ruby - ruby on rails

[Dale Farnsworth]

In article <1136594436.21530.10.camel at lin-workstation.azapple.com> Craig writes:
> Are there any groups in the Phoenix area for either ruby or ruby on
> rails?
> 
> I spent a fair amount of time setting up and running through basic
> tutorials for ruby on rails and it looks very promising. Signed up for
> the mail list - very active. Noticed the development 'gems' - very
> promising. I want more info...any ideas?

Your timing couldn't be better.  Here's a recent article from the
ruby-talk mailing list:

> From: james_b at neurogami.com (James Britt)
> Subject: [ANN] Phoenix Ruby Users Group January Meeting
> Date: 31 Dec 05 04:46:05 GMT
> To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
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> 
> The 2006 kickoff meeting of the Phoenix Ruby Users Group will be on 
> January 9th, at 6:15 pm, at Cyclone Commerce.
> 
> Details may be found at
> 
> http://refreshphoenix.org/wiki/phoenixrubyusersgroup
> 
> aka
> 
> http://rubyurl.com/AKZ
> 
> December's meeting was a blast, and I expect more of the same in the new 
> year!
> 
> 
> James Britt
> 
> -- 
> 
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BTW, I haven't played with rails, but I've written a couple of apps in
ruby.  It's a beautiful language.

-Dale