In the first part, Mauricio Idarraga will present us the asset_sync gem and config.action_controller.asset_host. He will explain us how Instagrad synchronize their assets on S3 with  CloudFront and multiple host name to increase the number of browser connections.

After the break, the first flash task by Christian Joudrey will be about #pairwithme. He will discuss his experience on pair programming with a stranger across the world and the tools they used and why everyone should give it a try.

Then, Gary Haran will present us the Practical Object-Oriented Design book by Sandi Metz who was at Confoo this year.

 

Finally, Mikaël Theimer will present us his next project Mots-Dits Québec.

 

Planbox sent me a job offer. They are looking for a senior back-end developer to lead the development of their Ruby back-end . Planbox is an agile project management tool as a single-page web application in Backbone.js backed by a Ruby on Rails REST API.

For this month and the next ones, Shopify will be sponsoring our meet-ups by providing food and drinks. They are opening an office in Montreal and are searching a lot of different people, you should check them out. You can also directly contact Edward Ocampo-Gooding.

As usual, we’ll end the night at the Benelux for more discussion. I’ll see you there.

When: May 21st, 2013 at 18:30

Where: Notman House

Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much: Free

Register: No need, just come, you’re welcome

Questions?: Contact me

To start the event, Mathieu Martin will present CloudFlare. CloudFare is a CDN, an asset optimizer, a security proxy, and more. They can be a great tools for your projects and their first tier is free.

In the second section, Richard McGain will talk about Babushka – a lightweight dependency based tool that could help you improve your deployment process and automate other annoying tasks reliably.

As usual, we are going to Benelux afterward for networking and beers.

I received some jobs offer lately.

François Beausoleil at Seevibes is searching a ruby developer with SQL skills to work on their Sinatra application. You can contact him directly at francois@seevibes.com.

InfoActive is searching a senior Ruby on Rails developer. You can see the description at http://infoactive.co/jobs/.

When: April 16th, 2013 at 18:30

Where: Notman House

Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much: Free

Register: No need, just come, your welcome

Questions?: Contact me

On February 19th, James McKinney presented Open Data Day.

SLIDES

 

Then, Jean Boussier talked about ActiveModel::Serializers.

SLIDES

 

Then on March 19th, Christian Joudrey showed us Ruby One Time Password.

SLIDES

 

Finally, Edward Ocampo-Gooding presented Legato.

 

 

Finally, I really want to thanks our sponsors.

February meet-up was sponsored by MotionEleven. They are still searching developers.

 

March meet-up was sponsored by Shopify. They are opening an office in Montreal and searching people to work there.

 

Next meet-up is April 16th. More information are coming soon.

To start the event, Christian Joudrey will present Ruby One Time Password library. Following the recent Rails vulnerabilities we all know that keeping our dependencies up-to-date is important.  What is equally important is providing our users with ways of securing their accounts.  We’ll look at how two-factor authentication works, a way of implementing it and how to leverage the Google Authenticator mobile app.

Afterward, Edward Ocampo-Gooding will talk about Legato -  a Google Analytics Reports client written in Ruby. If you need to programmatically hit Google Analytics for data coming from reports, you want this. I’ll show you how I used it for a project at Shopify and also point out a few bits of internal Legato code/architecture that I thought were great examples of idiomatic Ruby. Hint: probably some metaprogramming.

This event is sponsored by Shopify. They’ll provide us with food and beers. They’ll also be able to answer any of your questions about their product.

As usual, we are moving to Benelux after the event for drinks and great discussions.

When: March 19th, 2013 at 18:30

Where: Notman House

Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much: Free

Register: No need, just come, your welcome

Questions?: Contact me

Open Data Day is coming to Montreal on February 23th. James McKinney will present some of the datasets available and projects planned. Learn more on the day’s wiki and sign up on EventBrite.

After the intermission, Jean Boussier will present ActiveModel::Serializers – the object oriented way to serialize your models in JSON or XML. You can do so much with this technique, it’s the time to understand it.

