Speakers
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Chad Fowler 4.38
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Marcel Molina, Jr. 3.1
Description:
An all-day (9-5ish) introduction to Ruby and Rails with Chad Fowler and Marcel Molina. This tutorial would provide an excellent grounding for those just getting started, or those looking to delve a little deeper into Ruby.
Mastering Rails means learning the Rails APIs, following best practices and keeping up to date with the latest changes to the framework. The most important step to mastering Rails, though, is mastering Ruby as well. To become a Rails expert you need to be at ease with the Ruby language idioms on which it is built.
This tutorial will be a tour of the core Ruby language beyond the syntax into the idioms and approaches that make Ruby (and by extension Rails) so powerful.
Links: Website
Comments on this Talk
urfolomeus,
30 Mar 01:47 PM
Understood this even more after Dave Thomas' talk on Saturday.
Great tutorial, with many useful concepts and thoughtful exercises. Chad and Marcel did a really good job of improvising code to illustrate examples, and the focus on code and live examples was great.
Was worth coming to SOR just for the tutorial day. Much deeper than I expected.
glennhalstead,
30 Mar 08:42 PM
The tutorial day was very interesting. Chad and Marcel make a good team. The session did not do what it said on the team ("introduction to Ruby and Rails", "provide an excellent grounding for those just getting started") however I think the majority of attendees got a great deal more from the content than if it had been beginner level and it was probably more fun for Chad and Marcel to play around with all those wieird behavioural things. It was definatley over my head as a Ruby noob but I expect it will pay of down the line.
mduigou,
03 Apr 10:42 PM
Interesting tutorial even if it's was quite high for a newbie in Ruby like me.
Brilliant talk. Learned loads. Great delivery. I've even taken on Marcel's suggestion of brushing my teeth whilst being in the shower.