First Sacramento Ruby User Group Meeting
May 23rd from 6:30-9:00pm the first Sacramento Ruby User Group Meeting was held at the Invision Design and Development offices in Old Sacramento. In attendance:
- Ryan – a full time Rails developer with Invision.
- Layton – a Rails developer.
- Tom Mornini – CTO of EngineYard.
- Ed Gibbs – author of this blog.
No planned agenda. No sponsored pizza and snacks. No presentations. Plenty of good conversation. I got in a little late, but the group had been discussing Rails Conf 2007. All of them were able to attend, though Tom went as a vendor so he didn’t really get to attend sessions.
The topics ranged from Django versus Rails to virtual hosting. Tom shared a few items about EngineYard, our local successful Rails startup:
- He recently hired Evan Phoenix of the Rubinius project to create a pure Ruby interpreter for Ruby.
- Ezra Zygmuntowic is moving down to the Sacramento area in the next month or so, which will help build up the local community.
- Using Xen virtualization has worked really well for them.
I’m looking forward to the next meeting.
Have there been any other Sacramento Ruby User Group meetings or is the group no longer in existence?
The group is actually quite active and meets out RelyNet in Rancho Cordova. There’s a meeting July 23rd at 7:30. You can sign up and find out the details at:
http://ruby.meetup.com/132/