Here's the lineup for tomorrow's meeting! WRITING JSON APIS WITH SINATRA James Miller goes over writing and testing JSON APIs with Sinatra and rack/test. Authenticate, handle errors, set proper HTTP status codes, customize headers with pagination and rate limiting data, and mount it to an existing Rails app.
METAPROGRAMMING TRICKS SDRuby Alumni Chris Kelly returns to talk about metaprogramming. New Relic is able to instrument your Ruby app without littering your code with decorators through the magic of metaprogramming. We'll take a walk through metaprogramming in Ruby starting with understanding the object model and getting into some specific examples found in the New Relic RPM gem. RAFFLE We'll be giving away several ebooks (from Peepcode and O'Reilly), software licenses, t-shirts from New Relic, and Heroku credits! AFTERPARTY After the meeting, we'll head over to Rock Bottom Brewery. .... 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 Wanna talk at our next meeting? Shout out on the mailing list. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
