Events

16th February – Speedy TDD with Rails (the wrong way) / Sponsored by Fatsoma

Ash Moran will be giving a from-the-trenches talk on speeding up the Rails test loop.

This month’s talk is sponsored by Fatsoma.

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19th January – The New Year Lightning Round (SPONSORED BY MELBOURNE HOST)

The first NWRUG of 2012 will be a series of Lightning talks, kindly Sponsored by Melbourne Host.

Start the new year as you mean to go and Nourish your brain with Ruby goodness! At this months NWRUG, we have a series of 5 minute lightning talks from Adam Holt, Tom Clements and Will Jessop.

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15th December – The NWRUG Christmas Special, Sponsored by Heroku

Fill your hearts with christmas cheer, this month NWRUG is a seasonal talk/dinner double bill!

To start the evening off, our very own Will Jessop (Sysadmin at 37signals) shall be giving a talk explaining why we should all be using PostgreSQL. This will be followed by a very special, three course NWRUG Christmas meal at the nearby Angel Pub.

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17th November – The Lightning Round

We have three, count them, three talks lined up for this week. “Hello Rubinius” by Adam Holt, “Scamp: A Campfire Bot Framework” by Will Jessop and “Meet Hubot” by Tom Bell. The Venue is MDDA, on Portland Street.

After the talks we will have our regular drinking and discussion sessions, so come to learn about new things, and for talk of Ruby, Rails and other interesting topics.

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13th October – The MagRails Social

It’s a social meet this month, with a twist. In Honour of MagRails, the Manchester Agile Rails Conference, we are holding our meetup a week early. And we are sponsored by Engine Yard!

Come for talk of Ruby, Rails and other interesting topics, as well as mixing with your fellow conference delegates.

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15th September – Social meetup

A social meetup this month on Thursday the 15th September.

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18th August – The Training Edition

It’s a social meet this month, with a twist, we will be joining forces with MadLab’s Omniversity to spread the joys of Ruby.

Come for talk of Ruby, Rails and other interesting things that may or may not be Ruby related.

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21st July – NWRUG Curry night

It’s a social meet this month, we will be meeting at Wetherspoons where it’s curry night.

Come for talk of Ruby, Rails and other interesting things that may or may not be Ruby related.

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28th June – Emergency social meet – Meet the EngineYard crew

EngineYard are in town, we’re having an extra meetup to welcome them to Manchester.

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16th June – Introduction To CoffeeScript

This month we will be taking a glimpse into CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles into JavaScript, with Adam Holt.

On The Beach have kindly offered to sponsor the group this month, so free food will be provided after the talk.

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