Just to chime in, perhaps belatedly, I was extremely interested in merb in 2008. Now I'm interested in Rails 3 due in May, I think, but not nearly to the same degree. Perhaps this meets the flattened tone you mentioned - merb was looking to be a fantastic alternative, with many great ideas. It's great that it's improved Rails, but we're back to the "Rails Way" for web programming a large app. in Ruby again; forgetting the existence of smaller frameworks for the moment.
Rubymine as an editor is in beta, and might shape up to be a great IDE for Ruby, for those who want that sort of thing - http://blogs.jetbrains.com/ruby/ . I suppose group programming sessions could be fun. The Extreme Programming Group in Sydney used to sometimes organize them; though they were more about races and about teaching TDD. I'd be more interested in doing hands on things every now and then than presentations, but seeing I have a low turn up rate at the meetings (I do come to some), I'm perhaps not the best voice for this. Cheers, Nicholas On Jan 14, 4:54 pm, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: > A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got > together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We > bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth > including. > > As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as > excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held) > about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby. > We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting > innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps > happening. > > That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all > think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the > start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness > the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep > everyone involved and excited this year. > > So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one > speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta- > discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne > roro group. > > I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting. > Please come along having thought about the following things: > > 1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or > anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of > years? > > 2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across > in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or > non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated. > > 3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year? > > If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group, > please bring those along too. > > (And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.) > > - Pete --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
