2012 Meetings

January 2012

Planner: Keith Gaddis

Emcee: Keith Gaddis

Beginner Talk: Marcus Mateus, Backgrounding

Advanced Talk: Keith Gaddis, Lossless data with event sourcing

February 2012

Planner: Mason Hale

Emcee: Mason Hale

Beginner Talk: Demystifying ActiveRecord — Anthony Lewis

For many new Rails developers, their first exposure to Rails (and often Ruby) is through ActiveRecord and "magical" incantations like 'has_many' or 'belongs_to'. In this talk, we'll pull back the curtain on ActiveRecord and see what's going on under the hood. We won't assume any prior knowledge of Rails or ActiveRecord, but may skim over explaining methods and parameters which are already well documented elsewhere. Instead, we'll focus on the "big picture", identifying the main concepts and components and explaining how they fit together.

Anthony Lewis is an Internal Tools Developer at PeopleAdmin. Prior to that he was a freelance web developer and teacher.

Advanced Talk: Taming Complex Data Models — Mason Hale

The real-world is rife with complex relationships and arbitrary rules and we often are faced with the challenge of modeling and managing these complexities in our applications. In this talk, we'll delve into some of the "hairier" complex data-modeling scenarios like hierarchies, N-way relationships, and aggregations and summary data and explore some of the patterns and techniques to tame these wild beasts.

Mason Hale is the founder and CTO of TeamTopia, the company behind SwimTopia, the world's friendliest swim team management solution. Mason was previously CTO at OneSpot and Chief Technologist at frog design. He has been working with Ruby on Rails since 2006.

March 2012

Austin on Rails SXSW Happy Hour!

April 2012

Austin on Rails RailsConf Happy Hour!

May 2012

Planner: Tim Tyrrell

Emcee: Tim Tyrrell

Beginner Talk:

Advanced Talk:

June 2012

Planner: ?

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