« BackRuby Meetupsrubyconferences.orgSubmitted by mooreds 10 months ago
  • weeksie 10 months ago

    Had a flashback to twenty odd years ago in Sydney when there weren't enough Rubyists to get a reservation at the pub for a meetup so we had to team up with the Smalltalk guys. Ahhh, different times.

    • cortesoft 10 months ago

      It gave me a flashback to 2007, when I was a hobbyist programmer and signed up for a Ruby meetup on a whim, and a recruiter called me 5 minutes later and ended up getting me my first programming job. Crazy to think how much that changed my life.

      • 22c 10 months ago

        Interestingly, Sydney does not seem to have an event listed on this site when I checked. Adelaide and Auckland lead the charge, with an occasional Melbourne meetup.

        As an aside, I dislike the strong association between Rails and Ruby. Ruby can be a fun scripting language. In my experience I'm generally about as productive writing Ruby as I am with writing Python, but Ruby seems to get bucketed into a very Rails centric world of "not the worst choice you could make if you wanted to make a web service" (at least when it comes to meetups).

        Maybe it's just that the web service guys are more likely to need a support group! :)

        • UncleOxidant 10 months ago

          I started the Portland Ruby meetup back in '02. IIRC we had 4 people including myself in that first meeting at a pub. And it went that way for several years where we'd never have more than about 6 people (and often less). Then after Rails hit it took off. I Haven't been to one in at least a decade.

        • pcai 10 months ago

          This list is hosted on github, contributions are welcome: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....

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