Yesterday evening, David and I headed down to London to meet up with a bunch of Ruby on Rails folk, for the first of what will hopefully be many Rails social gatherings. There was a great turnout; at one point I think there were about ten of us in the pub, and it was fascinating finding out what people are doing with Rails - from systems administration and platform deployment tools to feedback collection for large corporations.
The difference between this group of people and those that show up for Cocoon meetings was also quite distinct. The Rails folk seemed more ad-hoc, to the point of not even planning how they'd recognise each other in the pub! I think the average age of the Rails folk was also a few years lower. It was certainly a fun evening, and I look forward to seeing how this community grows. Maybe there'll be a Rails GetTogether sometime soon?
Posted by savs at September 3, 2005 6:21 PM