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Logentries Digging into Engine Yard Logs

@rubyireland check out a blog post by TP from Logentries on digging into Engine Yard logs. It gives some insight into the different logs that may be of interest for your rails apps… oh yeah and what exactly you can do with them to fix your problems & improve your systems Feel free to post your thoughts on anything important we’ve omitted, or anything else you think is of interest to the ruby loggers out there…

March Madness with Spree

March brings a change in location for Ruby Ireland (Dublin edition) to The Twisted Pepper and a presentation by Brian Quinn a developer with Spree. Spree is a Rails based open source E-Commerce platform. This should be a really interesting talk considering the E-Commerce space is crowded yet on Rails there really aren’t that many choices. The choice for Rails devs seems to fall between shopify, albeit with limited flexibility, or creating your own customised solution. Spree has garnered great praise as an ecommerce platform so I’m really looking forward to hearing more about it. Some blurb on Spree: Spree is a flexible open-source e-commerce platform written in Rails. It’s designed to be programmer friendly. In addition to a powerful …

Ruby Hack Evening

Hi all, Due to no speakers this month, we thought an evening of hacking would be a good idea. So if you’re a newbie or more experienced hacker bring your laptop and drop into the Trinity Capital Hotel from 7 onwards. It’ll be a great opportunity to brush up on your hacking skills also get to know your fellow ruby hackers! Hope to see you all there!

Dexy – making documents sexy

This month’s talk by Ana Nelson will be on dexy an open source tool for writing maintainable software documentation in any language, or in any combination of languages. Dexy was developed by Ana to make the process of documentation in software projects easier & sexier, anything that help with documentation has to be a good thing! It’s certainly something I’m looking forward to using in my projects: Dexy is a new tool for writing maintainable software documentation in any language, or in any combination of languages. Dexy makes it easy to combine live source code, irb transcripts, ri documentation and screenshots to write tutorials, blog posts, code journals, research reports, user guides, install docs, websites and anything else you want, …

The heedful hacker – Principles of Secure Development

I’m delighted that Security Ninja David Rook will be giving a talk at the next Ruby Ireland meetup, I first heard of David a couple of years ago and then after going to one of his talks I  realised how little I really knew about security! If you haven’t been to any of David’s talks before && || are a bit rusty when it comes to security you should come along. As usual it’s on in the trinity capital hotel at 7pm on Nov. 16th avec food & beer. Hope to see you all there. Q.