http://www.novarug.org/articles/2010/01/27/feb-3-shoutreel-and-grant en-us 40 Northern Virginia Ruby User's Group <p> <b>Agenda:</b> Ammar Yousuf will present a behind the scenes look at Shoutreel, a micro-forum site and Jeff Kunkle will present Grant, a Rails security plug-in at the February meeting of the Northern VA Ruby Users Group. <p> <b>When at Where:</b> Feb 3rd from 6:30 PM - 9 PM at FGM, 12021 Sunset Hills Rd, Suite 400, Reston, VA 20175 <p>Pizza and sodas at 6:30. Presentations start at 7 PM <p><b>Sponsored by:</b> <p><a href="http://www.nearinfinity.com/"><img src="http://www.nearinfinity.com/home/images/niclogo.png" alt="Near Infinity"></a> <p> <b>Register:</b> <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/546628982">Click Here!</a> <p> <b>Description:</b> Yousuf will present an overview of the design and features of Shoutreel, a micro-forum Rails site. This talk will include a discussion of the technical aspects of Shoutreel, including design choices and solutions. <p>Jeff Kunkle will present <a href="http://github.com/nearinfinity/grant">Grant</a>, a Ruby on Rails plugin for securing access to your ActiveRecord model objects by declaratively specifying rules permitting CRUD operations on your models. This short talk will discuss the reasons for creating Grant and provide some short code examples demonstrating how to use it. <p> <b>Speakers:</b> Ammar Yousuf is the principal designer and developer of <a href="http://www.shoutreel.com/">Shoutreel</a>. <p>Jeff Kunkle is the Chief Technology Officer for Near Infinity and is the author of the <a href="http://github.com/nearinfinity/grant">Grant plug-in</a> for Rails. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:35:00 -0500 urn:uuid:63be7a2e-47a8-4e4c-8e45-905708bee437 Gray Herter http://www.novarug.org/articles/2010/01/27/feb-3-shoutreel-and-grant Meetings Is this still happening due to the weather? Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:09:15 -0500 urn:uuid:80b89274-c5df-49e4-a407-a904c39c4568 http://www.novarug.org/articles/2010/01/27/feb-3-shoutreel-and-grant#comment-103 Date is fixed now. Feb 3rd. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:07:36 -0500 urn:uuid:fd154e52-6359-475a-abd6-a989ddd7f673 http://www.novarug.org/articles/2010/01/27/feb-3-shoutreel-and-grant#comment-102 Yeah! Shoutreel! BTW, the eventbrite date says it's March 3. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:56:14 -0500 urn:uuid:8e6f77ba-5ed0-4084-ba9f-1810260dae97 http://www.novarug.org/articles/2010/01/27/feb-3-shoutreel-and-grant#comment-101