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Building a Video Portal on Rails

On our July 9th meeting Nathaniel Bibler from Envy Labs did a talk on Building a Video Portal on Rails. I finally got around to editing and uploading the video, which you can see below:

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Cooking with Chef

On May 14th, 2009 Tyler Hunt did a presentation on Chef. If you’re tired of running the same commands over and over when setting up your servers, you’ll love Chef. It’s a systems integration framework that allows you to use a Ruby DSL to manage your system configurations, and then easily deploy them across your entire infrastructure, à la Capistrano. Tyler will be breaking down the various components of Chef, and showing some example configurations to get you cooking.


Download Video (29 MB)
Format: MP4 / Apple TV
Duration: 14 minutes

This meeting was sponsored by Engine Yard, which is now offering cloud hosting services. Engine Yard Solo™ is an inexpensive, web-based platform for on-demand management of your Ruby on Rails web application on Amazon AWS. Usage is fully metered beyond a minimum of $25 per month, so you pay for what you use.

Eucalyptus, Your Personal Cloud

On May 14th, 2009 Thomas Meeks did this presentation on Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is an open source cloud infrastructure that is API-compatible with Amazon’s EC2. In this talk he’s going to give an introduction to Eucalyptus, its uses, how to install it, and how to interface with it using the Amazon EC2 gem available on github.


Download Video (80 MB)
Format: MP4 / Apple TV
Duration: 21 mins

This meeting was sponsored by Engine Yard, which is now offering cloud hosting services. Engine Yard Solo™ is an inexpensive, web-based platform for on-demand management of your Ruby on Rails web application on Amazon AWS. Usage is fully metered beyond a minimum of $25 per month, so you pay for what you use.