http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7121 <pre>Hi Eric, I would definitely be interested. I've been doing TDD in Rails and Ruby for about 1.5 years, and it's awesome! Unfortunately, Rails makes testing difficult sometimes, to say the least. I think the project idea is a must, or people will just get bored. Kevin Ball and I did a one-day hackathon last year, and it was a pretty cool little project. I don't think he did anything with it, so it might be a good candidate for the project. Let me know if there is any interest and I can ping him to see if it's alright to use, if you decide to go that route. The Rails app was built to use the Twilio API to track how far people are away from an event, like a house party or a bus tour leaving using SMS (and possibly GPS). That way, if someone is running late, they can send custom or pre-defined messages to the organizers about their status so that everyone can plan accordingly. It was a neat little app. I love the idea of getting together with other testing enthusiasts. I'm in! I would say schedule one meeting first for an introduction, then figure out who is interested in continuing and how often they want to meet. Regards, - Adam On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric MacAdie &lt;emacadie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: </pre> Adam Grant 2012-05-23T18:15:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7120 <pre>Quoting Eric MacAdie &lt;emacadie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;: It would be interesting to see if your group found the RSpec book more stimulating than the LA Ruby Study group did. Don't get me wrong, it was a good book. But without a project we were all in the middle of, we didn't find it very converstaion provoking. In fact, we were sufficiently disstatisfied with the experience of just reading the book, we took a couple months and just tried to do a group project via BDD with cucumber and rspec. Working on a project and using Cucumber as a design tool was pretty interesting. But ultimately we couldn't really make a lot of progress while just working on things once a week. So the group recently went back to being a reading group and is now trying to get more folks into the Rails community by teaching Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails.. Just our group's experience. Let us know how things go for your group. </pre> Cynthia Kiser 2012-05-23T17:51:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7119 <pre> I was a Java developer, and I am now transitioning to Ruby and/on Rails. I went through Code Academy here in Chicago to help me focus and become more ingrained in the Ruby community here. A lot of the other students were new to development, so there were a lot of things that could not be covered in detail. One topic that was skimmed over was testing. I have mentioned that I would like to start an RSpec study group here, and I would like some advice on how to go about it. (I should probably call it a "Ruby Testing Study Group", but I first used the term "RSpec Study Group", and it kind of stuck.) One possibility is to have some people go through "The RSpec Book", perhaps covering a chapter a week or something like that. The disadvantage is that if someone misses a week, they might be left behind by the rest. One person suggested meeting one a week, and perhaps for the first week go over a chapter in "The RSpec Book", the next week having a hack night where the group writes some tests for someone's project/app, and perhaps a third week someone could give a lecture/Q&amp;A about their thoughts on testing (there seem to be a lot of strong opinions out there). Does anyone have any thoughts/advice? - Eric MacAdie </pre> Eric MacAdie 2012-05-21T17:33:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7118 <pre>There is an Upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course in Orange County June 4 - 5. You can register online at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2809887449 *Platinum|Edge: *A decade of agile expertise Certified ScrumMaster Training in Orange County, CA Sixteen (16) PDUs toward PMI's PMP and PMI-ACP certifications by a PMI Registered Education Provider® June 4 - June 5 (Two-Day Course) 8:00AM to 5:00PM DoubleTree Club by Hilton Hotel Orange County Airport 7 Hutton Centre Drive Santa Ana, CA 92707 Register Online: http://www.platinumedge.com/training *Go Platinum- and experience what world-class training can do.* Our immersive instructional techniques teach you Scrum by having you do Scrum- just as it is done in the real world. A small sampling of what you'll get: • Certified ScrumMaster training by Mr. Agile® - the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) selected by Wiley and Sons to author their iconic “*Agile Project Management for Dummies*” series. • All class materials for this highly-interactive class, with examples and exercises that truly enable understanding of Scrum, by one of the few agile consulting firms that have been in business for over a decade • Post-course assessment and Certified ScrumMaster (*CSM*) registration for each participant with the Scrum Alliance • Sixteen (*16*)* **PDUs* toward PMI’s PMP and PMI-ACP certifications by a PMI Registered Education Provider® • Two-year