Alain Pilon presented Cloudinary – a cloud base images management SaaS. SLIDES

 

In the second talk, Hugo Frappier hacked Gary Haran computer really easily by using BlackTrack and the big rails security issue in manner of seconds. GIST

Last event was sponsored by Bandzoogle. They paid for beers and pizzas. They are currently searching a new Rails developer. It’s pretty cool to work there, ask Marc-André Lafortune. JOB POST

There is a new project called Montreal.rb Office Hours organized by Maxime Camirand. The goal is to regroup people using ruby together in the same room so someone can easily get help. No presentation, everyone works on its own project. This will become a weekly event. The first one is tomorrow – Wednesday, January 23rd.

On February 23rd, Open Data 2013 will occur. This is the best place to learn and use open data from a lot of sources like Montreal city and Quebec government. REGISTER

Next Meet-up is February 19th, I’ll see you there.

Alain Pilon will present Cloudinary: an elegant and easy way to move all image related tasks to the cloud!

 

Then, Hugo Frappier will hack a Website. After all the media attention about the big rails security issue, Hugo will use this bug to hack a rails application. This should encourage you to fix your project with the newest version of Rails or with the hack fix.

As usual, we are going at Benelux afterward for more discussion.

This will be great, don’t miss it.

When : January 15th, 2013 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Register : No need, just come, your welcome

Questions? : Contact me

The first talk was by Nicolas Marchildon. He presented us the Réseau Libre project – a free wifi network in Montreal built by its users. You can have more information or participate by visiting their website.

Afterward, Mathieu Gagné presented 2 projects : errbit and gitlab. Errbit is a self-hosted error catcher project – use it to manage your problems in all your project in production. Gitlab is a self-hosted github. SLIDES

Then, Martin Provencher (myself) presented the RailsBridge Montreal project. This is a formation for non-programmer, beginning developers and advance ones who wants to learn Ruby/Rails. I’m currently searching volunteers to helps organize, to teach or just to give a hand here and there. SLIDES

Next, Mathieu Martin presented Vagrant – a library to build development environment using Virtual Box. Very useful to manage your team test platforms and help your designer to get easily up and running on a development environment. COMMANDS

Finally, Jeffrey Dungen – who brought the beers – presented its startup: ReelyActive. They make hardware able to detect the position of users in a physical environment. They built the TV at Notman House where you see who is present. They are searching a developer to build an API for their system and programmers to use it to implement incredible applications.

This was a really busy meet-up. The next one is January 15th at 18h30 at Notman House. The talk descriptions will be in the next post.

Lightning talk: Come in front and talk about a subject, it could be a project you built, a gem, a ruby/rails feature that you like, maybe just why you love ruby/rails. The talks should be between 5 and 10 minutes. You can use the projector or not, it’s up to you.

At the same time, I just want to update all the links we can use to contact Montreal.rb:

• email the organizer Martin Provencher
• follow us on twitter @montrealrb
• register on the Google Group
• email the mailing-list montreal-on-rails@googlegroups.com
• join our Linkedin group

When : December 18th, 2012 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Register : No need, just come, your welcome

Questions? : Contact me

Marc-André Lafortune will present his talk from Confoo 2012: Back Alleys of Ruby. This will be an excursion through dark corners and back alleys of Ruby, a language so dynamic it is difficult to know what its actual specs are. Is it a bug or a feature? This is what we’ll try to figure out.

 

Martin Provencher will present Strong Parameters, a new feature of Rails 4. The Rails repo on GitHub got hacked because of a mass-assignment bug. whitelist_attributes and attr_accessible was a temporary fix. During this talk, you’ll see the real answer of the rails team to fix that issue. The best part: you can already use this new feature in Rails 3.

I will see you all on Tuesday.

When : November 20th, 2012 at 18:30

Where : Notman House

Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby

How much : Free

Register : No need, just come, your welcome

Questions? : Contact me