Announcement for the May 2015 Atlanta Ruby Users Group.

1. ATLRUG Announcements
May 2015
● RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015
– Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.
– http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch
● RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)
● Rails Girls SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-15
● 9 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:
– https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
● Find a Project or Non-Project to help out with: http://hashtagcharity.org/discover
● Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org, etc: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow
al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together.

2. Up-Coming Community Events
●
Emerald City Rails Study Group classes are done for this year. Will start back up in
September.
●
May.15-16: Music Hackathon @ General Assembly/Midtown:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-hack-atl-tickets-16155006058
● May.20: Atlanta Intermediate Ruby meeting: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
● May.21: Nerd Club: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
● May.26: Civic Hack Night in Midtown: Details on their Code-for-America/Atlanta
Meetup site
● May.31-Jun.1 or Jun.5-6-7: National Day of Civic Hacking Hackathon (Athens,
Augusta, Atlanta, Dawsonville, Macon events on http://hackforchange.org/events )
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3. Upgrades
● Remember to upgrade to Ruby 2.1.6 and 2.2.2.
● Yes, I'm mobile-friendly based on:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?ur
● Brian Rossetti volunteered to upgrade our ATLRUG web
site (atlrug/atlrug4 repo) from youtube_it gem (based on
youtube api v2) to yt gem. THANK YOU!
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4. Talk Anyone?
● Let's look at an “Alternative Rails Workflow” - mine?
– Share my Ubuntu Rails setup, heavy Bash/ shell usage, and
"extreme" gem management technique that I regularly use
on my 40+ repos (currently 169+ times during last ~2+ years,
including Rails 2.3 to 5.0 projects, some repo 4+ years old).
al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology
together