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Description: The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 9th at [Sermo](http://www.sermo.com), 215 First Ave, Cambridge. The meeting runs from 7 to 9pm, but you can arrive anytime after 6:30. ### Agenda We have two speakers lined up this month. [Bruce Williams](http://codefluency.com/) of [FiveRuns](http://www.fiveruns.com/) will be giving a talk entitled "New in Ruby 1.9." > Ruby 1.9 has already introduced a wide range of syntax and language feature changes to the Ruby language (some of which have been backported into 1.8.7). We'll focus on the new features in 1.9, exploring the new object literals, enumerators, text processing changes (encodings and oniguruma regular expressions), new scoping rules, and Fibers. [Francis Hwang](http://fhwang.net/) will be presenting "The API Construction Kit" > Ruby offers a lot of tools--some easy, some advanced--for programmers to construct elegant APIs for reuse, whether that reuse is personal, confined within a single company, or for public consumption via an open source library or framework. I'll go over method_missing, const_missing, instance_eval, Module.included, and other tools in the Rubyist toolbelt that make this work possible. This will be a broad survey including real-world examples, with an eye towards elegance, practicality, shedding light on pitfalls, and workarounds. ### Post-Event Activity There's a distinct possibility that several of Rubyists will hit up a local drinking establishment afterwards, such as the Cambridge Brewing Company. ### Special Thanks Many thanks go out to: * [Sermo](http://www.sermo.com) for providing __the venue, food, and drinks__ * [Engine Yard](http://www.engineyard.com/) for donating a [slice](http://www.engineyard.com/whatyouget.html) for hosting [bostonrb.org](http://bostonrb.org) * [FiveRuns](http://www.fiveruns.com/) for sending Bruce to speak at our humble user group.
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