[LRUG] Rocktober

[Hugh Dixon]

Anyone doing anything they think's groovy in terms of slipping 
ruby+rails into the UK "enterprise" (esp. in the guise of jruby) I'd be 
v.interested to hear from (v. on-message ref. RailsConf, too)

Hugh

Murray Steele wrote:
> So, Alex MacCaw knows a thing or two about Flex+Rails and I'm going to 
> schmooze him into showing it off for us at some future meeting, (that's 
> a pre-warning for you Alex ;) 
> 
> Is there anything else people want to hear about?  Or even ideas for 
> alternative style evenings that people might want to attend (lightning 
> talks, no-agenda reject conf style, hack-days, etc...).
> 
> I know a bunch of LRUGers were at Railsconf, and a few even presented, 
> might one or two of you want to re-run your talks for us?  Or the guys 
> who have been representing LRUG at extra-curricular meetings recently, 
> maybe you'd  like to re-run your talks for us.
> 
> The main point of this mail tho is that I'm struggling to cajole folk 
> into doing something for the October meeting.  As I said, there's Ian 
> lined up with resources_controller, but that still leaves a hole in the 
> evening.  As Tom Armitage said in his talk last month, it's not hard to 
> play with something over a weekend or two and present your findings as a 
> 'hey, this was neat, what do you think?' style talk. 
> 
> Muz
> 
> On 19/09/2007, *Paul Ardeleanu* <pardel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pardel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 19/09/2007, Daniel Tenner <daniel.ruby at tenner.org
>     <mailto:daniel.ruby at tenner.org>> wrote:
>      > I for one would be very keen on hearing if anyone's used Flex and
>      > Rails together, and what sort of hurdles they hit on the way, what
>      > appeared simple at first but turned out to be THE headache of the
>      > month....
> 
>     The Simeon Bateman presentation (today) was pretty good although kind
>     of an introduction in Flex + Rails but, unfortunately, the Monday
>     tutorial sucked... big time.
> 
>      > Superficially, they seem (to me) like a match made in heaven - Rails
>      > takes care of all the server stuff really nicely and Flex has a full
>      > UI toolkit that talks to the backend through whatever means you
>     want.
>      > But as usual, I'm sure the devil is in the details.
> 
>     Simeon seems to prefer RubyAMB over WebORB.
> 
>     Paul
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