Anthropic chatbot - Build a conversational agent RailsConf CFP App - Manage CFP submissions RailsConf Scheduler - Schedule talks, rooms, etc. Ruby Rogues Podcast Site - Manage episodes, guests, etc. Ruby on Rails Tutorial App - Build the sample app from the book Ruby Style Guide - A style guide for Ruby code Ruby Style Guide App - Enforce style guide on code reviews Ruby Style Guide Linter - Lint code against a style guide Ruby Style Guide Website - Publish the style guide online Ruby Style Guide Gem - Distribute the style guide as a gem

1. Welcome to
Ruby Tuesday :)
January 24, 2012

2. Tonight’s Plan
A few announcements
Introduce yourselves
Video: Fat Models Aren’t Enough
Break: food and networking
Group project roundtable / Katas

3. Announcements

4. February Speaker:
Peter Cooper
RubyInside.com
Ruby Weekly
Ruby Flow
Author of Beginning
Ruby (Apress)

5. March Speaker:
Jeff Casimir
Jumpstart Lab Founder
Ruby, Rails, jQuery
Teacher
As seen in
Codeschool’s jQuery
Air: First Flight
...and tonight’s video :)

6. Real Quick:
Rails 3.2 is out!

7. Real Quick:
Rails 3.2 is out!
More details at
weblog.rubyonrails.org

8. Group Project
What?
Why

9. Introduce
yourselves...

10. Video time! :)

11. Talk: Fat Models
Aren’t Enough
Slides at: http://bit.ly/jeff-fmae
or
(backup) http://bit.ly/jeff-fmae2

12. Talk: Fat Models
Aren’t Enough
Thoughts? Questions?

13. Break: Food and
Schmoozing...
After the break, we’ll talk about the group project
It’s optional, but it would be great to hear your thoughts

14. Katas
Beginners: Google “Ruby yellow belt kata”
Or: http://bit.ly/yellow-belt-kata
Intermediate/Advanced:
http://bit.ly/refactoring-kata

15. Kata Practice
$ git clone https://github.com/jimweirich/
gilded_rose_kata

16. Group Project
Roundtable Talk
Thoughts on the current list of projects?
How should we divvy up the tasks?
Focus on group learning? How?
How can we optimize learning / growth?

17. Project Ideas List
(In the order submitted)
Open Source Gem Showcase app
- A ruby-toolbox.com for gems that need lovin’
Work on Nifty Assignments
- Academic-style assignments
Whenbot: ifttt.com clone
- Trigger -> Parse -> Publish
Table-Easy
- Table parser / presenter