LRUG Meeting: Frederik Fix on ruby2ruby and ParseTree
Date: Monday, August 13th, 2007
Frederik Fix, who has been delving into the
dark work of ruby2ruby and ParseTree. This stuff is, in Frederiks own words "
quite advanced and very experimental. But that makes it all the more interesting.". Frederik's talk covered the Abstract Syntax Tree and how to get it from ParseTree. He also showed some examples of how to use the AST and gave a demo of a plugin that uses all this to translate Ruby to JavaScript.
Podcast coming soon!
LRUG Meeting: Jay Phillips on Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Adhearsion
Date: Monday, August 13th, 2007
Adhearsion's creator Jay Phillips discussed Ruby's work in VoIP and how even complete telephony novices can powerfully develop their own VoIP system with Asterisk and Adhearsion using pure-Ruby for all application logic. Attendees saw Jay develop a sophisticated Adhearsion application that integrates and handles calls from the public telephone network and integrates with a Rails application. Adding a voice component to a web application is much easier than you think!
Podcast coming soon!
LRUG Meeting: Dan Webb on Open ID and Tom Armitage with Code Katas
Date: Monday, June 11th, 2007
LRUG Meeting: Saving the World with Ruby and Rails
Date: Monday, Feb 12th, 2007
Richard Livsey, of CitySafe, discussed his experience with Ruby and Rails and what he has found whilst developing a suite of applications to prepare for and respond to disasters. Specifically, he looked at how Ruby helped him and CitySafe rapidly prototype an application to model liquid gas spills, some of the plug-ins they have developed. He also touched upon building RESTful applications in Rails.
Check out his Richard's talk on Ruby on Rails at CitySafe here
LRUG Meeting: Damien Tanner on Domain Specific Languages (DSL): For Fun and For Profit
Date: Monday, Oct 3rd, 2006
LRUG Meeting: Murray Steele on Using Java code and libraries within Ruby
Date: Monday, July 10th, 2006
Murray Steele talked about using Java code and libraries within Ruby, why you might want to do such a thing (legacy libraries, enterprise integration, etc and on how to do such a thing using YAJB, along with some "fun" examples.
Download Murray's presentation on Java and Ruby integration here
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
script_server_tomcat
yajb
LRUG Meeting: Ben Griffiths on Ruby Testing Techniques
Date: Monday, May 8th, 2006
Ben Griffiths, CTO of UK consumer reviews start-up Reevoo, shared some of the testing techniques and tools that his team have used and developed in a years' worth of test-heavy Ruby and Ruby on Rails development.
Ben's presentation on Ruby testing techniques can be downloaded here
Download the Mocha Framework here
