7 p.m. Show up and hang out.
7:30 p.m. Lightning talks and announcements
As always, anybody is encouraged to get up and do impromptu announcements and/or talks on tiny little subjects for five minutes or less.
7:45 p.m. The Elements of Ruby Style
Ruby is attractive in part because of how clean and beautiful it is. While the language supports that elegance, writing code in this “Ruby style” doesn’t come naturally to a beginner. In this talk, my panel of expert Rubyists will help me lead a conversation about what is and isn’t Ruby style as we look at simple pairs of alternative implementations of the same concept. Interaction and debate encouraged. -Luke Melia
8:45 p.m. Book raffle
We’ll be raffling off one free O’Reilly Ruby book, and one free PeepCode screencast.
8:45 p.m. Consuming REST based web services in Ruby & Rails – observations and discussion
Ruby and Rails makes it easy to create web services. What about consuming them. There’s soap4r – but what if you prefer to consume via REST?
Pauli Price