---
title: "New User Group: Ruby Underground - Ruby and Ruby On Rails"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/3/16/new-user-group-ruby-underground-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/3/16/new-user-group-ruby-underground-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails.html"
published: "2011-03-16T21:52:32"
updated: "2011-03-16T21:52:32"
tags: [".NET", "Ruby"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Ever wondered what all the fuss is about when people talk about Ruby and Rails? Now’s your chance to get in on the inside loop and join a rapidly growing community of practice here in Israel on this very subject. We’ve…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# New User Group: Ruby Underground - Ruby and Ruby On Rails

By Roy Osherove March 16, 2011 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [Ruby](https://osherove.com/blog/category/ruby)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 16, 2011; technical details may be outdated.

### Ever wondered what all the fuss is about when people talk about Ruby and Rails?
Now’s your chance to get in on the inside loop and join a rapidly growing community of practice here in Israel on this very subject.

We’ve started a new user group for Ruby and Ruby on Rails development in Israel, called **Ruby Underground**.

- Find out why sites such as GitHub.com, Twitter.com, Hulu.com and many others chose Ruby on Rails to run on.
- Learn a new programming language and framework that is vastly different from .NET
- [Get out of your comfort zone and become a better developer](http://david.ing.name/2010/12/01/time-to-diversify/) by expanding your horizons

It is fully FREE to join and I invite you all to join our very first meeting taking place on the 23rd of this month (next thursday!) at 18:00.

### more details at : [http://www.meetup.com/Ruby-Underground-Israel](http://www.meetup.com/Ruby-Underground-Israel/)

**DETAILS**

**Our first ever meeting  will be divided into two main parts:**

- 18:15 - 19:15 : **introduction to the ruby language, state of mind and way of doing things**
- **BREAK**
- 19:30 - 20:30: **introduction to ruby on rails programming**

(no, it is NOT about Iron-Ruby. Just Ruby!)

The speaker is Michael Mazyar from [Astrails.com](http://astrails.com/)

![](https://osherove.com/img/ext/photos1.meetupstatic.com_photos_event_a_c_8_5_event_22064165.jpeg)

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    ### [The first Ruby on Rails course in Israel is open for registration](https://osherove.com/blog/2011/7/8/the-first-ruby-on-rails-course-in-israel-is-open-for-registr.html)

- Mar 16, 2011

    ### [New User Group: Ruby Underground - Ruby and Ruby On Rails](https://osherove.com/blog/2011/3/16/new-user-group-ruby-underground-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-1.html)

- Jun 5, 2010

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- Jun 1, 2010

    ### [Video: Hardcore production debugging in .NET – Ingo Rammer](https://osherove.com/blog/2010/6/1/video-hardcore-production-debugging-in-net-ingo-rammer.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/