Slides from the March 27th, 2012 Ruby Tuesday meetup, by Ottawa Ruby.

1. Welcome to
Ruby Tuesday :)
March 27, 2012

2. Tonight’s Plan
Introduce yourselves
A few announcements (time-permitting)
Presentation: Jeff Casimir
Break: food and networking
Group project: Getting Started

3. Introduce
yourselves
We won’t bite. ;)

4. Announcements

5. Github Freebie
Free Github accounts
for students!
github.com/edu

6. Sadly, they’ve run out of
student accounts. :(
(Keep checking back for updates.)

7. But, everyone can get
unlimited, free
private repositories at
bitbucket.org
(in case you didn’t already know...)

8. Next Month
Code Session to work on
the group project.

9. May Speaker:
Charles Max Wood
Ruby/Rails Coach and
Teacher
TeachMeToCode.com
Ruby Rogues
Javascript Jabber
Ruby Freelancers

10. Tonight’s Speaker
Jeff
Casimir
Founder: Jumpstart Lab
Ruby, Rails, JQuery
Teacher
As seen in: JQuery Air

11. Tonight’s Speaker
Talk Topic
“Ruby can’t
scale?”

12. Break: Food and
Schmoozing...
(around 20 minutes.)
After the break: Group Project - let’s get started

13. Group Project
Getting Started

14. Group Project
Update for post-
meetup slide viewers:
If you wait a bit, we’ll have some
more solid instructions, code and
walkthroughs on getting started.
But you can still look at the following
for the rough guide.

15. Group Project
Tonight, we’ll get people
started on creating a
Channel

16. Group Project
Step 1: If you have time,
read the Whenbot
Overview
http://bit.ly/whenbot-overview

17. Group Project
Step 2: RSVP for your
Channel
http://bit.ly/whenbot-rsvp

18. Group Project
Step 3: Create your Gem
http://bit.ly/make-a-gem

19. Group Project
When creating your
Gem, call it
“whenbot-channel_name”
$ bundle gem whenbot-twitter
...then continue with the tutorial.

20. Group Project
Step 4: Use the following
Whenbot Channel folder
structure
bit.ly/whenbot-channel-dir-structure

21. Group Project
Step 5: Copy the sample
methods and use them
as a guide
bit.ly/whenbot-channel-samples

22. Note:
Better guides
coming soon...