Meeting Details
Date: November 2, 2005
Agenda:
6:00 - Rails by Example (slides)
6:45 - Break for food, chat, announcements
7:15 - SwitchTower (slides)
Location:
Fort Washington Holiday Inn (
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Website, Google Map)
432 W Pennsylvania Avenue
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Sponsor: Chariot Solutions
Synopsis
ErinMulder began the evening with a 10-minute live rails walkthrough, and then moved on to lots of code examples for everything from ActiveRecord relationships to validations to pagination. Then we took a break to eat and get to know each other. At this point, there were about 40 people engaged in various conversation groups around the room. Much fun was had by all. Next, RonLusk led us through the installation and configuration of SwitchTower, a Rails deployment tool. This was followed by a lot more conversation, with some people chatting until almost midnight!
Announcements:
Phillyonrails.org can host projects (web space, subversion, etc.)
Need speakers, sponsors, topic ideas, etc.
Group to-dos:
Suggest meeting topics to the mailing list
Volunteer to speak on a topic
Find sponsors who can pay a few hundred dollars for space/food
Decide on a regular meeting time and date (leaning towards 7-9pm on second Tuesdays of the month)
Decide if we should alternate meetings between suburbs and Center City
Work together on open source projects
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