February meetup

We've got a couple of great speakers lined up for the February meetup (details below), but we're doing a couple of things different this time:

1. As an experiment, we're holding this meetup on a Tuesday (this Tuesday, February 24). This is to avoid conflicts with the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Ruby meetups, both of which meet on Thursdays. One or the other has conflicted with our last four meetings, and this way we avoid the problem altogether. (And, of course, one of them meets this Thursday, 2/26.)

2. Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to find a food sponsor for this meetup. This means that we will not be serving dinner, though LinkedIn will still provide drinks and snacks.

Without further ado:

Silicon Valley Rails meetup
Tuesday, February 24
LinkedIn Headquarters
2029 Stierlin Ct
Mountain View, CA 94043

Speakers:

Adam Blum from Rhomobile

Building Native Mobile Apps in Ruby

Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications for all major smartphone devices. These applications work with synchronized local data and also take advantage of native device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera. Yet you write the majority of your interface with high productivity in HTML and Ruby. Rhodes allows you to write an app once and it will then run on all iPhone, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry, Symbian and Android smartphones. In this session we'll quickly build a sample app for all mobile devices, from scratch, in minutes.

Ikai Lan from LinkedIn

JRuby on Rails - The good, the bad and the ugly

We'll be giving a short talk about our experiences with JRuby on Rails and our particular setup using Warbler and Glassfish. We're confident that JRuby on Rails is easily the most performant production deployment for Rails applications out there, but developers should be aware of the gotchas involved. (We'll highlight the gotchas).