Engine Yard, thanks to courtesy of Eamon Leonard and his crew, are supplying the venue… the speaker… and the beer… at their superbly kitted out HQ on Barrow St, for what promises to be a turbo-charged event.

So what’s all this about Code Generators you may ask? Well, Dr Nic’s interest in this has recently been piqued when looking into some of the magic behind railswizard.org. Make it down to Barrow St on Thursday April 19th (it’s sooner than you think!), lay back on the treatment table and let Dr Nic explain what it’s all about from 7pm on. All are welcome, Ruby fanatics, Ruby-less heathens and interested techies at large. Your plans for Thursday evening just got better!

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…

It all goes down at the Twisted Pepper, which is located at 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Things as usual kick off at 7pm.

Don’t be a stranger, head down to the locale (groan!) and meet the Ruby community on Nov 22nd and find out how easy it to make your site across borders!

On Tuesday August the 30th (UPDATE: the venue is The Twisted Pepper on 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 – directions ) the guys from JLizard, an Irish start-up founded in 2010 by Viliam Holub and Trevor Parsons, will be presenting Ruby Logging … its a gem!

LogEntries.com is their cloud logging analytics for Heroku, Engineyard or your own server, and the talk promises to be an interesting one.
They’ll be discussing some of the challenges with managing and analysing logs on both the small and large scale and show how Ruby dev’s can integrate with their solution via an Open Source Ruby gem.
If you just can’t wait until their talk, you can find more on their blog. You can see that not only Ruby is supported but also the likes of Node.js! Nice!

UPDATE: This meetup has been upgraded to a full-on brand spanking Rails 3.1 release party! And we’re delighted to say Paul Campbell (maker of http://useketchup.com, organiser of http://funconf.com and much more!) has been added to the bill to give us the lowdown on all the juicy features it contains!

JLizard and Engine Yard are sponsoring drinks after the event.

On Thursday the 11th Ruby Project Nights hosted at amworks will continue on their third edition. How does it work? You come to amworks at 7 p.m., bring your laptop with you and once there, if you have any code you want to work on, and maybe get some help or discuss some ideas, you can do that. If not, you can join someone else’s project or the main one we have been working on for the last couple of months, a Rails Engine that provides feedback functionality for your rails app.

As usual, all events are free and everybody is welcome so we hope to see some of you there!

The rules were fairly simple:

Come work on your Ruby on Rails projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. We’ll have a multi-screen wireless projector for showcasing your project or problem solving.

And so we did… well, a bunch of us anyway!
While some people decided to work on their own projects, some others joined efforts to create a gem for rails 3, something that none of us had had the chance to do before. After a bit of discussion, we finally settled on the idea of creating a gem to provide that typical button that you see on the side of many blogs to send feedback to the blogger.

The session was very relaxed and there was a lot of chatting, teaching (thanks to Declan for his introduction to Ruby Modules), and a bit of coding. The end result was a gem skeleton that properly installs when prompted.

Ruby Project Nights will continue this month and on the second Thursday of each month from now on (at least in the near future). Some more work on the feedback gem will be done but as usual, if you want to bring in your own project (even if it’s not Ruby, we won’t let Alan know!) feel free to do so.

It would be great to see a bunch of new faces, specially those of you who would like to give Ruby a try but haven’t had a chance to do so. The floor will be open for questions, discussion, sharing, and learning.

Summary:
Ruby Project Night on July 14th 6.30pm @amworks map
All welcome whether you have a project or not, you are a rubyist or not, you have an interest in web development or not.

Many thanks to Alan for making this possible and if there are any questions please shout. Hope to see some of you guys there!

Thanks again to Jolt for sponsoring the food on the night. And a massive thanks to Kevin Noonan for organising the event, Matt Hutchinson for the video work and Oisin for talking.

Well then you’ll be super-excited to hear that on Tuesday May 10th, Oisin Hurley will be giving a talk on “Constructing Web APIs with Rack, Sinatra and MongoDB”. And yes there will be some tasty free tapas thrown into the bargain too! The speaker, Oisin Hurley, is a Rubyist and veteran of the Irish software sector. So digest what he’s got to say as we feed you at the Seagrass restaurant on South Richmond Street ( directions ).

Just in case you read that last paragraph too quickly – watch out that the event has changed from last month’s venue!

If you’re really lazy, you can get to South Richmond Street by taking any of these buses from the city-centre: 14, 15, 16, 16A, 19, 19A, 83, 65B, 74.

If you’re kinda lazy, you can catch the green-line Luas to “Charlemont”, a five minute walk East along the canal.

Or if you’re the healthy type, get a Dublin Bike from any bike station – there’s a stop just across the road. Otherwise just walk it. It ain’t that far!

Don’t be the one in the corner going hungry, sign up now to reserve your tapas plate! You can still come along if you haven’t signed up… and if you’re nice we might even give you some of the left overs…

“Ruby Ireland” is proudly sponsored by Jolt Online Gaming.
And thanks to Dediserve for hosting rubyireland.com

And a massive thanks to Kevin Noonan for his tireless efforts with organising this event!

Also if you’d like to speak on May 10th, be it for a quick 5 minutes or something longer, then just let us know on the Ruby Ireland Google Group or just let fly on the night!

In his excellent talk at Ruby Ireland last week, Matt Hutchinson helped to close some of that information gap. He’s kindly posted a write up on his blog and made the slides available online. As Matt noted, a lot of apps probably die before they get to the billing stage. And for those that do make it, the billing code is something they’d rather forget than blog about or present at a meetup.

This makes Matt’s talk, and the previous Spree talk by Brian Quinn, all the more valuable. So thanks guys!

Given the popularity of the topic I think it’s an area where there may be a few projects and common bits of code that we can all contribute to, as we integrate more billing code into our apps. This may well form a thread on the Ruby Ireland mailing list sometime soon!

This continues the e-commerce theme of last month, so now you’ve no excuse not to be a Ruby-based Internet millionaire! Active Merchant is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify and you can find out more at ActiveMerchant.org

If you could indicate your attendance for this event then you are awesome. But we’ll still love you even if you don’t : -)

Ruby Ireland is proudly sponsored by Jolt Online Gaming!
And thanks to dediserve for hosting rubyireland.com