Ruby on Rails Oceania

• Jamis is no longer supporting Capistrano, net::ssh, etc.
  • Thanks for all your hard work Jamis! You’re awesome!
• Deprec 2 is on Rubyforge. Buy Mike a beer and he’ll tell you all about it.
• RailsCamp bookings are open. 150 spots all up.
• Edge Rails
  • Now has find in batches support
  • render method is now smarter, and can figure out what it’s rendering automagically
  • Nested model mass assignment
• Inside scoop: mod_rails will be available for nginx
• Sinatra is cool
• Amnesia monitors memcache servers, written in Sinatra

After much discussion on the state of the Ruby world, we’ve decided to try something a little different for future meetings: we’re going to have a different person run each meeting, and we’re going to experiment wildly with the format.

Brent Snook has generously agreed to run the next one, and is going to run an Iron Chef meets Ruby Hacking night. A theme ingredient, along with more details, will be announced soon, and it’ll be a chance for everyone to come and show off their l33t Ruby skills.

A couple of other points of consensus:

• We’d like to try more hands-on stuff in the meetings
• We’d like to have the topics be driven more by what people want, rather than just whatever anyone wants to talk about
• A couple of in-demand topics: Sinatra, Cucumber, testing in general