# Hey hey it's RORO in January
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"Testing for Lazyness" - Gareth + Josh
"Clamp" - Mike
"Refactoring Legacy Code" - Paul
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- Zombie! Headless browser testing environment, with DOM, FAST.
* capybara-zombie is a ruby bridge, not yet ready for prime time
- PhantomJS, same again but with webkit in it.
- New ruby patch releases for 1.8.7 + 1.9.2
- MacRuby 0.8. Almost runs rails, runs rack like a champ.
- JRuby 1.6, 1.9.2 compatible (pretty much), faster
- Heroku sold to Salesforce for $$$$$ WHAT DOES IT MEAN
- Mail gem vulnerability, everyone should upgrade!
- Refinements, scoped monkey patching. Proposal!
- Railsconf and euruko CFPs open - get in fast, close soon
* Mid-may, late may. YOU COULD DO BOTH.
- Hackety-hack 1.0. Get your kids on ruby. Xmas present!
- FlyingSphinx, heroku thinking sphinx add-on.
* Private beta in next week ironclad guarantee says Pat.
- RSpec book in print, you can buy it.
- Xen support back in latest debian.
* "It's freaking sweet" says Mike Bailey.
- Vigetlabs blog post, emacs 24 with rails. Now with packages!
* "Guys really emacs is cool" - Mark
- Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) a rails contributor
* He also ran a comp for rubycommitters.org design. _why inspired
design will win.
- ASIDE: html5 logo wtf
- P2PU rails course starting:
https://www.drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft/about
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- Cogent Consulting hiring ruby devs, frontend too.
- [email protected]: Playup, Church st Richmond, mobile dev,
sports (not betting) jruby too.
- [email protected]: C3 looking for 3 devs. Rails stuff.
- [email protected]: Redbubble looking for devs
- Sensis ruby devs. Big datawarehouse/BI project. Talk to Adam/Ben.
JRuby. 2-3 month contract.
- [email protected]: Impact data, senior rails dev, junior soon.
Marketing software, about to go beta. Mongo, heroku. Social media
integration, facebook, twitter.
- [email protected]: Melbourne univeristy earth sciences dept. 6
month contract, intermediate rails dev, climate scientists DB.
- [email protected]: Lonely Planet, rails devs
- Envato are probably hiring but they are all go-karting so who would know?
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