Atlanta Ruby Users Group Announcements for February 2016

1. ATLRUG Announcements –
Feb. 2016 (1 of 2)
● 24PullRequests (Dec.1-24, 2015) initiative resulted in 15,045 Pull Requests or
~627/day. I provided support help during project initiative. Contributed 53 pull requests
myself.
● 28 Google Code-in 2016 Winners announced:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/02/announcing-google-code-in-2015-winners.htm
● Rails Conference registration is open: http://www.railsconf.com (Scholarship deadline
is Feb.28)
● Other Ruby-based conferences: http://planetruby.github.io/calendar
WIFI:
● Network: RSG Event
● Password:
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open Source Developer

2. ATLRUG Announcements –
Feb. 2016 (2 of 2)
●
Ruby: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-released
– Ruby Releases: 2.0.0-p648, 2.1.8, 2.2.4, 2.30
● Rails: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/2/Rails-5-0-beta2
– Actioncable [5.0.0.beta1/beta1.1, beta2] released. Puma appears to replace WEBrick for Rails
5. Turbolinks split into 2 project and released 5.0.0.beta1. Spring-watcher-listen gem added to
“rails new”.
●
http://www.sitepoint.com/action-cable-and-websockets-an-in-depth-tutorial
●
https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
– Rails Releases: 5.0.0.beta1, 5.0.0.beta1.1, 5.0.0.beta2, 3.2.22.1, 4.1.14.1, 4.2.5.1
● Note that Rails 4.0.x or pre-3.2.x did not get security upgrade.
– Rails 5/RC1 expected on Feb.16 then Rails 5/Final on Feb.23.
– Now rspec and rspec-rails has a 5.0.0.beta1 release.
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open Source Developer

3. ATLRUG Community Events -
Feb. 2016 (1 of 2)
● Feb.08@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night at AT&T Foundry/ Midtown: See
Code-for-America/Atlanta Meetup site
● Feb.10@6:30pm: ATLRUG Meeting: See ATLRUG Meetup site.
● Feb.17@6:30pm: AIR/Pair Programming: See ATLRUG Meetup site
● Feb.18@7pm : Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup site.
● Now to Feb.19: Accepting GSoC 2016 Mentor Organization Applications
● Feb.23@7pm: Civic Hack Night at ATV (Atlanta Tech Village): See Code-
for-America/Atlanta Meetup site.
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open Source Developer

4. ATLRUG Community Events -
Feb. 2016 (2 of 2)
● Mar.07@6:3pm: Ruby Hack (Ponce City Market): See ATLRUG Meetup site
● March 14, 2016: Google Summer of Code - Student applications open
– http://danielpocock.com/getting-selected-for-google-summer-of-code-2016
– For More Details:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/10/dozen-of-one-half-dozen-of-other-6t
● Mar.14@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night at AT&T Foundry/ Midtown: See Code-for-
America/Atlanta Meetup site
● March 16-17: Great Wide Open conference 20% discount code is ATLRuby20.
● May 4-6, 2016: RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open Source Developer

5. My status
● My “Corporate Open Source Rails Developer” Stats:
– Regularly practicing TLC on 75 GitHub/Bitbucket projects (including 11 Rails 5
projects) covering 397 different gems. Migrated all (but 1) projects to new Macbook
Pro.
– 408 merged pull requests across 45 projects (since my 1st
PR on 12/25/2011)
– Helped rails, capybara, rspec-rails and devise projects with Rails 5 port.
– Details/Updates: https://sites.google.com/site/agilerailsexperience/open-source-stats
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open Source Developer

6. Ways to Giveback
● Interesting Blog:
http://readwrite.com/2015/12/11/tech-refugees-aid-o

7. ATLRUG Previous
Announcements
●
Our Emerald City Rails Study Group is not active for 2015-2016.
●
RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015
– Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.
– http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch
●
RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)
● Rails Girls 2015 SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-15
– 9 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:
● https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
– 16 2015 Rails Girl team pairs selected: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2015-06-04-2015-teams
●
Results of Rails-related 2015 GSOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/9/25/gsoc-2015-wrapping-up/
● Google Hispanic Coding Initiative:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-language
● Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems, Rubygems.org
at: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Rails Open-Source Developer