Austin On Rails

Mattt Thompson - I18n and L10n on Rails 3

In this talk, you’ll learn everything you need to know to get your site ready for a global audience. After a gentle introduction to the fundamentals of software internationalization and localization, we’ll take a deep dive into the Rails 3 I18n API and other useful tools and plug-ins.

Mattt Thompson (@mattt) is a hacker and iPad developer at Gowalla.

Railsconf 2010 Recap

Rails 3 Overview / Merb to Rails 3

Richard Schneeman - Rails 3.0 Email

No matter what new communication protocols we adopt in the future, email is here to stay. So if you’re not taking advantage of ActionMailer in Ruby on Rails you’re missing out. In this talk, we’ll cover ActionMailer basics as well as the changes coming to email in rails 3.0. We’ll go into depth on sending & receiving emails, as well as the testing techniques used to make sure that WhySpam.me stays up and running. For those of you that haven’t delved into guts email before we’ll be introducing how email structure including MIME types and discussing some different ways to set up your own production mail server.

Ethan Waldo - TestJour

TestJour is a Rails-based system used for running distributed Cucumber tests. In the talk, a TestJour system will be set up from a GitHub project to a working system. A majority of the effort spent in a TestJour setup is not in getting TestJour working, but in efficiently preparing the master and slaves systems for running tests on the intended project. Virtualization is used heavily in their solution and they’ll briefly discuss some of the technology benefits for using a virtual environment for less resource consumption. This can help make the efficient use of multi-processing/multi-core systems when the primary bottleneck is not in IO but in CPU processing.

TestJour is a Rails-based system used for running distributed Cucumber tests. In the talk, a TestJour system will be set up from a GitHub project to a working system. A majority of the effort spent in a TestJour setup is not in getting TestJour working, but in efficiently preparing the master and slaves systems for running tests on the intended project. Virtualization is used heavily in their solution and they’ll briefly discuss some of the technology benefits for using a virtual environment for less resource consumption. This can help make the efficient use of multi-processing/multi-core systems when the primary bottleneck is not in IO but in CPU processing.

Merry Christmas! Oops wait…wrong month. It’s 2010 folks…and it’s shaping up to be a good one for the Austin Rails community. Our community is stronger now than ever and we’ll continue with our work (ha! we are coding in Ruby after all) this year.

Howdy everyone!

Due to the Christmas holiday, we will be having a social event in lieu of a standard meeting. Normal meeting schedule resumes in January!

Party!

It’s time for the Second Annual Austin on Rails / Refresh Austin party and this time the fine folks of WordPress Austin will join us as co-hosts. Even better, the first 100 people to join us at the party will get a free drink thanks to our neighbor Rackspace (they’re right down the road in San Antonio).

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Videos:

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Meeting is tomorrow. Rock on.

Due to the the Thanksgiving holiday our meeting has been moved up this month to November 17th. We’ve got an awesome meeting this month and we hope you can make it out!

Many people who love git have a tendency to get excited by the internals of it; how it does the things that make it so great. For the uninitiated, these details can be intimidating and more than a little opaque. We’ll look at a (very) brief over-view of what git is and isn’t, then get to the more important question to the working developer: “How do I use it?” We’ll look at commonly used commands, discuss various work-flows, and compare and contrast subversion’s ways of doing things. The focus will be on how to get things done, not how does git work.