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I attended my first Dublin Ruby User Group meet last night and really enjoyed it. This months event was organized by Qamir Hussain, and I hope the format will be a template for future events. Eleven people attended, Ana Nelson and Olivier Ansaldi gave presentations on Radiant and REST respectively and then we relocated to a very nice bar in town for further discussions (and wine).

Ana's presentation was a great intro to Radiant and it's capabilities. She's currently using it in a very clever way to generate a static site for her company. She gave a tour of the various features, showed some small but useful examples of how to create your own tags and gave some tips on getting the best out of it.

Olivier's presentation covered REST both as a concept and as implemented by rails. It was like a cool remixed short version of DHHs keynote at RailsConf Chicago, involving lots of pictures of people sleeping on trains. It provoked a quite lively discussion on the concepts and ins and outs of REST that I think will continue over further meetings.

It was good to meet other rubyists in Ireland, and I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Though I think I may have agreed to do a presentation���

UPDATE: I created an IRC channel for Irish Rubyists, #ruby.ie on irc.freenode.net, come and hang out!