So What is a Framework?

Rails is referred to as a "framework" but what does that actually mean?

From C# .NET to Ruby on Rails: 10 things I like about you

Rachel has 10 years experience in C# and is now taking on the challenge of cross training in Ruby.

Ενημέρωση Διαβούλευση Απόφαση

What you need to know about setting up a project for internationalisation.

Rails Girls

Kelly, the Wellington RG co-organiser, briefly talks about some of the highlights and challenges from the most recent Rails Girls event.

Debugging - What we can do as developers when things (inevitably) break

Megan talks about commonly used tools and techniques in Ruby on Rails that allow us to hunt out and squash the bugs in our code.

10 shell secrets that will change your life FOREVER!

Some shell (bash) tricks.

Ruby Tricks

A collection of Ruby tricks.

Battle! A! Fellow! Rubyist! Today!

We're going to have a battle to the death at this months meetup involving robots...

Fast testing with Zeus and Guard

Setting up Zeus and Guard for super fast TDD

Remote Pairing with tmux

What tmux is and how it can be used for remote pairing.

Understanding Enumerable

What's it like to write Ruby? Learn how to write idiomatic Ruby with one of Ruby's most-celebrated mixins.

Deploying Rails apps to Heroku.

An introduction to a deployment platform commonly used for Rails apps..

Prototyping Web Applications with Rails

Tonight I want to go back to the good old days of not knowing any better, and show you how little effort it takes to throw together a prototype web application using generators and scaffolds and lots of bad hacks.

Metaprogramming with Ruby

An introduction to metaprogramming with Ruby.

Middleman

Building NZ Ruby Talks with Middleman, a static site generator.

Solving Imaginary Problems

Using TDD to solve an (non-trivial but pointless) interview-style problem, while rolling our own test framework.

Acting in the real world

A brain-dump of communication

An introduction to Erlang

A brief look at an unusual functional language and what it can teach us.

Hunting for supernovae with Rails

Building a collaborative tool for searching astronomical images for supernovae

Afterburner

The building blocks for the Rails Engine universe.

Podcasts

The LAW!

A brief walk through of the Law of Demeter.

Desire lines in web UX

Live coding

Secrets of Regexp

Regexp class is in every Rubyist's toolbox. But do you know the theory behind it, and what goes on under the hood?

The Ethic of Delivery

Abhinav describes his years of running software teams and how this experience has evolved into the way Trineo do things today.

Using Weinre to debug when developing for mobile

A remote web inspector for debugging pages on mobile devices.

Comparison of various background job libraries

A comparison of various background job libraries (Resque, Delayed Job, Queue Classic and Sidekiq).

RailsConf Austin

A run down of the goings on at this RailsConf 2012 in Austin, Texas.

Building a mobile app with Rails and PhoneGap

Patrick Davey's experience implementing a mobile application and corresponding Rails API using PhoneGap.

How to be awesome at Rails

Ryan is the co-author, along with Yehuda Katz, of the book Rails 3 in Action, and the recipient of a Ruby Hero award in 2011 for his work on documenting Rails.

Cantango

A short presentation on cantango, a replacement for cancan.

CoffeeScript

An introduction to CoffeeScript.

Backbone.js

An introduction to Backbone.js.

Test Driven Development and Rails

Protecting yourself from your own worst enemy.

Rails 3

An overview of the upcoming features in Rails 3.

Refinery CMS

An introduction to a Ruby on Rails CMS.