Here's the lineup for tonight's meeting! MACRUBY: WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL? Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in Ruby without having to pay the cost of using a bridge is now a reality. This is an important milestone for Ruby, Apple and the Ruby community.
Matt Aimonetti will explain the implementation, show how to build desktop applications with MacRuby & HotCocoa, and discuss why Ruby developers should add this new tool to their utility belt. Matt will also talk about the future of MacRuby. RAILS CASE STUDY Guyren Howe is doing something a little different with his current project, trying to make it more user-modifiable and user friendly than your average intraweb application, and removing some of the redundancy in regular Rails code. The current state of the project will be discussed, along with whether the interesting parts should be open sourced. MIGRATING LEGACY DATA Let's face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It's slow, error prone, and a ton of work. What if you could import old data into a new app before it's finished? Normalize fields? Clean up old data? And migrate often? Patrick Crowley shows the way. RAFFLE We'll be giving away a shiny new Peepcode, along with copies of the Ruby Phrasebook, Railspace, and Flex on Rails. .... DIRECTIONS Meetings are held on the UCSD campus, at 7:30pm, on the first Thursday of the month. If you plan to drive, follow the directions below and make sure to get a parking pass. Map to UCSD => http://tinyurl.com/2f486e SPEAK AT THE NEXT MEETING If you'd like to speak at our March meeting, shout out on the mailing list. -- Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
