Topic: Rails in the cloud with Heroku

Heroku is probably the coolest and most developer-friendly cloud vendor yet. Heroku is a cloud platform for hosting Ruby applications, but with a twist. Heroku supports standard OSS tools for your entire development stack and deployment stack and a free entry-level of service. Learn how I was able to quickly and easily build and deploy a Sinatra and Rails application to host the ChicagoCodeCamp.com site and my new breakable toy, twatio.com.

We'll also take a look at MongoHQ, the cloud-based Mongo server. Which provides cloud-based Mongo storage and a free entry-level account.

Speaker: Mike Hall

Mike is an aspiring Software Craftsman, the founder of the McHenry Cloud Developer's Group, creator and co-host of the new IronLanguages.net Podcast and co-organizer with ChicagoCodeCamp. Mike has been diving headfirst into the world of Ruby, Python and dynamic languages over the past several months after years of membership in the Alt.NET community. He's currently consulting with Obtiva Corporation and is the developer-owner of just3ws, llc.

http://twitter.com/just3ws

Venue: Duke's Alehouse

We're happy to be hosting our third meeting at Duke's Alehouse. http://thedukeabides.com Duke's is a great local pub and kitchen, a personal favorite lunch and dinner spot for my family as well as a great place to kickback with a microbrew at the bar. My recommendation, the Black'n'Bleu burger with Weihenstephaner Weissbier.

Additional Information:

The event kicks off at 6:30 and we typically begin the presentation around 7:00. The presentation can last up to an hour and we have the room until 8:30. After then we can move the conversation to the Duke's bar downstairs.

We're also looking for sponsors to help offset costs and grow the group with advertising and growth. Please contact Mike Hall mdh@clouddevelopersgroup.com if you are interested in sponsorship.