The document announces April 2015 events for the ATLRUG community. It notes that the author identified and reported issues with Rails 5.0 that were accepted and fixed. It also lists upcoming community events in April and May 2015, including Railsconf in Atlanta on April 21-23 and a civic hacking hackathon in May. The document encourages sponsoring common Ruby and Rails tools and contacting the author if interested in updating the ATLRUG website to move away from a deprecated YouTube API.
1. ATLRUG Announcements
April 2015
● Identified/reported/accepted issue to Rails project that was fixed (reverted) based on my newly created
Rails 5.0/alpha app.
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Reported and accepted 2nd
issue related to Rails/turbolinks based on my Rails 5.0/alpha app.
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Upgraded water-rails gem to Rspec 3.0.
● FYI: Can not use Ruby 2.2.x with Rails 3.1 or 3.2. Rails 5 will only support Ruby 2.2.1+.
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Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org, etc: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow
al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together.
2. Up-Coming Community Events (1)
● Apr.04: Last Emerald City Rails Study Group Meeting: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
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Apr.10-12: VA Hackathon:
http://www.hypepotamus.com/events/forges-health-innovation-challenge-back-better-ever
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Apr.10-12: Startup Weekend/Atlanta
● Apr.1x-12: Space Hackathon: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org - More Information:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/nasa-ibm-holding-worldwide-space-app-hackathon-this-weekend
● Apr.13: Civic Hack Night in Midtown: Details on their CfA Meetup site
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Apr.14: Rails Girls Summer of Code Team Applications Deadline: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org
● Apr.15: (no info on) "James' Intermediate Ruby Meeting" events: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
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Apr.16: Nerd Club: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
● Apr.18: (no info on): Next Emerald City Rails Study Group class: Details on ATLRUG Meetup site
al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together
3. Up-Coming Community Events (2)
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Apr.21-23: Railsconf 2015 in Atlanta (Keynote Speakers: DHH, tenderlove, KentBent)
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Apr.24-25: HackEpilepsy: http://www.hackepilepsy.com - More Information:
http://links.tagonline.mkt5943.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTE3NjY1MTgS1&r=NzgyNzM4OTI1MjYS1&
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May.09: Fulton County Schools Mobile Appathon:
https://s08.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=15219741911429243700&PG=1521974182300&Info
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Jun.6-7: National Day of Civic Hacking Hackathon (no info on Atlanta event)
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ATLRUG web site (atlrug/atlrug4 repo) needs someone to move away from youtube_it gem
(based on youtube api v2). Contact me if you would like to work on this project. EOL is
4/20/2015. http://www.sitepoint.com/youtube-api-version-3-rails More details at:
https://sites.google.com/site/ytdataapiv2eolemail
al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together