Nov 19: Ramaze: The Underrated Web Application Framework by Luc Castera

Gray Herter — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:07:00 -0500

The meeting will be held Wednesday, Nov 19th at the FGM headquarters from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30. The presentation will start at 7 PM.

Topic: Ramaze (http://ramaze.net) is a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby. Even though Ramaze hasn't been in the spotlight as much as Merb and Sinatra, it has a lot to offer:

Like Merb, it lets you select from a variety of ORMs and templating engines
Ramaze is developed in a BDD fashion with specs written in Bacon.
The documentation and examples from the site are very good and the code is easy to dig into.
The community is very friendly and helpful

This talk is an introduction to Ramaze and show why you should consider it for your next project.

We have some T-shirts to give out (Ramaze and Radrails), and some Radrails books, too.

Speaker: Luc Castera is a curious software engineer, always trying to learn new technologies and improve his skills. He is currently the lead-developer behind ShareMeme.com and has held positions at Verizon, GE, and Delphi Electronics. He has used many different languages and platforms such as Java, Tcl/Tk, C, Ruby, and C#/.NET throughout his career. He discovered Ruby two years ago and has been a big fan ever since.

Luc received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia before attending Georgia Tech to obtain his Masters degree in the same field. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he now lives in the DC Metropolitan area.

Location:
FGM, Inc.
12021 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190

Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will let you in to the building

NovaRUG: Nov 19: Ramaze: The Underrated Web Application Framework by Luc Castera

Nov 19: Ramaze: The Underrated Web Application Framework by Luc Castera