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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting: Fluent Refactoring, performance issues, Ruby Hangman and more!</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-07-02T19:00:00" datetime="2013-07-02T19:00:00">Tuesday, July 2, 2013 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-07-02T21:00:00" datetime="2013-07-02T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393199'><span class='fn org p-name'>CrowdCompass office in the Ford Building</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">2505 SE 11th Avenue, #300</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97202</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2505%20SE%2011th%20Avenue,%20%23300,%20Portland%20OR%2097202%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Thanks to CrowdCompass for hosting Ruby meetings every Tuesday!</p> <p>PRESENTATIONS</p> <ul> <li>Markus Roberts: Ruby Hangman</li> <li>David Celis and Ben Weintraub talk about interesting performance issues.</li> <li>Sam Livingston-Gray: Fluent Refactoring</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>Fluency is "what you can say without having to think about how to say it." Refactoring is a language that describes ways you can make your code better. I want to inspire you to learn more of that language, so you can make your code better without having to think about it.</p> <p>I'll walk through the process of reworking a 50-line controller action that resists comprehension, let alone refactoring. We'll discover how to tease apart some fiendishly intertwined code, embrace duplication, use dirty tricks to our advantage, and uncover responsibilities that weren't obvious when we started.</p> <p>NOTE TO PDX.rb: I'll be giving this talk at Lone Star Ruby Conf in a few weeks. This will be a full run-through of the work in progress—slides may be incomplete, points may be muddled, jokes may not be <em>quite</em> as funny as they should be, and (time permitting) I'll ask you for feedback and suggestions at the end.</p> <p>This presentation will be given without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Listen at your own risk. ;></p> </blockquote> <p><i>ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby">mailing list</a>. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there! </i></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pdxruby.org/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>