[nylug-talk] NY Linux Users Group Meeting 7/19: Ajai Khattri on Ruby on Rails

[Ron Guerin]

Wednesday July 19th, 2006
6:30pm-7:30pm (stammtisch after 8:15pm)
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency

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                           Ajai  Khattri
                               -on-
                           Ruby on Rails

  Last month, we got a look at the Ruby  scripting language, as Francis
  Hwang began showing us what makes Ruby different from other languages,
  and why it is his language of choice.  Now that we've got an idea of
  what Ruby  is, we're going to learn about Ruby on Rails.  Why does it
  bill itself as Web development that doesn't hurt?

  From the RoR site:

     Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized
     for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.  It lets
     you write beautiful code by favoring convention over
     configuration.

     Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed
     web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
     From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the
     controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails
     gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all
     you need to add is a database and a web server.

  Those who attended last month's meeting learned a focus of Ruby is on
  the developer.  It comes as no surprise then that Ruby on Rails is
  also focused on the needs of developers.

  Our next meeting will be on August 30, 2006 at 6:30pm at IBM.
  Topic to be announced. 

About Ajai Khattri
  Ajai Khattri was born in the United Kingdom, and after obtaining a
  degree in computer science in London, came to the US in 1994 and lives
  in Manhattan.  He has come a long way since tinkering with his Sinclair
  ZX80 at age 8, and now works as a web developer and sysadmin for local
  ISP, bway.net after having previously been a developer, test engineer,
  systems administrator, helpdesk technician and IT consultant.

  When Ajai isn't banging out code, he enjoys reading and photography.
  He can be seen regularly at nycruby meetings.

Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be
  given away.

Stammtisch
  After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
  located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
  Northeast corner.

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