One of the presentations in "East Meets West" session at RubyConf 2009

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3. before do
whoami
end

4. :name => Akira Matsuda
:twitter => @a_matsuda
:github => amatsuda

6. Asakusa.rb

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8. • Regional
• Ruby Brigade
• deep respect for
Seattle.rb
• since 2008

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10. part of Tokyo city

11. • Ancient, historical city
• Temples, festivals
• One of the most beautiful
place in Tokyo

13. • Tempura • Unagi
• Sukiyaki • Soba
• Yakiniku • Sushi
etc.

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22. :Matz-e => “Ruby City”

23. Matz lives in Matz

24. :Matz-e => “Ruby City”
:Asakusa =>
“Yet Another Ruby City”

25. Lots of famous Rubyists live

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27. •ko1
•Shintaro KAKUTANI
•Yuzo GOTO
•Nubu NAKADA
• Maiha
•Shyouhei URABE
•Yui NARUSE
• NaHi

28. Though myself is not a
“superhacker” ATM

29. http://twitter.com/
a_matsuda/asakusa-rb/
members

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31. • Almost every Tuesday
(Ruby Tuesday)
• Somewhere in Asakusa
• Hack something related to
Ruby

32. :winter => Sukiyaki party
:spring => Hanami party
:summer => Hanabi party

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35. • Ruby
• Ruby & Rails
• RubySpec

36. • Ruby 1.9 trunk

37. • Ruby 1.9 on Rails 2.3
• Ruby 1.9.2 on Rails 2.3
• Ruby 1.9 on Rails 3
• Ruby & Rails together

38. Started committing
since the last month

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40. There’s an instance of
.rb in Asakusa

41. • We’re having fun
• We’re making Ruby better
• We’re making the Ruby
world better
•We’re making the Ruby
world happier

42. How can we share this
happiness?

43. • Spread
• Visit

44. • You’re not alone. Hack together
• if there’re more than one
Rubyists hacking together, that’s
called a COMMUNITY
• let’s just name it “???.rb”

45. •
you don’t have to be the best
hacker in the members
•
the only thing you need is a
PASSION to instanciate it

46. •Akasaka.rb •Mitaka.rb
•Asakusa.rb •Chiba.rb
•Tokyu.rb •Hokuriku.rb
• Matsue.rb • Jimbocho.rb
•Sapporo.rb

47. • Seattle.rb Rocks!
• Asakusa.rb also Rocks!
• I wanna see how you Rock!

48. •If you visit Japan, don’t
forget to visit us!
•visit each other .rb
in the world!