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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 mee

by 22c 2y 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! :)

User23 2y ago
I agree with you, but it’s an indisputable fact that Rails is why the overwhelming majority of Ruby programmers have paying jobs.
mooreds 2y ago
> Interestingly, Sydney does not seem to have an event listed on this site when I checked. To be fair, Boulder Ruby is pretty active, and we aren't on that list. Just moved to Luma from meetup but have had meetings 10 months a year since 2016. https://boulder-ruby.org/ https://boulder-ruby.org/ https://lu.ma/boulder-ruby https://lu.ma/boulder-ruby
- pcai 2y ago
  Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io/blob/main/_data/meetup_groups.yml https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.... I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
  Why moved to luma
  - mooreds 2y ago
    Meetup cost too much. We have some great sponsors (github, dnsimple, mojotech) but not a ton of cash. We decided we'd rather provide pizza for more meetups than pay for meetup.
    - ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
      Thank you
billdueber 2y ago
I keep telling people to think of Rails as a “ruby-like” language. Rails monkey-patches so much and has so much magic that it’s substantially a different thing.
chillfox 2y ago
Ruby is my go-to language for automation scripts, it just makes it so easy. For web apps I use Crystal, and have started to try Elixir.

by 22c 2y ago

User23 2y ago

I agree with you, but it’s an indisputable fact that Rails is why the overwhelming majority of Ruby programmers have paying jobs.

mooreds 2y ago

> Interestingly, Sydney does not seem to have an event listed on this site when I checked. To be fair, Boulder Ruby is pretty active, and we aren't on that list. Just moved to Luma from meetup but have had meetings 10 months a year since 2016. https://boulder-ruby.org/ https://boulder-ruby.org/ https://lu.ma/boulder-ruby https://lu.ma/boulder-ruby

pcai 2y ago
Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io/blob/main/_data/meetup_groups.yml https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.... I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself
ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
Why moved to luma
- mooreds 2y ago
  Meetup cost too much. We have some great sponsors (github, dnsimple, mojotech) but not a ton of cash. We decided we'd rather provide pizza for more meetups than pay for meetup.
  - ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
    Thank you

billdueber 2y ago

I keep telling people to think of Rails as a “ruby-like” language. Rails monkey-patches so much and has so much magic that it’s substantially a different thing.

chillfox 2y ago

Ruby is my go-to language for automation scripts, it just makes it so easy. For web apps I use Crystal, and have started to try Elixir.