Ruby is a fascinating language whose star is rising thanks to the buzz being generated by the Ruby on Rails web development framework. I've been itching to try Ruby on a real world project for quite some time, but alas the day job is stubbornly Perl-centric.
To get a much needed Ruby fix, I attended my first Ruby Ireland Group meeting last Tuesday at the Morrison Hotel in Dublin. The turnout was good with about a dozen folks in attendance. I thoroughly enjoyed the two presentations and the followup nosebag in the nearby La Taverna di Bacco.
Olivier Ansaldi gave us a whirlwind tour of Why The Luck Stiff's Camping web framework, which manages to be both very weird and very clever. David J Rice scared us with his plans for world domination using an army of Giant Robots controlled by Distributed Ruby (Drb) code.
The Ruby Ireland group plans to meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month in the Morrison. If you have an interest in Ruby and related technologies then come along a take part in the fun.
