Iowa Ruby Brigade

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describe IowaRubyBrigade do
  before do
    @irb = IowaRubyBrigade.new
  end

  it "should be a user group" do
    @irb.should be_a_kind_of(UserGroup)
  end

  it "should meet monthly" do
    @irb.meeting_time.should == 
      'second Thursday of every month'
  end

  it "should be fun" do
    @irb.should be_fun
  end
end

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Next Meeting

January 2009

January 8, 2009

6:00 - 7:30 PM

Speaker

Max Hawkins

Topic

Ruby Arduino Development

Max will talk about Ruby Arduino Development, a Ruby framework for programming the Arduino physical computing platform. The Arduino is a low-cost microcontroller that can be programmed to allow electronic components to interact with computers. He will discuss physical computing and Ruby Arduino Development and then do a short electronics demo.

http://rad.rubyforge.org/

http://www.arduino.cc/

Max is a high school senior who attends Central Academy in Des Moines. Next year he plans to attend the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.

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Last updated Dec 27, 2008 at 07:14AM CST

Thank You

Thanks to David W. Body of Big Creek Software, LLC for his presentation on Ruby and Rails Debugging at our December meeting.

Meeting Topic Ideas

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