Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
Gem - Preston
Peter H. - Brighton
Spooq - London
And any topics to discuss:
HP sauce and Chunky Bacon (see previous thread for details)
Good ruby resources
Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
Ruby usage at work… Or “Wearing Ruby Slippers to Work” (better than
bring your dog to work day)
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Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote:
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
I would be up for a meeting but if you are in Preston or anywhere in the
North West of England you also might be interested in the North West
Ruby U. Group[1] which is a regular meeting that already happens every
month in Manchester.
The next meeting is on the 14th Nov at the B-Lounge in Manchester[2] and
you would be more than welcome. We also run a mailing list for the North
West and occasional other events[3].
More details at the NWRUG site[3].
[1] - http://nwrug.org/
[2] - GeekUp - Upcoming.org Archive
[3] - GeekUp - Ruby and Rails | September 30th 2006, Manchester
If you’re in London, don’t forget the existence of LRUG
(http://lrug.org). Which is a) great and b) friendly, especially on
the mailing list. And not all the LRUGgers are based in London either,
so they might be interested in stuff outside it.
t.
On 25 Oct 2006, at 10:32, Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote:
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
Gem - Preston
Peter H. - Brighton
Spooq - London
Paul R.: Manchester
I’d imagine a large proportion of the entire North West Ruby U.
Group: The North West, with a concentration around Manchester thanks
to GeekUp. Can do a headcount over there if you want?
And any topics to discuss:
HP sauce and Chunky Bacon (see previous thread for details)
I’m vegetarian. So it’s Chunky Quorn Bacon-style Slices for me. 
Good ruby resources
Democratic Republic of Congo. Oh, you didn’t mean that type of Ruby…
Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
Where to start? Look at CPAN, look at Rubyforge, subtract one from
the other and you have a list of candidates, I suppose…
Ruby usage at work… Or “Wearing Ruby Slippers to Work” (better than
bring your dog to work day)
100% of my code at work is now Ruby. Advantage of being your own
boss. 
Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote:
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
Gem - Preston
Peter H. - Brighton
Spooq - London
Jeremy - Gatwick
And any topics to discuss:
HP sauce and Chunky Bacon (see previous thread for details)
Good ruby resources
Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
I think it’d be good to have a good svg builder based on xml builder.
I’ve not seen an intuitive svg gem.
Ruby usage at work… Or “Wearing Ruby Slippers to Work” (better than
bring your dog to work day)
We’re now developing all our new systems in ruby and on rails.
–
Jeremy W.
Paul R. wrote:
Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
Where to start? Look at CPAN, look at Rubyforge, subtract one from the
other and you have a list of candidates, I suppose…
Although I am the first to point out the advantages of CPAN and bemoan
the lack of such a resource in other languages playing catchup to CPAN
is just plain crazy. You will always be behind the game. Rails is
however a very good example of the sort of thing that can spread the
awareness of Ruby.
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“Cameron, Gemma (UK)” [email protected] writes
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
Alec - London/Kent
On 25/10/06, Thomas A. [email protected] wrote:
Thomas - Southampton/Hampshire.
– Thomas A.
Paolo - Swindon/Wiltshire
Thanks
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:15:12AM +0900, Alec R. wrote:
In message C4E42C77B75F724FAE57FA9A5319563806592F53@glkms0012,
“Cameron, Gemma (UK)” [email protected] writes
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
Alec - London/Kent
Thomas - Southampton/Hampshire.
– Thomas A.
Cameron, Gemma (UK) wrote:
Head count for who’d be up for a meeting and where you currently hang
your hat please:
rik - London or Manchester - I can be at either, but I’d prefer late
Friday or at the weekend, if oop norf is chosen, due to working dahn
sarf.
And any topics to discuss:
HP sauce and Chunky Bacon (see previous thread for details)
I’m sure that needs a wrapper of some variety.
Possible Gems to develop (not me!)
Something that makes working with XML more appealing than gouging my
eyes out with a rusty spoon. A port of JDOM or DOM4J, for example. I
would take this on as something to do.