Meeting in one week!

Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time: 7:00pm (that's 1900 hours.)
Place: FreeGeek

Our own David Wheeler will give a repeat performance of his talk from PostgreSQL Conference West 2007:

Ruby on Rails Essentials for PostgreSQL Enthusiasts

Has all the hype got you jazzed to develop Ruby on Rails applications on PostgreSQL? Is virtually everything you find about Rails MySQL- specific? Come to this talk to learn all you need to know to make Rails and PostgreSQL work together harmoniously. Topics will likely include:

* The ins and outs of Rails migrations
* How to add support for foreign key constraints
* Managing partial indexes and other PostgreSQL-specific objects
* Working with views
* Monkey patching for fun and profit
* Supporting multi-column primary keys
* The joys and pains of Rails collections
* Working with time zones
* The antiquity of the Ruby PostgreSQL driver (NOT)
* Enforcing constraints in Rails *and* in the database
* Getting Rails to execute *your* queries instead of its own
* Saved queries for "fat models"

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See you there!