First Encounter, Raleigh Ruby Brigade

Rick DeNatale — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:57:00 -0400

Last night I got to attend my first meeting of the Raleigh Ruby brigade. It was an exciting meeting for several reasons. The first reason was the topic. Justin Gehtland Stuart Halloway of Relevance talked about and demonstrated Streamlined, a project which is doing for the UI of rails application development what ActiveRecord does for database access. The second reason was the attendance, 44 enthusiastic rubyists.

Near the top of the meeting, Larry Karnowski announced that he had set up a #raleigh.rb irc channel on freenode for the group. If this turns out to be popular it shouldbecome permanent.

The change came about as a result of last month’s BarCampRDU which was held at Redhat HQ. One of the attendees who is a member of the brigade suggested that the group move the meetings to Redhat, which meant that they couldn’t meet on the same night as TriLUG since it already meets there.

Nathaniel Talbott, who founded the brigade is thinking about a monthly ruby hack night at the old location. As long as they don’t make that conflict with TriLUG, I’ll be there!

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First Encounter, Raleigh Ruby Brigade