membership for each class participant with the Scrum Alliance • A 132-page student guide for note taking and future reference </pre> georgemagdaleno 2012-05-23T00:05:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7117 <pre>Hi SD Ruby. Just wanted to let everyone know Storenvy is hiring engineers. http://www.storenvy.com/ I recently decided to take the leap and move to SF to work here, definitely miss SD but things have been great so far. Anyways, we have a really fun team here, great benefits, an awesome office, and are about to raise an A round so there's still time to get in on the bottom floor. More info can be found here.. http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/storenvy/senior-rails-engineer/cye2XkzaSr4z_PeJe4bk1X Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! Ben </pre> Benjamin Koonse 2012-05-22T19:58:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7116 <pre> Alright; I'll see if I can put something together. I can't claim to use all the advanced features of Postgres, but I do understand most of them. I'll put together a Postgres grab bag talk, then. Maybe I'll just keep doing a few features every month until you're all sick of me. :-) </pre> Guyren Howe 2012-05-21T18:27:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7115 <pre>+1 I am using postgres (on heroku) and I do feel there is a lot more I could get out of it. For example, at the end of your talk there was a in-passing mention of postgres schemas, which I had no idea about, and it turns out they might be the ticket to an app I am converting to multi-tenant. Anyway, I am up for more postgres stuff. </pre> Ylan Segal 2012-05-21T17:01:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7114 <pre>Sounds like a great talk. I'd also be curious to hear where/how I'd be fighting the framework after moving to Postgres. Not sure if it still matters, but IIRC last time I looked at it (been a few years), there were some issues w/AR - I assume ARel/heroku have done away with most of that, but a general overview of remaining pain points (if any) would be helpful. On May 21, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Guyren Howe &lt;guyren-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: I was surprised to find that I think the greatest interest in my last talk was in the discussion of what advantages Postgres has. While I did a polemic on Postgresql vs MySQL back in the day: &lt;http://sdruby.org/podcast/55&gt; … and it’s still pretty much relevant, if there is interest, I could do something that’s less of a polemic and more a technical overview of the features that would be available to you should you switch to Postgres (or that you just may not be aware of even if you are using Postgres), and what they’re for. I’m thinking things like partial and functional indexes, custom data types, the advanced programming features, hstore and Postgis. I could do a presentation on these features at the next meeting, or perhaps in a month or so if y’all don’t want too all Postgres all the time(™). :-) </pre> Neal Clark 2012-05-21T08:20:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7113 <pre>I was surprised to find that I think the greatest interest in my last talk was in the discussion of what advantages Postgres has. While I did a polemic on Postgresql vs MySQL back in the day: &lt;http://sdruby.org/podcast/55&gt; … and it’s still pretty much relevant, if there is interest, I could do something that’s less of a polemic and more a technical overview of the features that would be available to you should you switch to Postgres (or that you just may not be aware of even if you are using Postgres), and what they’re for. I’m thinking things like partial and functional indexes, custom data types, the advanced programming features, hstore and Postgis. I could do a presentation on these features at the next meeting, or perhaps in a month or so if y’all don’t want too all Postgres all the time(™). :-) </pre> Guyren Howe 2012-05-21T07:44:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7112 <pre>FYI, Certified ScrumMaster Training in San Diego, CA June 9 -10 June 9 - June 10 (Two-Day Course) 8:00AM to 5:00PM San Diego Training and Conference Center 350 10th Ave. Suite 950, San Diego, CA 92101 Register Online: http://www.platinumedge.com/training Our immersive instructional techniques teach you Scrum by having you do Scrum- just as it is done in the real world. A small sampling of what you'll get: • Certified ScrumMaster training by Mr. Agile® - the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) selected by Wiley and Sons to author their iconic “Agile Project Management for Dummies” series. • All class materials for this highly-interactive class, with examples and exercises that truly enable understanding of Scrum, by one of the few agile consulting firms that have been in business for over a decade • Post-course assessment and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) registration for each participant with the Scrum Alliance. • Sixteen (16) PDUs toward PMI’s PMP and PMI-ACP certifications by a PMI Registered Education Provider®. • Two-year membership for each class participant with the Scrum Alliance. • A 132-page student guide for note taking and future reference. On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 3:47:31 PM UTC-7, joon...