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Title: Ruby and Rails for n00bs
Proposer: michel_grootjans
Type: Workshop
Duration: 90 minutes
Description:
You 've heard all the hype about ruby and you've heard how great rails is, but you've never got far in it. In this workshop, you will gain an understanding that most tutorials skip in favor of generation voodoo magic.
We'll be building a small application from scratch in ruby on rails. If the networking gods permit it, we'll have a working online application after the session.
Each step along the way will follow the same pattern:
- explain the goal
- formulate the goal as a test
- see the test fail
- implement the step
- see the test work
- refactor if necessary
- commit
- release if the feature is finished
Aim: developers who never used ruby or rails come out with the basics of the ruby syntax and idioms, and can get started building a simple rails application while understanding each step of the way.
Roger: yes (unless we have had enough ruby coverage in past years?)
Ewan: maybe (sounds a bit vanilla, despite the first sentence)