I think this suggestion is spot on; best mode of learning. There are a
number of lib.s, etc., which would be fun to code something up for,
and it helps you see how others are using standard toolsets.

For ruby newbies perhaps even a hands on night with some training for
using TextMate and rspec, etc..

Cheers,
Nicholas

On Jan 29, 11:35 am, Rob Caporetto <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 10:35 am, Clifford Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'd like to propose a different kind of night, that could alternate
> > with a more regular meeting... a "play-along" night. That is, a
> > night where someone comes prepared to lead everyone, each
> > on their own laptop, through installing, configuring, and *using*,
> > some cool Ruby thing. Like a hands-on training workshop. Each
> > such night to have a theme - music, or story-based testing, or
> > PDF generation, or JQuery, or ... you can think of more.
>
> > The basic idea is to not be a passive audience, but to participate.
>
> I certain am a fan of this - I certainly find there's a number of
> libraries or tools I'd kill to play around with, but with the
> combination of work & whatnot, I find there's never a chance to find a
> small project to actually implement them in.
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