-kvV4k7f+Y3R57UmHxfTB7di2O/JbrIOy&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org wrote: </pre> georgemagdaleno 2012-05-18T17:11:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7111 <pre> *Platinum|Edge: A decade of agile expertise* Certified ScrumMaster Training in San Diego, CA Go Platinum- and experience what world-class training can do. June 9 - June 10 (Two-Day Course) 8:00AM to 5:00PM San Diego Training and Conference Center 350 10th Ave. Suite 950, San Diego, CA 92101 Register Online: http://www.platinumedge.com/training Our immersive instructional techniques teach you Scrum by having you do Scrum- just as it is done in the real world. A small sampling of what you'll get: • Certified ScrumMaster training by Mr. Agile® - the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) selected by Wiley and Sons to author their iconic “Agile Project Management for Dummies” series. • All class materials for this highly-interactive class, with examples and exercises that truly enable understanding of Scrum, by one of the few agile consulting firms that have been in business for over a decade • Post-course assessment and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) registration for each participant with the Scrum Alliance. • Sixteen (16) PDUs toward PMI’s PMP and PMI-ACP certifications by a PMI Registered Education Provider®. • Two-year membership for each class participant with the Scrum Alliance. • A 132-page student guide for note taking and future reference. </pre> georgemagdaleno 2012-05-18T17:08:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7110 <pre>Thanks for sharing Guyren! I'll be sending that link to a few friends too. Very concise and to the point. And for anyone here that's newer to the industry, his advice on making a small project to showcase your newly learned skills is spot on. -Marc On May 12, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Guyren Howe &lt;guyren-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: </pre> Marc Leglise 2012-05-14T14:07:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7109 <pre>I've written a piece on my website with advice for a friend who was a developers but has been out of the game for a while, and wants to get back in. Maybe it would be of use to someone you know. &lt;http://relevantlogic.com/starting_over.php&gt; </pre> Guyren Howe 2012-05-13T06:52:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7108 <pre>I am a computer science UCSD undergrad student looking for a internship during the summer with a focus on ruby on rails. My main goal is to gain experience working in a environment with other rails programmers, depending on the offer I may work for free. send me an email and will reply with my resume. ; D Thanks, Diogo </pre> Diogo Pereira 2012-05-11T05:10:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7107 <pre> Hey everyone. AppStack is continuing to grow, and as such, I'm looking for additional Ruby engineers. We have several positions available, but at the moment I'm primarily hiring engineers to work on the next iteration of our core technology stack (SOA, Sinatra, etc.). More information on the position is provided below. If you're interested, please email me at kevin-6BfMUpEJkE6SzoZ0mSwLTQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org *The Company* Appstack is a fast-growing startup based out of Temecula, CA who’s goal is to build simple, intelligent tools that allow small businesses to effortlessly acquire and interact with their customers. Our core technology stack includes Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.2, Sinatra, MongoDB and Backbone.js with interfaces developed using HAML, SASS, Coffeescript and principles of OOCSS. Having a passion for these technologies, regardless of your level of experience, is a huge plus. We have several positions available for developers meeting the following criteria: *Responsibilities* - Maintain and optimize our core technology stack (Rails, Sinatra, MongoDB, Heroku) - Write tests and documentation for core technologies - Integrate third-party tools, services and APIs - Develop administrative interfaces and functionality *Requirements* - BS in Computer Science or 3+ years experience - Solid understanding of the full web technology stack from interface to database - Experience using an MVC framework such as Rails, Backbone.js or CodeIgniter - Experience using Git, SVN or Mercurial in a team-based environment - Ability to develop complete interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript - Ability to test, debug, identify and document issues *Bonus Points* - Experience designing and implementing REST APIs - Experience working with MongoDB (or another Document-Store DB) - Experience developing interfaces with HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript - Experience developing mobile web applications - Familiarity with Google APIs (such as Analytics, AdWords and Maps) - Knowledge of visual design principles (grids, typography, color theory, etc.) *Perks* - Competitive Salary - Health Benefits (Medical, Dental &amp; Vision) - Flexible Hours - Weekly Company Lunches - Full Snack and Drink Bar (aka Free Beer) - Casual Ping Pong Games (unless you play Jed, then