I think in the year 2009 we’ve seen the group grow from a meeting of somewhere around 4-8 people each month to sometimes around 30. In December to celebrate a successful year of growth in the Perth Ruby community we went on a pub crawl down Barrack and Beaufort St, everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and it was good to take the show on the road. Generally we keep the drinking and tomfoolery inside the bounds of our office.

You can find out some more information at the meetup site but generally we get between 15 to 30 people attending and there will be talks ranging from using Capistrano for PHP deployments to Behaviour Driven Testing and a lot in between. In January we had talks on using Sinatra to setup some simple Javascript unit testing, using Sinatra and Rake to setup a simple management interface, and using Soap4R to interface with SOAP APIs.

The meetup is held in Unit 9, 1010 Wellington St from 5pm onwards. Beers and snack food are provided, you just need to bring yourself and a willingness to exchange ideas! The next meeting will be on February 18, 2010.