BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150123T201217Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150407T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150407T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150123T201217Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150123T201217Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250467699 DESCRIPTION: \;\nWe'll have pizza &\; beer starting at 6pm\, so sto p by early if you want to have dinner and socialize before the presentat ions. \;\n \;\n# PRESENTATIONS at 7pm \;\n### Mike Perham: Usin g Background Jobs with Sidekiq and Rails \;\nYou know how to make a c ontroller and view in Ruby on Rails. But what's a background job? How do I use them to make my website as fast as possible? This talk will in troduce the notion of background jobs\, why you might want to use them a nd show how to integrate Sidekiq with your Rails app to make background jobs easy! \;\n### Lightning Talks \;\nJonan will be hosting an ho ur long lightning talk session. There will be a whiteboard to sign up on arrival (first come first serve). The theme is Pokemon so make sure you wear a costume and put Pokemon in all your slides and maybe write a qui ck song about Pokemon and your love of them. Alternatively just show up and speak. \;\n \;\n# \;\n \;\nAfter presentations we'll ha ve more socializing time. \;\n \;\n# Thanks to New Relic for provi ding the venue and beer\, pizza &\; snacks this month! \;\n \;\ n# \;\n \;\nARRIVING BY BIKE? Cyclists are welcome to park their bikes in the New Relic office. Bikes are not allowed in the building lob by\, however\, and must use the freight elevator. To get your bike up to the 29th floor\, enter the building's parking lot by going down the ram p at 5th and Pine. Go past the booth -- no need to pick up a ticket -- a nd turn right. Go straight until you almost run into the elevator lobby\ , then go right again. On the back side of the elevator block you'll see a beat up pair of double doors marked "\;freight elevator."\; Y ou can get up by buzzing in with the intercom\, and saying you're here f or New Relic. Ride on up to the 29th floor\, you'll easily find the bike parking. \;\n \;\n \;\nABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brig ade\, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb\, is a user group for Ruby progra mmers in the Portland\, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations\, tools\, libraries a nd 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 mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month\, "\;Ruby Tuesday"\; -- see you there! \;\n\n\nTags: ruby\, programming\, pdxruby\, user group\, rails\, ruby o n rails\, pdx.rb\, epdx:group=1\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/e vents/1250467699 URL:http://pdxruby.org/ SUMMARY:Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting LOCATION:New Relic: 111 SW 5th Avenue\, Suite 2700\, Portland Oregon 9720 4 United States SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR