Hi,

It is seems to me that there’s a handful of active Rails developers  in the Burlington area. And based on the Code Camp presentation audience, there’s also a potential of about a dozen of people who have interest to learn more about this technology.

Do we want to make an effort to restart regular meetings (may be semi-monthly)?

Also, Dan Coutu, that came to the Rails presentation last Saturday, mentioned an idea of virtual meetings. He lives in the  north-east of Vermont and would not be able to come otherwise. I do not have a ready solution, but it seems to me that Skype video for conference calls and some form of desktop sharing for presenter is available and we could piece this together, if it would create much more traction than meeting in person.

Looking forward to your comments!

We are going to have a User Group meeting on Sept 12 at 6 PM. The meeting is at Draker Solar Design, 22 North Street,Burlington, Vermont 05401.

Hope to see you there.

Jan Schultz

jschultz@agrefresh.org

We are going to have a User Group meeting on Sept 12 at 6 PM. The meeting is at Draker Solar Design, 22 North Street,Burlington, Vermont 05401.

Need to put your code into Subversion so it can be deployed using Capistrano. I’ll show you how to do that using the RadRails/aptana IDE and a bit of the command line on a PC using Instant Rails.

Need to select a host. Should it be shared, virtual or dedicated? What hosting service do you want to use? Do you want to do it in-house? How do you decide?

Depending upon the host, should you freeze the gems? Are there other things that should be done before the first deploy? (What about the passwords in the production log file?)

Production chores include daily (or more often) backup and rotating log files. How to use CRON to help with these chores.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Cheers,

Jan Schultz (jschultz@agrefresh.org)

Which is tomorrow.

I will have some Rails books with me to show and talk about, so, that would be a good way to spot us.

See you there!

Hi! Since we have not gotten much of a response, Jan and myself decided to pick a date about two weeks in advance so everybody can make it.

We picked Pub and Brewery for the meeting, for it’s friendly atmosphere, location and good tasting beer. The plan is to meet everybody in person and shake hands and see what topics are attracting most of the interest.

We are going to raffle Rails Cookbook we received from O’Reilly.

See everybody there!

Sergei and Jan want your input on planning our next meeting. We know that the summer may not be the best time but want to keep the Rails train moving. Everybody, please, register and put your preferred dates, times and locations in the comments to this post, so we all can find a good time for everybody to get together.

Is there interest in a July meeting? What should we discuss / present? Jan has just deployed his first Rails app at TextDrive on a shared server. He’d be happy to talk about getting it up and running. He has been looking at other hosting sites but has not made a decision about what to do. The web site carbonfreedom.org generates pdf documents, users PayPal and the goldberg framework / plug-in. He’d be happy to talk about that as well.

Or, should we get together for a brew at the VT Pub and Brewery and just check in and meet more informally? They have some of the best beer in the US and on a week night is fairly quiet.