[ANN] November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting

[James Britt-2]

November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting


When:   Monday, November 9, 2009
          6:30pm door open. Laptop power and WiFi available.
          7:00pm Showtime
          8:15pm Migrate to Havana Cafe *** SEE NOTE BELOW! ***


Topic: Game development

         Logan Barnett and Jay McGavren will be speaking at
         RubyConf2009 about Jemini, a JRuby game development
         framework. We’ll get a preview of this talk, and some
         sweet demos.

Where: Target Training International offices
         17785 N. Pacesetter Way
         Scottsdale AZ, 85255
         http://is.gd/7h7L

         101 Freeway to Princess Drive; 2 blocks to Pacesetter
         North on Pacesetter to TTI at 17785
         Drive around to the back to meeting room entrance

         **** IMPORTANT ****

         If you have not been to the meeting before PLEASE view
         this satellite image showing the location of the meeting
         room entrance:

         http://www.rubyaz.org/images/tti_sat.png

         The door says "TTI University"

         If you get lost, call James at 480 236 4136

         Note that sometimes the meeting is in the front of the complex.
         If you find yourself round back and there seems to be
         no activity there, please try the front door.

         Whenever possible, any such changes will be announced, and
         the Web site updated, and probably twittered, and then
         yelled from the hilltops.



Discussion, food, drink:

        Remi of rockin' DevFu asked if, for old time's sake, the gang
        could dine at Havana Cafe on Bell and 64th st.

        Havana Cafe was the old after-meeting food+drinks spot when the
        group was first rolling.

        http://is.gd/4yhLm

        I (James Britt) would love this, and hope others are up for
        it as well.

        Yes, it's a bit more pricey than Four Peaks, but consider it
        a once-in-a-blue-moon treat.

        Also, we'll need to get butts there by 8:15-8:30 so the kitchen
        doesn't close and make us sad.


The Phoenix Ruby Users Group meets at 6:30pm on the second Monday of
each month, barring holidays.  Information may be found at www.rubyaz.org.


Thanks,


James Britt

--
www.jamesbritt.com           - Playing with Better Toys
www.ruby-doc.org             - Ruby Help & Documentation
www.rubystuff.com            - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
www.neurogami.com            - Smart application development

[James Nathan]

James Britt,
 
I am very new to Ruby programs, I am having a very hard time getting it all up loaded to my computer. it seems that most or all the files are zipped. is their anyway that you can help me out with this? I have been reading the Beginning Ruby and the Beginning Rails. but I am not sure what else to do. please help!
 
James Nathan
badlands_2004@...

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, James Britt <james.britt@...> wrote:


From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Subject: [ANN] November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@...>, phoenix-ruby@..., refreshphoenix@...
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 6:41 PM


November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting


When:   Monday, November 9, 2009
         6:30pm door open. Laptop power and WiFi available.
         7:00pm Showtime
         8:15pm Migrate to Havana Cafe *** SEE NOTE BELOW! ***


Topic: Game development

        Logan Barnett and Jay McGavren will be speaking at
        RubyConf2009 about Jemini, a JRuby game development
        framework. We’ll get a preview of this talk, and some
        sweet demos.

Where: Target Training International offices
        17785 N. Pacesetter Way
        Scottsdale AZ, 85255
        http://is.gd/7h7L

        101 Freeway to Princess Drive; 2 blocks to Pacesetter
        North on Pacesetter to TTI at 17785
        Drive around to the back to meeting room entrance

        **** IMPORTANT ****

        If you have not been to the meeting before PLEASE view
        this satellite image showing the location of the meeting
        room entrance:

        http://www.rubyaz.org/images/tti_sat.png

        The door says "TTI University"

        If you get lost, call James at 480 236 4136

        Note that sometimes the meeting is in the front of the complex.
        If you find yourself round back and there seems to be
        no activity there, please try the front door.

        Whenever possible, any such changes will be announced, and
        the Web site updated, and probably twittered, and then
        yelled from the hilltops.



Discussion, food, drink:

       Remi of rockin' DevFu asked if, for old time's sake, the gang
       could dine at Havana Cafe on Bell and 64th st.

       Havana Cafe was the old after-meeting food+drinks spot when the
       group was first rolling.

       http://is.gd/4yhLm

       I (James Britt) would love this, and hope others are up for
       it as well.

       Yes, it's a bit more pricey than Four Peaks, but consider it
       a once-in-a-blue-moon treat.

       Also, we'll need to get butts there by 8:15-8:30 so the kitchen
       doesn't close and make us sad.


The Phoenix Ruby Users Group meets at 6:30pm on the second Monday of
each month, barring holidays.  Information may be found at www.rubyaz.org.


Thanks,


James Britt

--
www.jamesbritt.com           - Playing with Better Toys
www.ruby-doc.org             - Ruby Help & Documentation
www.rubystuff.com            - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
www.neurogami.com            - Smart application development

[James Britt-2]

James Nathan wrote:
> James Britt,
> Â
> I am very new to Ruby programs, I am having a very hard time getting it all up loaded to my computer.

First, as a matter of etiquette, please do not reply to a post to start
a different topic.  It's called "hijacking" and it's a bad practice.

If you need help with something, start a new topic with a short but
clear subject line.


> it seems that most or all the files are zipped. is their anyway that you can help me out with this? I have been reading the Beginning Ruby and the Beginning Rails. but I am not sure what else to do. please help!

Those are poor books to start with.

Try The Ruby Programming Language, by David Flanagan & Yukihiro
Matsumoto.   Or maybe Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas.

As for installing Ruby, there may be pointers here:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

If you need more help, please post a new message with specific questions
and details of your computer; don't reply to this message.


James

[Florian Gilcher]

On Nov 4, 2009, at 5:41 PM, James Britt wrote:

> Try The Ruby Programming Language, by David Flanagan & Yukihiro  
> Matsumoto.   Or maybe Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas.

I would recommend The Ruby Programming Language only if you are an  
experienced programmer. It is more an thorough overview of how the  
language works then a tutorial on programming in it.

If you are a beginner, Programming Ruby is a really good book.

Regards,
Florian Gilcher