About

The Scottish Ruby User Group is a collection of people who are linked with Scotland and have an interest in Ruby and, invariably, Ruby on Rails. We meet every month for presentations from members and guests and a chat about Ruby and Ruby Related events. Everybody is welcome and there are no subscriptions/costs involved.

Meetings

Glasgow

We meet on the First Thursday of the month at 18:30 onwards, at the SocietyM: 60 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G3, near Cineworld.

Edinburgh

We meet on the third Thursday of the month at 19:30 onwards, at the FreeAgent Central offices: 40 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8JB, near Haymarket Station.

Mailing List / Google Group

You can subscribe to the mailing list using the ScotRUG Google Group information page. The list is for announcements of ScotRUG activities and general support/discussion about Ruby (and Ruby on Rails!). Feel free to post any questions you have; we’re an open and friendly community. As of the last time I checked, the mailing list has around 75 members.

Video

Videos of previous presentations, provided courtesy of Neo, are available here.

IRC group

We now also have an IRC channel available. It’s pretty quiet at the moment, but I’m sure we’ll pick up a number of idlers now that it’s been announced. You can find us on irc.freenode.net in #scotrug.

Sponsors

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Free Agent Central pick up the bill for our meetings.

Neo sponsor the meeting videos.

Steven Baker - Thursday 8th November 2012 Glasgow meeting

posted 22 Oct 2012

For the November meetup we have Steven Baker will be joining us all the way from Canada.

Bio:

Steven Baker is the one of the key figures in the Ruby community. He is the creator of RSpec, the Behavior Driven Development framework for Ruby, and is often a featured speaker at many of the Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences. Steven has seen over two dozen Rails applications to production development, utilizing his specific skills in scalability, security, and maintainability. Steven continues to collaborate with leaders of the Agile and Ruby communities and provides training and consulting for organizations to improve their knowledge, effectiveness, and manage growth.

More information on Steven, his writings, and his workshops can be found at http://stevenbaker.com

Talk:

Steven will be talking on the SOLID principles.

The meetup is being held at the usual venue SocietyM, 6:30pm for 7pm.

Thanks as always to New Context for sponsoring the venue. See you there.

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