Have you ever had the urge to write some graffitti on a wall? Have you ever just eaten at the best (or worst) restaurant and wished you could tell the world? Well, our next month's speaker's iPhone application, Graffitio, will let you do both of these in the virtual world. Anoop Ranganath from Charlottesville will talk about how his love for Ruby and eating led to this unique iPhone application powered by Ruby on the server side.

As always, food and drinks will be provided.

Please note: Rosetta Stone has graciously offered the use of their facilities for these meetings. The only provision is that non-Rosetta Stone employees must sign a liability release before attending your first meeting. You will receive a copy of this release via email for your review and comment. Please bring a signed copy with you to your initial meeting.

Last minute change in plans for this month. The folks from InfoEther had to reschedule for next month, so Myers has volunteered to give a talk on Testing: Fixtures and Mocks. We will also set aside some time for lightning talks, so please bring your best Ruby (or non-Ruby) tidbits from the last couple of months. We also have a suggestion about expanding the focus of the group to discuss as well as where to meet in the coming months, as Rosetta Stone will be turing our current space into offices next month.

As always, food and drinks will be provided.

Dave Keener has confirmed that he will be making the trip down from DC to give us some additional insights into OpenID. Dave gave a similar presentation recently to the NovaRUG and a synopsis can be found on his blog. A change to the original plans for this month, Myers and Randy will be giving a report on what they found out while attending RailsConf. We will start the meeting as usual with a meet,greet and eat period which can also be used by anyone needing some 1-on-1 assistance. With these two great topics available we probably will not have time for lightning talks, but if you have an announcement that you would like to make to the group, please speak up during the introductions.

As always, food and drinks will be provided. We might have a special treat for the food this time, so please be sure to RSVP so we will have enough for everyone.

Please note: Rosetta Stone has graciously offered the use of their facilities for these meetings. The only provision is that non-Rosetta Stone employees must sign a liability release before attending your first meeting. You will receive a copy of this release via email for your review and comment. Please bring a signed copy with you to your initial meeting.

This month we will be striving to strike the perfect balance between information appropriate for the newbies in the group and the veterans looking for that next trick to stuff in their bag. The meeting will start again with a meet, greet and eat period during which we encourage anyone with a question to bring their laptops and grab one or more members to give you a hand. We will next see who has a lightning talk - anything that you would like to share with the group that you have found interesting since we last met. We would like to keep the lightning talks to 1 - 3 minutes of action packed information. If you have something you would like to present to the group that will take longer, please let one of the organizers know and we will schedule a presentation for you. Speaking of presentations, we have two planned.

For the newbies in attendance, JeffMo will provide a brief overview of irb - Interactive Ruby. irb is a powerful tool often under appreciated by developers new to Ruby. irb allows you to run a single Ruby command or an entire program from the command line. JeffMo will show some tricks for getting the most out of irb that might even be interesting to the most experienced Ruby developers in the crowd.

For the more experienced RoR developers, Myers will discuss Fixtures and Mocks. He will provide a brief history of the evolution of these useful tools to define test data and some war stories and innovative uses that will be of interest to everyone.

Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Please note: Rosetta Stone has graciously offered the use of their facilities for these meetings. The only provision is that non-Rosetta Stone employees must sign a liability release before attending your first meeting. You will receive a copy of this release via email for your review and comment. Please bring a signed copy with you to your initial meeting.