[LRUG] November meeting - what'll we do this time?

[Murray Steele]

2008/10/22 Jason Cale <jason.cale at mac.com>

>
> On 22 Oct 2008, at 11:53, Murray Steele wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The November meeting is due on the 10th, and although you can go register
> for it on Skills Matter's site (
> http://skillsmatter.com/event/ruby-on-rails/lrug-meeting-november) there's
> no content scheduled yet.
>
> Over on the ruby manor mailing list we're at the point where we'll be
> whittling down the talk proposals to those we'll actually be hearing on the
> day.  It's possible I could cajole someone who isn't chosen for Ruby Manor
> to run their talk at the November LRUG, but if none of them feel like it or
> think they don't have enough time to put something together for LRUG (quite
> likely given that the final selection date for Ruby Manor is Nov 7th) does
> anyone else have something they want to talk about?
>
> As usual, feel free to suggest something you want to learn about, maybe
> someone else will know enough to do the talk.  I'm also open to nominations
> of someone you think knows or has done interesting stuff and I can go pester
> them to talk.  You can mail me off-list if you'd prefer not to be known as
> the pester-insitgator ;).  Ideas for non-talk based evenings are good too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Muz
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> One thing I would be interested in hearing about / discussing would be how
> people cope with projects that grow out of a single code base .. old age
> problem I know, and probably yawns-ville .. however ..
>
> I've been involved with a few projects recently where my client's have
> wanted to do just that .. (more bang for the buck I guess) ..
>
> Multiple ideas have floated through my head .. git submodules, plugins ..
> gems etc etc .. but some just seem overkill for little config or minor added
> implementations between sites .. yet I still need the ability to do some big
> implementation changes if I want, and not suffer duplication elsewhere..
>
> I've come up with what is probably an intermediate solution .. but I'd love
> to hear from other members who undoubtably have worked their way through
> this, and kept themselves dry in the process..
>
> I have no idea whether this is really a topic that is worth pursuing, but
> its an itch I currently have, so I thought I'd pop it out there ..
>
> Or to turn it on its head .. I could look further into what might be some
> good solutions, and we then decide how wrong I've been.
>

It sounds kinda interesting to me, and in lieu of any other suggestions.  I
think it's also something that a lot of us have to deal with, maybe this
could be made into some kind of panel?

Muz
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