that sh*t gets real!) - Company BBQ's &amp; Paintball Trips While we certainly value technical ability and experience, we're most interested in good communication, hard work, and the lack of an ego. Local candidates are preferred, but telecommuting is also an option. </pre> Kevin Thompson 2012-05-12T17:07:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7106 <pre>Anyone in North County wanting to go downtown to the hack fest Thursday? </pre> Rick Moy 2012-05-09T22:19:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7105 <pre>Local established consulting firm is looking for immediate Ruby on Rails talent. We have multiple positions available for senior and junior ROR developers. We are a mix of seasoned and talented individuals with a diverse client list and a long track record of steady work. If interested, contact brian at Norima Consulting. brian.runyan-qjTSEqlznxG5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Responsibilities ** Deliver world-class software solutions that people love to use. ** Adhering to and suggesting Agile principles of software development. ** Documenting your work through high level design docs and well commented code. ** Work with project manager / scrum master to identify all work packages necessary to make sprint cycles successful. ** Provide timely estimates for software development efforts for a variety of environments and situations (web, mobile, services, etc). ** Ensure your development is in compliance with best practices policies and standards. ** Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule. ** Working within a geographically disperse team employing the Scrum framework to deliver first-class, banking and investment products and services. Qualifications ** Dynamic personality with a service-first mentality while working with clients. ** At least 5 years experience in medium-scale software solutions for high performance systems with 7x24 availability and near-infinite scalability. ** At least 5 years of programming experience (Ruby on Rails and Object Oriented languages (C++, Java) ** Strong understanding of web service standards (WS-* standards) and their implementations in Rails and Java environments. Knowledgeable in alternative web service architectures such as REST. ** Expert level knowledge of database management systems (SQL Server or Oracle) including data modelling and implementation as well as basic performance assessments and tuning. ** Proven experience with security infrastructure and approaches for authentication and authorization of users in regulated environments. Must be well versed in various ** SSO technologies like SAML and OAUTH. ** Ability to be autonomous and accountable with a passion to learn new technologies/solutions while delivering. </pre> Brian 2012-05-08T00:34:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7104 <pre>Hello; MagmaRails, the Ruby On Rails conference in Mexico is just one month away. Again it will take place on Manzanillo, Colima, a town at the warm Mexican Pacific. Dates for MagmaRails are June 6, 7 and 8th, we will have talks on English and Spanish. Our Keynoters are: Scott Chacon "The Future of Work" Dr Nic " Go go Fast as a Developer!" Aaron Patterson "Rails 4 and the Future of Web" For more information about MagmaRails please visit http://magmarails.com/ or follow &lt; at &gt;magmarails on twitter </pre> mario.chavez 2012-05-08T15:07:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7103 <pre> FWIW, I've always had a couple of different yields at the bottom of the body of my layouts, like this: &lt;%= yield :page_bottom %&gt; $(function() { &lt;%= yield :startup %&gt; }) I'll have a standard javascript include above that. And then, if I want to include different javascript on certain pages, I just drop it into :page_bottom. If I want to run stuff out of the standard javascript includes a certain way on certain pages, I'll drop a couple of lines of javascript into my :startup block. I wasn't clear on what the benefit of all the bureaucracy in this whole "DOM routing" library was, but I didn't think I heard anything I couldn't do with this simple scheme. </pre> Guyren Howe 2012-05-06T05:00:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7102 <pre>Is anyone else using the "The Garber-Irish Implementation" with pjax? The pjax container is (obviously) beneath the body. I threw together this patch (https://gist.github.com/2600165) to rack-pjax (https://github.com/eval/rack-pjax/) to get things working, but it doesn't feel like the cleanest approach. Anyone else run into this issue? -n On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:13 AM, James Miller wrote: </pre> Neal Clark 2012-05-06T04:34:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego/7101 <pre>Hi David, I posted the slides on SpeakerDeck http://speakerdeck.com/u/mleglise/p/rails-3-asset-pipeline And the code on GitHub https://github.com/mleglise/rails-dom-routing-example I believe Patrick is working on putting together the podcast. -Marc On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:25 AM, David Allison &lt;david-L6uVrLwe90ciZhrjMSC1eAC/G2K4zDHf&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;wrote: </pre> Marc Leglise 2012-05-05T23:18:36 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.san-diego