Ruby on Rails Oceania

Thanks to David, Tim, Xavier, Carl and Andy for stepping up to present at this month’s meeting in our cosy, popular new venue at the Trinity Bar.

• Railscamp
  • Railscamp 4 is being planned for November in Adelaide rather than Kangaroo Island (Lachie leading the charge). Keep your eyes peeled becaused there will be a hard limit on numbers
  • Lachie also mentioned that Railscamp 5 is being organised to take place in Brisbane in winter 2009
  • Pat Allan is organising the UK Railscamp, another Railscamp is taking place in Denmark; kudos to Ben Askins for starting it all
• Lachlan Hardy reported that Webjam might be happening at the end of September and that the codebase is on github
• There is a good movie from the Rails Envy guys about the Ruby Hoedown
• Andy mentioned another series of Ruby vulnerabilities
• TweetBeer was released by Lachie Cox and Matt Allen after 6 hours of coding. It uses the twitter search api and a gem (Matt had inspiration when he was doing the dishes)
• Craig gave a plug for Web Directions, which is happening in late September