Ruby on Rails Oceania

Just in time for this meetup, here are the notes from the last one! (Hey, it’s better than my usual timeframe of not at all.)

• Monkey patching is bad is the new Zed Shaw rant (and should be called Duck Punching anyway)
• rush = Ruby shell replacement
• If you’re thinking about using Mephisto or something, they’re crap, so use Enkiblog instead (says Xavier, who’s not at all biased)
• alias_method_chain :alias_method_chain, :awesome (or, how I learned to stop worrying and made Python nation and anyone else afraid of monkey-patching my bitch)
• MacRuby
• JRuby 1.1 release candidate 2: lots of bugfixes
• Rails app in a single file
• Rubinius sprint next weekend in Sydney is all sold out! Yay! (Dylan might open up a few more spots)
  • Marcus is trying to organise drinks with Evan one night next week when he’s in Melbourne. He’ll post to the list. (Yep - he did.)
  • Marcus will give us a bit of a summary next meeting. (Yep - he will.)
• Github is now open for business (if you suck up to DrNic for an invite)
• Heroku lets you build and deploy a Rails app entirely in the browser, or you can use your own tools. Uses Amazon cloud for hosting - goal is to pay for hosting by usage.
• JAOO conferences in Brissie and Sydney, and they’re looking for Ruby/Rails people to talk