July 2011 - Posts
Want to start with Ruby and Rails and have no idea where to even begin?
Check out RailsInstaller.org - it contains pretty much everything you need to get started, in a way that is very easy and painless.
RailsInstaller 1.1.1 Demo from Engine Yard on Vimeo.
The video on that site will tell you everything you need to know to get started on your "hello world" website, including using git, pushing to github and generating rails related views.
during QCon 2011 in London, I gave a talk about the new qualities that team leaders need to make agile succeed. It's a very small fraction of what I cover and coach during my upcoming course.
See the full video here
some of the things I cover include top mistakes that team leaders do with teams. most of these are closely related to elastic leadership principles - changing the leadership type based on the team's current maturity.
if you've ever wanted to learn ruby on rails in Israel, but didn't know how to start on your own, I think you'd find this very interesting! (no, I am not teaching it. someone with much more experience than me is)
Web Development in Ruby on Rails
Course Number 4564 – 40 Hours
Overview:
This is an introductory course to Ruby on Rails, a popular, open-source framework for developing Web applications. Developers (and the organizations for which they work) love Rails, because it allows them to create high-quality applications quickly and reliably. Both Ruby andRails embrace object-oriented programming to a very large degree, also embracing (and encouraging) the use of “metaprogramming” to turnRails into a library that is especially useful and tuned for creating a particular Web application.
The course begins with an overview of the Ruby language, and then progresses through the major elements of the Rails framework, including numerous hints for getting the most out of it. The course concludes with participants building a Web application that is of personal interest and value, using the skills that they have learned during the course.
Course Contents:
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Ruby language
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Introduction to Rails, and ActiveRecord
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Controllers, views, and helpers
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Ajax and advanced topics
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Personal project
I wrote a long and difficult blog post on my findings, 6 months after switching full time to Ruby development, about the Ruby community and its differences from the .NET community, and how Microsoft helps make those differences even bigger.
I think every .NET developer should read about these experiences.
Hi all.
Next week the Ruby Underground meeting is actually taking place in Microsoft in Herzliya.
The topics of the meeting will be about Sinatra, and a glimpse of one developer's development environment and what tools they use on a daily basis.
It is totally free to join, and if you're interested in Ruby at all, this is a warm and welcoming group of people who'd love to help you learn!
Sessions:
- What, why and when of Sinatra? Why not Rails?
- Hello world. (building a live app)
- Routes. Views. ActiveRecord?
- Testing.
- Overview of advanced stuff.
• My development environment (50 min) by Reuven Lerner
I've been developing in Ruby for about six years now, and have assembled over time a number of tools that provide me with an environment optimized for rapid development. I'll demonstrate the tools that I use, starting with the GNU Emacs editor and several add-ins for it, the Rails console (and IRB) and a number of useful gems for it, my Git configuration, and the configuration I've set up for my Unix shell.
see you there,
Roy