Ruby Manor

The latest from The Guvner:

So, it’s time for roundup #3. My bone’s are aching, so we must be getting close to the day I’ll let you all run amock in my Manor.

First up, here’s a plate of meat with all the current proposals and suggestions on it; I’ve marked up who made the proposal, how long they want it to be and how much interest there’s been in it. There’s a load of talk proposals on there which is great, but I need more info; most of you haven’t let me know how long they’re going to be so I can’t sort out the schedule if I don’t know the size of the bits going into it.

This doesn’t mean the rest of you get off Kiera Knightley though - you need to get involved and shape those talks and let me know which one’s you want to hear the most.

New proposals

Tom ten Thij: Cucumber and X-path
Tom’s thrown his hat into the ring with a suggestion about covering using xpath with cucumber instead of the more traditional CSS selectors. There’s been one bit of interest so far, but I figure some of you interested in the other Cucumber proposals might also be into it. Let Tom know what you think.

Chris Lowis: Graphing
Chris has suggested a talk that’s partially an update to a talk he gave at LRUG some time ago about R, but also about data visualisations and plotting / graphing libraries in Ruby. There’s a lot of scope here, what bits do you want to hear?

Matt Patterson: Applescript
Matt is proposing another update to an old LRUG talk, this time it’s about scripting OS X using Ruby. He’s mentioned covering MacRuby too, which there was some interest in for James Mead’s talk. Maybe they could collaborate? What do you think?

Andy: Kanban
Andy suggested he do a talk on Kanban, but there was some movement towards making it a panel / discussion. If you have a preference, or think you have something to contribute to a discussion (perhaps as a dissenting voice - “Scrumm Rulez!!”, “Waterfall 4 eva” etc…) then chip in here.

Richard Livsey / Bartosz Blimke : Mocking the web
Richard originally suggested this talk about mocking / stubbing HTTP APIs when developing, but then Bartosz said he had a gem (WebMock) that did something similar and he could talk about it. There’s quite a bit of interest, maybe we can get Richard and Bartosz to collaborate and cover exactly what you want.

Jakub Stastny : Rango
There was a talk suggestion about what we could learn from other frameworks, and this prompted Jakub to propose talking about his Rango framework which is inspired by Django. It’s quite new so I’m sure we could all learn something about it, but what parts do you want him to cover?

There’s also been a lot of discussion about the other proposals (you can find the links in the last 2 roundups - Roundup #2 and Roundup #1.

Now that we’re nearly there we’ll close submissions and choose the talks in the next roundup. So, if you have a proposal on the table, it’s time to work the crowd and get people interested, and if you have an opinion about some of these talks it’s time to unbutton yer lip and spill yer guts.

Right, I’m off the rub-a-dub-dub for a few cheeky tiddleys.

Toodle-pip.

Google Groups seems to be a bit slow in delivering his wishes, so you heard it here first.

‘Allo Chinas - Roundup #3