ATLRUG Community Events -
July 2016

July.18@7pm: Ruby Hack: See ATLRUG Meetup site for details. Note that AIR/Pair Programming is merged with Ruby Hack.

June.21@7pm: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup Site for details.

No Meetings in July: Civic Hack Night

Congratulation to Sherri and Anitha who just started this year's Rails Girls Summer of Code program.

RailsConf-Related News

RailsConf 2017 will be in Phoenix, AZ from April 25-27, 2017!

RailsConf 2016 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2016

Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems, Rubygems.org at: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together

Upstream Rails
Announcements July 2016

Finally Rails 5.0.0 WOW.http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/6/30/Rails-5-0-final

Rails Turbolinks 5 Officially Released (now 5.0.0)

Coffee-rails updated to latest gem version.

Removed more github: lines in Rails 5 Gemfiles.

Also new Rails 4.2.7.rc1 and 4.1.16.rc1 versions.Note that Rails 4.0.13 was last released in August of 2014 !!!

Now we have Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 version (My Bug #25448).Use Ruby version: 2.3.1

Upstream Rails
Announcements July 2016

Wrote up Rake regression #139. (Fixed in 24 hours).

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/25269 Written, confirmed and turned into a devise issue and new 4.2.0 version of devise gem.

NOTE: quiet_assets gem deprecated if repo uses sprockets_rails (3.1.0)https://github.com/evrone/quiet_assets#deprecation

Turbolinks Android: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-i-built-my-first-android-open-source-library-and-how-you-can-too-8a731abbdd2a

Upstream Rails
Related-Talk July 2016

Megan Tiu's Upgrade June 2016 Talkhttp://megantiu.com/blog/8/upgrading-rails-doesnt-have-to-be-painful

https://speakerdeck.com/megantiu/upgrading-rails-isnt-so-bad

ATLRUG Talk Suggestions

Blade Demo - Testing JavaScript Libraries

Adding secure_header gem to your project.

Add hamburger icon to ATLRUG web site.

Add Bootstrap 4 to ATLRUG web site.

Using Rails with Window's Bash.

Rails at a Hackathon Pros and Cons

Status on Rails dropping JQuery

That's It

Thanks so much

MC Meeting Checklist

Introduce Frank and myself.

Thank sponsors - Pardot, Mailchimp, Frank, Venues (Thoughtworks, Tech Square Labs)

Announcements/Special Events?

Companies looking for people?

People looking for companies?

Al's Announcements

Introduce each speaker.

30 minute talks

AFTERMention going to bar afterward.

Clean up Venue/Food afterwards.

My Upstream Rails Status
June 2016

My Upstream Rails Development Technology Stats:Contributed to two https://coders.forsanders.com projects the last 7 months: http://www.berniebnb.com and https://connect.berniesanders.com

Regularly practicing TLC on 89 GitHub/Bitbucket projects (including 17 Rails 5 projects) covering 337 different gems.

500 merged pull requests across 48 projects (since my 1st PR on 12/25/2011).

Helped 6 (rails, capybara, rspec-rails, devise) projects with Rails 5 port. Submitted PR to dawnscanner project for first time.

Details/Updates: https://sites.google.com/site/agilerailsexperience/open-source-stats

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Other Ruby-based conferences: http://planetruby.github.io/calendar

Our Emerald City Rails Study Group is not active for 2015-2016.

RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.

http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch

RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)

Rails Girls 2015 SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-159 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015

16 2015 Rails Girl team pairs selected: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2015-06-04-2015-teams

Personal

Adding Rails Security Engineering suggestions on training?Keywords: Web/Rails/Ruby/Javascript stack, Security, hands-on, tools, pen testing, assembly, C, gdb

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Results of Rails-related 2015 GSOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/9/25/gsoc-2015-wrapping-up/

Interesting Blog: http://readwrite.com/2015/12/11/tech-refugees-aid-organizations

Google Hispanic Coding Initiative: http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-language

Bash coming to Windows 10 this summer. Microsoft release it in Fast Ring today (4/6/2016).

Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems, Rubygems.org at: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together