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Last night I met up with the local Frankfurt Rails User Group developers. It was an awesome night, with lots of fun and laughter had by all. I always find it interesting to meet new people and hear what they’ve been doing with Ruby and Rails.

I also gave a few presentations about Rubinius and RSpec, the slides are available for anyone interested:

Rubinius
RSpec
RSpec handout

Many thanks to Mariano for hosting the event, and also a special thanks to Claudia for catering! :)

Today I’m traveling up to Berlin for the next part of my trip, RailsConf Europe. looking forward to meeting up with so many fellow Rails developers in the coming week!

A few months ago we held a Ruby/Rails newbie night in Melbourne, I presented several talks on the night. Thanks to Marty Andrews the talks were recorded and are available for all to see.

Here are two of the talks I presented, one about Rails’ use of convention over configuration:

and a further talk about Active Record’s validations with Ryan Allen and John Barton:

It was a sensational night with much laughter and fun all round, enjoy!