A Community of Aspiring & Experienced Ruby Developers in Belfast

Belfast Ruby burger

A community of aspiring & experienced Ruby developers in Belfast

Past Meetups

  • BR-21Beginners Welcome

    It's the new year, and BelfastRuby is back better than ever! The March 2016 meetup has three great beginner-friendly talks lined up. Be sure to not miss out!

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  • BR-20Feature Testing, Rails Architectures & more

    Time to update your diaries, as the December 2015 meetup has now been confirmed! We have three great talks lined up, suited to both the aspiring and experienced Rubyists among us.

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  • BR-19Mutation Testing & a Whirlwind Tour of Ruby Projects

    February will be host to our first meetup of 2015 and we can't wait to catch up with everyone and hopefully welcome a few new faces. We've got two great talks lined up, suited to both the aspiring and experienced Rubyists among us. So keep your Tuesday evening free and pop over to Shopkeep's office for some inspiration and practical tips.

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  • BR-18A Special Break Conf Meetup

    We're joining the Break Conference fringe activities this week, as we'll be hosting a series of lightening talks, kicking off at 7pm on Wednesday 12th November at 21 Social. The meetup is open to everyone so don't worry if you haven't scooped up a ticket for Break. If you're interested in Ruby, Rails or just want to discuss code over a few drinks, come along!

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  • BR-17Calling all Rubyists, come & learn about Adhearsion!

    For our upcoming get-together we'll be getting to know the open-sourced, voice application framework, Adhearsion, as our guest speaker takes on the brave task of a live coding demo. It'll be the ‘Hello world!’ of telecoms using micro services!

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  • BR-16Beer, Wings & Code Chat

    After a short summer break, we're looking forward to catching up with everyone at our forthcoming meetup. This month we will be meeting at The Hudson bar, where we encourage you to grab a drink, enjoy the tasty chicken wings on offer and get talking about Ruby.

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  • BR-15Lean Coffee

    Rather than our usual talks, we are trying something a little different at this month's meetup. We're holding a structured, but agenda-less meeting at The Hudson Bar, and using a format known as 'Lean Coffee,' we'll spend the evening discussing development-related topics proposed by you.

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  • BR-14Sidekiq, Ruby & Life outside Rails

    During our next meetup, we'll be exploring how we can use Sidekiq in our Ruby projects to make background processing much simpler, and more efficient. Following this, we'll be looking at how and when to hone the power of Ruby without using Rails. Come along, sit down and enjoy some code talk with a cold beer.

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  • BR-13Hack Night

    This month we're skipping the talks and diving right into code. We've discussed various development tools and methods in past meetups, this is your chance to get stuck in. There'll be help on hand if you stumble upon any issues or have any questions.

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  • BR-12TDD & Getting Started with Jekyll

    This month we're holding two talks catered to both the experienced Ruby developers and the newcomers. One talk focuses on using Test Driven Development methods in your development workflow, while the other illustrates how to get started with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.

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  • BR-11An Introduction to Ruby & Rails

    It’s our first Belfast Ruby event of the year so we hope to welcome back the regulars as well as plenty of new faces. We’ll be holding a few short talks focused on the theme of making the jump to Ruby and how to get started.

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  • BR-10Lightening Talks

    Rather than having one talk, this month we're opening up the mic/whiteboard to anyone with something to say, about Ruby.

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  • BR-9Vagrant - Shipping your Dev Box

    Ruby developers have access to some great tools to maintain their working environments. Bundler, RVM and rubyenv have given us the ability to move between legacy and beta versions for different projects cleanly and easily - but what about other dependencies like database packages?

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  • BR-8Let's Talk About Testing

    Tests are code too but we often don't treat them as such. This talk is about what the speaker has learned writing and maintaining tests for several apps over the years.

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  • BR-7Rails 4.0.0: What's New?

    With the recent release of Rails 4.0.0 on 25 June 2013, we figured it would be the perfect time to get an introduction to some of the differences from previous versions and the new features introduced, whilst celebrating over a few beers.

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  • BR-6An Introduction to Neo4j

    Neo4j is an open-source, high-performance, enterprise-grade NOSQL graph database. Due to its graph data model, Neo4j is highly agile and blazing fast. For connected data operations, Neo4j runs a thousand times faster than relational databases.

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  • BR-5Build Conf Special

    A special, Build Conf Belfast Ruby event will be taking place on Wednesday 14th November. We’ve managed to convince a few awesome Rubyists attending Build to come do some lightning talks (5-10 minutes). The lineup is still being finalised but confirmed so far we have Elliott Kember and Jason Cale.

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  • BR-4An Introduction to Spree Commerce

    If you ever wanted to build an ecommerce website, in Rails, this would be a great talk to come along to.

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  • BR-3Testing Ruby & Rails

    Testing can often be seen as a chore, or something that only testers do. This is an opportunity to peer into the world of agile testing practices were tests become the driver for how you build your code and the code's documentation, while providing a fast feedback mechanism, helping to ensure that your last push didn't bork anything

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  • BR-2Ruby Without Rails

    At our first Meetup we covered an introduction to Ruby the language and one of it's major uses, Ruby on Rails. The reality is though, that Ruby can be used with much more. This is a chance to see what Ruby without Rails can let you do. For this evening we have two short talks that cover different approaches in using Ruby to develop web applications.

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  • BR-1Making the Jump to Ruby

    The first Belfast Ruby event will broach the topic of making the jump to uby. It’s never an easy decision for a developer to change languages but most who move to Ruby and Rails never look back!

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