Welcome toRuby Tuesday :)

March 27, 2012

Tonight’s Plan

Introduce yourselves

A few announcements (time-permitting)

Presentation: Jeff Casimir

Break: food and networking

Group project: Getting Started

Introduce yourselves

We won’t bite. ;)

Announcements

Github Freebie

Free Github accounts for students!

github.com/edu

Sadly, they’ve run out of student accounts. :(

(Keep checking back for updates.)

But, everyone can get unlimited, free

private repositories at bitbucket.org

(in case you didn’t already know...)

Next Month

Code Session to work on the group project.

May Speaker:Charles Max Wood

Ruby/Rails Coach and Teacher

TeachMeToCode.com

Ruby Rogues

Javascript Jabber

Ruby Freelancers

Jeff Casimir

Founder: Jumpstart LabRuby, Rails, JQuery

TeacherAs seen in: JQuery Air

Tonight’s Speaker

Talk Topic“Ruby can’t

scale?”

Tonight’s Speaker

Break: Food and Schmoozing...

After the break: Group Project - let’s get started

(around 20 minutes.)

Group ProjectGetting Started

Group ProjectUpdate 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.

Group Project

Tonight, we’ll get people started on creating a

Channel

Group ProjectStep 1: If you have time,

read the Whenbot Overview

http://bit.ly/whenbot-overview

Group Project

Step 2: RSVP for your Channel

http://bit.ly/whenbot-rsvp

Group ProjectStep 3: Create your Gem

http://bit.ly/make-a-gem

Group ProjectWhen creating your

Gem, call it “whenbot-channel_name”

$ bundle gem whenbot-twitter

...then continue with the tutorial.

Group ProjectStep 4: Use the following Whenbot Channel folder

structurebit.ly/whenbot-channel-dir-structure

Group ProjectStep 5: Copy the sample methods and use them

as a guidebit.ly/whenbot-channel-samples

Note: Better guides coming soon...