Last week we hosted our first Rails meetup in St.Petersburg, Russia. It was an interesting experience and what’s more important people loved it. Over 20 Rails developers showed up (apart from a dozen of Sphere’s developers who were there as well). We had 6 presentations including two from people who came over.

I want to share a few insights in case you’d like to host a meetup in your own city:

• Have a passion on what the meetup is all about
• Be friendly
• Have water and enough glasses for everyone
• Someone is always late. Have a person who will meet them
• Have a break. It’s hard to sit and listen for a long time
• Be sure you have enough chairs and all equipment works properly

If you have anything to add to the list please use the comment section below.
And if you’re one of the attendees please leave a feedback.

Photos

Rails developers

Mikhail Vaysman is talking about RSpec

Presentations

1. How to Create a Social Network with Ruby On Rails by Pavel Timofeev

2. Testing in Rails Applications by Mikhail Vaysman

3. Sintra Framework by Bohdan Schepansky

4. Database Optimization by Oleg Olshanetsky