The virtual user group Rubyists of Second Life will meet this Thursday, August 31, and next Thursday, September 7, at 6:00 pm PST.
This Thursday, Theodore Polonsky will be presenting on simply_restful and the new RESTful routes in Rails Core, and Polypus Watts will be presenting on DRP: evolutionary/social programming for interactive/design tasks in Ruby.
Second Life is a virtual 3D world and society. Basic memberships are free.
There are hefty bandwidth / computer hardware / graphics card requirements for SL, check http://www.secondlife.com for more details.
After downloading the Client, and creating your Avatar, you can use this Second Life URL (SLurl) to "teleport" to the Rubyists of Second Life meeting area:
The RoSL group members will help you get acclimated to Second Life. Contact avatar StarJunky Fermi at starjunky@gmail.com to arrange for an introductory tour of SL.