# Missoula Ruby/Rails Group, Januray Ruby Tuesday Gathering

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**Created:** [December 28, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missoula-ruby-rails-group-januray-ruby-tuesday-gathering/80561 "2006-12-28T18:00:47Z")\
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The first Ruby Tuesday gathering for 2007 of the Missoula Ruby & Ruby on  
Rails Group will be January 2nd. (Note that’s the evening of the _first_  
workday after the long weekend. It’ll feel very much like Monday, but  
it’s still Tuesday.) Nothing very formal or organized. Just a friendly  
gathering of enthusiasts to chat about Ruby & RoR and related topics  
over dinner and/or drinks. Once again, we’ll gather in the back half of  
Sean Kelly’s (downtown) at 6pm. If you work with Ruby (either  
professionally or as a hobby), or have other talents that will blend  
well with our group (such as our two designers who lead the CSS  
enlightenment) and will be in town, please come out and introduce  
yourself. In addition, our low-volume mailing list is at:  
[http://groups.google.com/group/ms-rug](http://groups.google.com/group/ms-rug)  
[http://groups.google.com/groups/adult\_confirm?\_done=/group/ms-rug](http://groups.google.com/groups/adult_confirm?_done=/group/ms-rug)

We’re currently maintaining a “wishlist” of stuff we’d like to learn  
more about. If you consider yourself well versed in any of these topics,  
feel free to enlighten us on Tuesday. Or, if you’re up for giving a  
formal presentation, let us know on Tuesday and we’ll work on arranging  
appropriate facilities for the February meeting. If the items on the  
list seem complicated and intimidate you, don’t let them. They’re on the  
list because we don’t know (much) about them either.

```
* JRuby [and other alternative interpreters.]
* RSpec (BDD)
* Managing common code across projects
* Overriding built-in ruby functionality
* Structuring HTML for CSS Layout (Best practices for when the
  developer and the designer are two or more different people.)
* "All the things I should be using but don't know about."
* REST / ActiveResource

```

We’re also toying with the idea of getting ourselves our own www/“It’s  
not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.”/internets thingies. If you’ve  
got any great ideas on hardware/hosting/financing and what we  
could/should do with it, see the discussion so far on the mailing list,  
and then bring up the topic on Tuesday.