master">backgroundjob</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubypond.com/articles/2008/07/17/the-complete-guide-to-setting-up-starling/">Starling/workling</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/howlr/">Howlr</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/08/25/daemon_controller-a-library-for-robust-daemon-management/">Daemon Controller</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://envycasts.com/">EnvyCasts</a> - Nobody has checked them out, so no idea if they’re any good</li>
<li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">StackOverflow</a> - Joel Spolsky, non-crap version of expertsxchange + digg</li>
<li><a href="http://adhearsion.com/">Adhearsion</a> - Ruby Asterisk integration
<ul>
<li>See also <a href="http://www.snapvine.com/code/ragi/">RAGI</a>, which is older and more basic</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://validatable.rubyforge.org/">Validatable</a> plugin - alidation of an entire hierarchy of objects with errors aggregated at the root object</li>
</ul>
<h2>November</h2>
<ul>
<li>Releases
<ul>
<li><a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/24/rails-2-2-rc1-i18n-thread-safety-docs-etag-last-modified">Rails 2.2 RC1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/10/28/ruby-1-9-1-preview-1-released/">Ruby 1.9.1 preview 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ruby-symbian.rubyforge.org/">Ruby for Symbian</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/23/rails-2-1-2-security-other-fixes">Rails 2.1.2</a> released to patch a response splitting vulnerability</li>
<li>Ryan Davis released a <a href="http://blog.zenspider.com/2008/11/ruby-parser-version-201-has-be.html">pure Ruby parser for Ruby</a>
<ul>
<li>Now the default parser in <a href="http://rubini.us/">Rubinius</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Rubinius C++ branch is now the default branch (so they’re back where they were 6 months ago)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.merbcamp.com/video">Merbcamp</a> videos are online</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/ezmobius/nanite/tree/master">Nanite</a> - self assembling fabric of ruby daemons</li>
<li>SQLServer adapter for Rails is approaching a release candidate</li>
<li>Mike suggests cool books: <a href="http://runningxen.com/">Running Xen</a> and O’Reilly’s <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515812/index.html">Programming Amazon Web Services</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubyonrails.com.au/Slicehost">http://www.slicehost.com/</a> got bought by <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/index.php">Rackspace!</a>, were instantly buried in hail of tweets</li>
<li><a href="http://tomayko.com/src/rack-cache/">rack-cache</a> enables HTTP caching for Rack-based apps</li>
<li><a href="http://performerjs.org/">Performer.js</a> lets you do greyed-out <a href="http://performerjs.org/prototype/example.prompter.html">prompt text</a> in input fields</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic/tree/master">Formtastic</a>, Justin French’s awesome form builder, is getting awesomer</li>
<li>Pat’s <a href="http://peepcode.com/products/thinking-sphinx-pdf">Thinking Sphynx peepcode</a> - Go Pat!</li>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pete on November 9th, 2008</span>
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<li><a href="http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/faster_from_xml">faster_from_xml</a> Rails plugin = much faster XML deserialisation</li>
<li>Rails 2.2 will be thread safe!
<ul>
<li>Mongrel will be able to run multiple threads, but you'll still need a thread per CPU</li>
<li>JRuby will be able to run multiple real-OS threads</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Rails 2.2 will have i18n built in!
<ul>
<li>There's a <a href="http://i18n-demo.phusion.nl/">demo site</a> and the <a href="http://github.com/clemens/i18n_demo_app/tree/master">source for it</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tree/master">Cucumber</a> = replacement for RSpec story runner, will replace story runner</li>
<li>Blog post on Mike Bailey's blog on <a href="http://mike.bailey.net.au/blog/?p=25">cherry picking changes from git</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock">Never Block</a> = library that's using Ruby 1.9 fibres to make sure SQL queries don't block your web app</li>
<li>RailsEnvy guys are putting about their <a href="http://rubyonrails.com.au/envycasts.com">screencasts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://haxe.org/">haxe.org</a> = open source flash compiler, better way of writing flash</li>
<li><a href="http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/">Videos</a> of talks from Ruby Hoedown are available. Good ones are:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html">Chris Wanstrath's talk about Github</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/12-giles-bowkett-archaeopteryx-a-ruby-midi-generator.html">Giles Bowkett one on Archaeopteryx</a>, MIDI generation in Ruby</li>
</ul></li>
<li>REXML denial-of-service, there's a <a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/8/23/dos-vulnerabilities-in-rexml">hotfix</a>, or you can upgrade to <a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/9/5/rails-2-1-1-lots-of-bug-fixes">Rails 2.1.1</a></li>
<li>Post on Rails On The Run about how <a href="http://railsontherun.com/2008/8/27/ruby-developers-don-t-scale">Rubyists don't scale</a></li>
<li>IE8 beta 2 is out</li>
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<p>Hi everyone! </p>
<p>It's the Melbourne Ruby User Group this Thursday (28th of August @ 6:30PM), and it's being held at: </p>
<p>Thoughtworks: Level 11, 155 Queen Street, Melbourne
(SMS Mark on 0414 740 489 if you can't scale skyscrapers) </p>
<p>The most awesome speakers are: </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.garethtownsend.info/">Gareth Townsend</a> on CSS Transforms, Transitions and Animations. </li>
<li><a href="http://duckpunching.com/">Adam Meehan</a> on make_resourceful, a restful controller plugin for Rails. </li>
<li><a href="http://mark.ryall.name/blog/">Mark Ryall</a> on Iron Ruby Silverlight 2! </li>
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<p>There'll be a re-run of 'Pizza: Thoughtworks Edition' and probably (er, most likely) drinks afterwards. Remember we get 'mates rates' at the Chaise Lounge! Ruby Noobies are welcome and it'll be ace I'm sure. See you there! </p>
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<span class="postedby">Posted by pete on August 26th, 2008</span>
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<p>A particularly good meeting this month! It ran long, but everyone was so enthralled by the talks that they didn’t mind. Thanks to Marcus and the mysterious Tim for talking, Ryan for organising, and ThoughtWorks for being fabulous hosts as always.</p>
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<li>Edge Rails stuff:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/22/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-standard-internationalization-framework">i18n built in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-models">Complex forms</a>, first bits have gone in</li>
<li><a href="http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/16/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-memoization">Memoisation</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Jay Fields has a <a href="http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/07/refactoring-ruby-edition-available-on.html">Refactoring Ruby</a> book coming out</li>
<li><a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/120-thinking-sphinx">Latest RailsCast</a> is about Thinking Sphinx. Yay for Pat!</li>
<li>Dr Nic has done <a href="http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/07/04/unit-testing-iphone-apps-with-ruby-rbiphonetest/">rbiphonetest framework</a> for writing iPhone tests in Ruby
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<li>Runs against Cocoa, not iPhone libs, so is a bit…ummm…weird</li>
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