May monthly meeting
Organized by Igal Koshevoy
Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 from 7–9pm
Location: CubeSpace, CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand, Portland, OR
Agenda
The next meeting of the Portland Ruby Brigade is coming up, and this
meeting’s content should be of interest to both Ruby and Python programmers.
PRESENTATIONS:
- AppDrop: An open alternative to Google App Engine
SUMMARY: AppDrop provides a proof-of-concept system for easily hosting
and scaling web applications. It demonstrates how applications written
for Google’s App Engine can be ported to other platforms. AppDrop runs
on Amazon EC2, currently hosts Python applications, and uses Ruby on
Rails and ngnix as its backend. All the AppDrop code is open source and
contributions are welcome. For more information, please visit: appdrop.com
SPEAKER: Chris Anderson is the author of AppDrop, creator of Grabb.it,
and founder of the independent music store Music For Dozens.
- SortableColumns: A Rails gem/plugin for easing the pain of creating
sortable HTML tables.
SUMMARY: SortableColumns uses flexible YAML config files to specify the
nature of the columns in an HTML table. It can be used with any
ActiveRecord result set (works with custom SQL fields) and multiple
data-set definitions can be specified per model. Currently supports
plain HTML tables or it can be used with the YUI4Rails gem/plugin to
easily create YUI DataTables. You can see a demo of the library at
sortablecolumns.heroku.com/ and get the Gem from
rubyforge.org/projects/sortablecolumns/ . Bryan can also talk about his
limited experience with the Heroku application hosting service if there
is interest.
SPEAKER: Bryan Donovan works at Sun Microsystems, where he turns tedious
spreadsheet-driven processes into automated Rails-driven processes. He
also developed UrbanDrinks.com, the sortable stats pages at The Hardball
Times baseball site, and the rubystats gem. He has nothing to do with
Brian Donovan at brian.maybeyoureinsane.net/blog/category/ruby/