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April Meeting Follow-up

Posted by melriffe, Tue Apr 21 23:13:00 UTC 2009

Summary

I believe this meeting will go down as one of the strangest meetings in CVREG history. Ben arrived early and as people started coming in it was noted the projector was missing. Oh No! While the projector was getting retrieved I did my best to entertain, but I failed miserably. Thankfully Ben and a few of the Viget Labs crew was on hand to talk about Developer Day and RubyNation.

I must say someone did ask what happened to my hair (my ponytail, actually) and if I was going to grow it out again. Ummm…no comment and maybe ;-)

But the real excitement was Ben’s presentation. Ben devised a way to drastically reduce time to display using a combination of page caching, AJAX and Rails Metal. I believe someone Ben trademark it. :-)

If you were in attendance please consider rating Ben’s presentation on SpeakerRate. I’ve included the link in the Additional Information section.

Attendance

We had 15 people at this month’s meeting. The third double-digit attendance. You guys Rock! We even had three brand new faces in attendance. Very encouraging. Please, keep spreading the word.

I would also encourage you to make suggestions on how we can serve your Ruby needs. Remember we have the mailing list and the IRC channel in which to post your questions and suggestions.

Additional Information

Next Meeting

Stay Tuned for details on May’s Meeting. I don’t have a speaker booked for May because of RailsConf. So, if you or someone you know is attending RailsConf stop by and give us your impressions. If nothing else we can all go to the pub for a pint or two. ;-)

Announcements

beCamp 2009 is happening again. If you’re not familiar if a BarCamp-style two-day conference held in Charlottesville, VA. This year is being held on 8 and 9 May. It looked like several people from the group will be attending. I encourage you to carpool. There will be a one-night hotel stay.

Developer Day is a one-day, developer-centric conference in DC. And did I mention it’s only Fifty Bucks (USD$50) [there is an additional $1.25 Fee when registering]? It’s being held on 30 May, that’s a Saturday if you don’t have a calendar handy. The website has additional information, like speakers, agenda, and a map!

Also, RubyNation 2009 is once again being held in Washington DC on 12-13 June. Registration is still open and be sure to use the discount code NovaRUGFan to get $20.00 off.

Last but definitely not least I want to say something about tonight’s sponsor: Viget Labs. They were kind enough to pay for this month’s dinner.

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April Meeting: Ben Scofield & Rails Page Caching

Posted by melriffe, Tue Mar 31 23:01:00 UTC 2009

Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday, 14 April
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Place: Strategy Cafe
Details: Upcoming Event

We would greatly appreciate it if you could go to the Upcoming Event and indicate your intention to attend this meeting.

Meeting Abstract

Over the past year, Rails has gradually (and sometimes quietly) introduced some dramatic new changes. The most obvious of these is the Merb merger, but one of the most important steps on the path to Rails 3.0 was the introduction of Rack support. The effects of that change are wide-ranging, and are often surprising — and include the possibility for new architectures that were impractical or impossible before. Specifically, it is now feasible to build a complex Rails application that can still respond extremely quickly and directly to a specific set of requests, such as those an AJAX service might experience.

Page Caching for your Rails App

In this session, we’ll explore in depth how this strategy reinvigorates a useful, but formerly limited, capability of Rails: page caching. Of the three caching methods built into Rails, page caching is by far the most efficient, but it is also the least flexible. By making use of the Rack support in Rails (with tools like Rails Metal and simple Rack applications), page caching will come into its own as a viable strategy.

Presenter Bio

Ben Scofield is a development director at Viget Labs, where he builds Rails applications for Web 2.0 startups. He’s been using Ruby and Rails for over four years, and is the author of Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects, from Apress. He’s spoken at Railsconf, Rubyconf, Railsconf Europe, and more over the past few years. When he’s not hacking, he spends time with his wife and daughter, reads voraciously, and tries to make the world a better place for web developers everywhere.

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