Add your ideas for topics that you would like to see (or present!) in our meetings. The topics can be Rails, Ruby, or anything that you think might interest the group.

Proposed Topics

• Nested Resources - RESTyful nested resource example from (near) production app - Keith Lancaster (would be willing to present)
• Images - Generating images dynamically with Ruby.
• Distributed Ruby (DRb) - Matt Sanders would be willing to present.
• Hackers Guide to CSS - Mike Hagedorn would like to give a brief talk on cleaning up your pages with CSS instead of tables and etc.
• RSpec - http://rspec.rubyforge.org/ : an interesting variant on Test::Unit gaining strength in the Rails community
• Submitting a Patch to Rails Core
• Performance Testing/Caching Techniques
• Camping - http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/ : _why's web microframework
• Using Ruby as the backend scripting language for GUI Interfaces (Examples: Replacing AppleScript with Ruby, Interacting with the Cocoa Framework. Where possible, also present similar solutions for Windows OS, and Linux.)
• RoR Solutions for using Amazon Web Services (managing EC2 virtual servers, load balancing strategies with EC2 servers, preserving data in the event of EC2 Server failure, etc.)
• JRuby - Running Ruby code on the JVM, deploying Rails apps. to JEE containers (Wes Gamble)

Scheduled

• May 8, 2007: TBD

• Form Builders - a cool way to clean up your form code in a Rails app - Keith Lancaster
• Jrb** - Java-Ruby bridge: Using Java libraries from Ruby/Rails code. Wes Gamble

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