August 5, 2008 7:00PM topic will be:

Hacks!

The plan for is to hack stuff, together. Here are some ideas:

Hack on the Dallas.rb website. We're looking to rebuild it with Webby, a neat little static-site CMS written in Ruby. If you've got front-end skills, we could use a lot of help here.
Hack on a Ruby Quiz. If you've got a favorite, let the list know and we can work on that one.
Whatever project you may already have going.

If you just want to pair with someone else, that works too. I'll probably float around and try and work a little on the website and the quiz.

Meeting Comments:

The updated website (dallasrb.org) looks great! Too bad I missed all the fun hacking on it, but thanks to all who worked on it! Now to add (and update) some more content. If you have something that you think would be useful on the site, please feel free to pass it on to the group.
For those looking for more information on Webby (the tool used to generate the website), take a look at Mike Clark's article published today. It shows some of the cool things you can do with it.

            http://www.clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2008/08/06#Webby

Geof

If you want to contribute changes to the site, whether they are form or function, just send me your GitHub username and I'll add you as a contributor to the dallasrb-website project.
As far as deploying this, I had a couple ideas how we can make that a little easier. The simplest would be to write a cron job that runs on the server and pulls the latest version of the project from GitHub and redeploys the files to the website. Or, we could write a little Sinatra app that does the same and then hook that up as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
~akk