The Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meetup will have its next meeting on October 23rd, 2008! We'll be meeting this month at LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View. The meetup will start at **7PM**. UPDATE: Engine Yard has graciously offered to provide pizza for the meetup! Come hungry.

Once again, we have great speakers lined up this month. Engine Yard's Yehuda Katz, co-author of JQuery in Action, will be coming through to talk to the group about Merb. Merb is "an MVC framework that is ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic, preferring plugins that add in support for a particular feature rather than trying to produce a monolithic library with everything in the core." With 1.0 just around the corner, Yehuda will give us an overview of Merb straight from the source.

Michael Hartl of Insoshi will be talking to the group about Git and GitHub. Insoshi is an open-source social networking platform built with Ruby on Rails. This talk takes a trip through the Insoshi development process by checking the code out from the public GitHub repository, making a change on a local Git branch, and contributing the change back to the project. In the process, we'll try a little test-driven development as we dig into some detailed examples from the Insoshi codebase.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Address:
2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043

And here is the google maps link:
http://maps.google.co...

Parking:
Please feel free to park anywhere in the parking lot

Conf. Room:
LinkedIn HQ 2nd Floor Kitchen and Open Area

LinkedIn has been using Ruby on Rails for about 2 years. Projects that we
implemented using Ruby on Rails:
- LinkedIn Mobile, a mobile web application which designed for iPhone and
mobile devices which supports XHTML MP. Recently we added support for the
iPhone native application written in Objective C and using Oauth protocol.
- Bumper Sticker, a Facebook application which has 17 million users and 900
million page views per month.
- NewIn, a visualization application created during a hack day which
leverages Google Maps and LinkedIn REST API to display newly joined users.
- OpenSocial Applications, applications that build on top on LinkedIn
OpenSocial platform and will appear on LinkedIn Homepage for the OpenSocial
initial launch.