Agenda

Brent Snook: A trio of gems

Brent offered to talk about one or more of the following three gems he's been working on:

• baldrick - used for gluing stuff together; can be used to monitor RSS among other things
• numerouno - English natural language parser for numbers ('seventy seven'.as_number == 77)
• bumps - used to pull in Cucumber features from another source and also push the results of a run

There was most interest in bumps but if you get on our mailing list you can let him know which you'd rather hear more about.

Tom Stuart : Enumerators

During our last meeting, Tom was surprised by how many people (both Ruby newbies and "Rails not Ruby" programmers) were asking questions about Enumerable, e.g. what map/inject/zip etc do. Tom has massive functional chops and is going to give a talk that starts with this and then expands into a rant about programming in a functional style.