Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails January 2007 Meetup

Last night was the January gathering of the Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meetup, and it was the best attended and most successful one yet. Brian Hawthorne of likebetter.com and Andre Lewis gave two excellent presentations to a packed room of about 50 Rails enthusiasts. Brian showed us how he used Rails to build likebetter, touching on how they approached template rendering, their use of Amazon's S3 and EC2 web services, and their experience being a Y Combinator funded company. Andre introduced the room to the basics of RESTful routing, just in time for yesterday's release of Rails 1.2. He showed us how to get started using the scaffold_resource generator before diving in to the details of named routes, nested resources and using responds_to to return information in different formats. He also talked about the motivations and benefits of a RESTful approach to writing controllers. Check out his slides here, as well as his excellent blog post about nested CRUD resources.

We'll be doing it again the 3rd Thursday of next month. Hope to see you there.