Show notes from Singapore Ruby Brigade meet up on 11th May 2011

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== Meetup ==
Date: 11th May 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street

== Food and Beer ==
Many thanks to Carl from Pivotal Labs for providing delicious Arabic snacks and ice cold Wychcrafts, Asahis and Hoegardens from Mabuk Monkey.

And also special thanks to Meng for serving us flame thrown carnival.

== RedDotRubyConf ==
Cheeaun's ultimate links
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1aWZqJVeTk1T7Ll2SeHchKM8X8Dj7L3kXkWMXb4lBPys&pli=1

== Rails 3.1 ==
Rails 3.1 beta 1 changelog
https://gist.github.com/958283

Official Coffeescript page - good documentation
http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

EPIC (and funny) comment thread on Github
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9f09aeb8273177fc2d09ebdafcc76ee8eb56fe33

SASS yes, HAML no
http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-1-adopts-coffeescript-jquery-sass-and-controversy-4669.html

Qn: How would Coffeescript affect my existing apps?
Qn: Does Heroku support Coffeescript?
http://drnicwilliams.com/2010/03/15/using-coffeescript-in-rails-and-even-on-heroku/

== Coffee-resque (pronounced "Coffee-rescue") ==
Zan's slides and demo
http://liangzan.github.com/coffee-resque-demo/

References:
Official Resque page
https://github.com/defunkt/resque

History behind Resque
https://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque

"Fast-fail development" with Resque - Very clear tutorial on using Resque
http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/11/08/do-you-know-resque/

== Other interesting stuff ==
Stylus for CSS
http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/
https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus
https://github.com/lucasmazza/stylus_rails

SuperHappyDevHouse Singapore, 14th May
http://shdh.sg

Helping you PUSH
Jugganaut - http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/
Pusher - http://pusher.com/
Pubnub - http://www.pubnub.com/
CometD - http://cometd.org/
Example of socketio+nodejs - https://github.com/alvinsj/nodechat