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Another meeting of the rosy dynamic language lovers of Minnesota was held tonight at the Loring Park Dunn Bros.. This time out we had, 30, quite a few Rubyists in attendance. I forgot to count heads but I believe it may have been a few more than last month. A good turn out!

Three excellent presenters made the trip worth it. First, Chris Carter gave a great overview of Ruport. He has two great articles on his website. Tonight’s presentation summarized them for those of you that missed ‘em. Go, check them out, they’re short (but very informative), I’ll wait…

Ah, now then. Ross Niemi gave a presentation on Continuous Integration and its effects on marine plantlife. Not really, but it was about Continuous Integration (CI for those of us in the know). Pretty cool. I’ve never seen it so Ross’ live demos were pretty impressive. Head on over to his blog for more info; he promised to post his material. (for a quick sneak peek, have a look at the live demo of CruiseControl.rb).

Finally, Jon Dahl’s presentation entitled “Mortgage Driven Development” was pretty funny. Jon started by showing us examples from Dan’s code repository. Ha. What’s a dev to do when her web framework makes her too efficient? Nice tips on how to “speed up” you web app when your client complains. Actually this talk sparked a great discussion on how to market yourself a a Rails/Ruby contractor or consultant. Good stuff.

You should really join us next month.