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Rails 3.1 HackFest

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I've been hitting the rails blog twice a day for the last three weeks waiting for 3.1 to be released.

Lets get involved and squash some bugs!

New York hackers will gather on July 24 for a Rails 3.1 hackfest. RSVP http://www.meetup.com/ruby-75/events/25578641/

Are there any IRL hackfests for the Seattle area planned?

Not sure if you've ever checked it out, but the seattle.rb meetings on Tuesdays at Vivace on Broadway are usually well attended, and both Aaron Patterson and Eric Hodel are usually there. It's like having a superstar Ruby/Rails team at your fingertips, and everyone is super helpful.

This is a great idea. 3.1 is way more 'breaky' than I'd expect from a point release, but the new features are great. Let's make it an awesome release!

What major issues are you having?

I'm curious as well. While I haven't upgraded any older projects, I started a new project on 3.1.rc4 several weeks ago and (besides deprecation warnings for some testing tools) have had very few problems that grabbing a newer gem couldn't fix.

There are significant changes that I wouldn't normally have expected in a point release.

To your point, the community has rushed to support many of these changes so it's unlikely to be a big deal.

What's interesting is that this isn't on the blog page. It's only accessible through this url unless there is some really bad caching going on?

Its at the top of the blog page for me... http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/

I'll probably be working on it most of saturday afternoon in Peets in Berkeley, if anyone is interested.

I'm interested in setting something up in Toronto. Anyone else interested?

We usually host a hack night every second thursday in Toronto, and we're going to move it to Sunday for this. If you're interested in attending (or could host people on Saturday), you're more than welcome - http://www.meetup.com/torontoruby/events/25743841/

Thanks Ryan. I joined up.

I will add this to the weblog page if it's fine for you guys :)

Cool, thanks!

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Would anyone be interested in participating together in Beijing, China?

Anyone planning on one for San Francisco?

"I don’t mind hosting in SF.. we could seat about 10 (with chairs) or 15-20 (if 10 people don’t mind taking the floor…"

mochaleaf.com posted in the comments that they are hosting one in SF.

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