March 2009 Boston Ruby User Group

This month's meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10th at Sermo, 215 First Ave, Cambridge on the 4th floor. The meeting runs from 7 to 9pm, but you can arrive after 6:30.

Agenda

We have two talks this month:

Dan Pickett will be presenting "Thinking Sphinx and the Sphinx Search Engine":

SOLR, Ferret, Ultrasphinx, and Thinking Sphinx. With so many options for indexed search, what's the latest and greatest? Let's talk about Pat Allan's Thinking Sphinx, why Sphinx is a great search engine, and why you should think about using them.

Mike Champion will be presenting "Rails Internationalization":

An overview of the Rails i18n functionality and lessons learned from working to internationalize our application. Official Rails i18n support is still relatively new & continuing to mature. Will also cover our Translator plugin we're developing to simplify the process of externalizing strings & testing an internationalized app.

Afterwards, the floor is open for announcements, job postings, and lightning talks.

Special Thanks

Many thanks go out to:

• Sermo for providing the venue, food, and drinks
• Engine Yard for donating a slice for hosting bostonrb.org
• Peepcode for providing videos to give away.