Archive for the ‘rails’ tag.
Code + Beer + Enthusiasm = Pune Hackfest
(Last weekend, the Pune Rails Meetup community organized a weekend-long Hackfest to build a Citizen Empowerment App. Gautam Rege, one of the organizers of this hackfest wrote this event report about the hackfest, which first appeared on the Josh Software blog, and is being re-published here with permission.) Damn! Hackfests really work. At the latest [...]
Rails Hackfest: Build a Citizen Empowerment webapp in a weekend – 11 June
Gautam Rege writes: Pune Rails Meetup announces Hackfest: Citizen Empowerment web app for better governance. After the post-adrenalin Rush of RubyConfIndia, we are proposing a HackFest which will get us all together to build a web-app. We cannot accommodate more than 25 people for this – so be quick to decide! Come and go as [...]
Event Report: GeekNight with Ola Bini – JRuby for the win
(This is a report of the GeekNight with Ola Bini written by Sandeep Mukhopadhyay) ThoughtWorks Pune had invited all developers to their GeekNight held on May 25, 2011. GeekNight is a series of talks about cutting edge technology, where you also get to meet like minded geeks. This GeekNight featured a talk “JRuby for the [...]
What I like about Rails3 by Gautam Rege
(This article by Gautam Rege is based on a talk he gave at Techweekend #8. It was first published on the Josh Software blog, and is reproduced here with permission.) This is NOT a post about differences between Rails 2.x and Rails 3 but these are some musings about what I love in Rails. A [...]
TechWeekend 8: Web Development Frameworks – Rails, Grails, Django
TechWeekend #8 (#tw8) this Saturday will focus on Web Development Frameworks. We have the following talks lined up, and one more is likely to get added in the next day or two Grails, and other web development techniques in Groovy, by Saager Mhatre Interesting new things in Rails3, by Gautam Rege “A Django Case-Study: Use [...]
Pune Rails Drinkup: Ruby-on-Rails tech talks over (free) drinks
The Pune Rails Meetup Group invites all enthusiasts of Ruby-on-Rails for their second “Drink Up” event. Gautam Rege writes: This time we have a technical drink-up. We shall have 1 or 2 technical sessions followed by networking. Thanks to IntelleCap for sponsoring this meetup entirely! Venue: Boat Club Agenda: We have 2 technical talks of [...]
Meeting Report: Pune Rails Meetup (Dec 2009)
(This is a report of Pune Ruby on Rails meetup that happened on 12th December. This report was originally written by Gautam Rege on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.) It was great to be a part of the Pune Rails Meetup which was held yesterday (19th [...]
Pune Rails Meetup – Dec 19
What: Pune Ruby on Rails Meetup When: Saturday, December 19, 4pm-7pm Where: ThoughtWorks Technologies, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here. Event Page: Link Details Hang out with other Rails geeks in Pune, discuss what’s hot, learn about the bleeding edge and find [...]
Pune Rails Meetup #1 – 21st May
What: A get together for Pune’s Ruby on Rails enthusiasts When: Thursday, 21st May, 8pm Where: North Main Lounge, Koregaon Park Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required Links: Follow @punerailsmeetup on twitter, Facebook Pagex Details: A meetup for all the developers in and around Pune working on [...]
Why Ruby is cool – take 2
Image via Wikipedia Earlier today, we had an article by Nick Adams on why you need to learn Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails. That post attracted a detailed comment by Ravindra Jaju which elaborated on some of the themes touched upon in the original article. Since it brings out nicely the power of Ruby, we decided to [...]