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Intro to Rails (AKA. Rails for Zombies)

Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Eric Allam (Envy Labs), Tyler Hunt (Envy Labs), Carlos Souza (Envy Labs), Jason VanLue (Envy Labs), Nick Walsh (Envy Labs)
9:00am Monday, 07/25/2011
Ruby
 Location: D139/140
Tags: ruby, web_development, ruby_on_rails
Presentation: Intro to Rails (AKA_ Rails for Zombies) Presentation [PDF]
Average rating: ****.
(4.56, 9 ratings)

Attendee prerequisites for this tutorial are listed below.

This course is for Rails beginners. We will start from the ground up, and learn the basics of building Rails 3 applications in five sections:

  1. CRUD with ActiveRecord
  2. Models (the database layer)
  3. Views (where you find the HTML)
  4. Controllers (the C in MVC)
  5. Routing

We have developed an application that lets you try coding in Rails with only your browser, so all you’ll need to bring is a laptop with Wifi.

PREREQUISITES

Thank you for registering for Intro to Rails (AKA. Rails for Zombies)! All you’ll need to attend the course is a working laptop with wifi, and a browser which isn’t Internet Explorer (also your iPad won’t be good enough, sorry). Before you come to the course we recommend you play through http://www.tryruby.org/. It’s an in-browser Ruby tutorial.

QUESTIONS for the speaker?: Use the “Leave a Comment or Question” section at the bottom to address them.

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Gregg Pollack

Envy Labs

Gregg Pollack works at Envy Labs, where he produces a podcast, creates educational screencasts, and develops websites with Rails. He also runs the Ruby Hero Awards, organizes the Orlando Ruby Users Group, and is also sometimes known as the Ruby on Rails guy in the “Rails vs” commercials or the “C” in MVC.

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Eric Allam

Envy Labs

Eric is a Ruby developer but can sometimes get distracted by shiny things, like node.js or Cocoa Touch. He is excited by finding pragmatic solutions to hard problems, and turning those problems into compelling products. Catch him in a coffee shop and he would be just as willing to engage in a discussion of literature as he would the benefits of TDD.

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Tyler Hunt

Envy Labs

Tyler is a veteran web developer with a penchant for the Ruby language and frameworks including Ruby on Rails and Merb. He enjoys creating practical, intuitive interfaces with semantic markup, well-crafted JavaScript, and pretty colors. When he’s not coding, you’ll find him in the kitchen cooking up new recipes and mixing classic cocktails.

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Carlos Souza

Envy Labs

Carlos (Caike) Souza is currently a developer at Envylabs, where he spends his time between client projects and the development of CodeSchool.com, an interactive learning platform of web technologies. When not programming, he can be found climbing walls or playing bass with his band.

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Jason VanLue

Envy Labs

Jason is a designer, husband, and father. He’s Design Lead at Envy Labs, a leading web development firm in Orlando, FL, edits Branding Matters a popular blog on branding and design, and is Chief Brewmeister at Brewwd combining great design with great beer. He’s also a self-proclaimed craft beer snob and a borderline crazy UNC Tarheel fan.

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Nick Walsh

Envy Labs

Nick is a Rails convert-in-training and WordPress aficionado. He splits time between design and front-end development, ensuring a successful bridge to functionality. Pixels and proportions are his leading causes of lost sleep, followed closely by Dr. Pepper intake.

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Stuart Malkin
08/01/2011 9:47am PDT

I thought this was a perfect way to introduce Ruby on Rails in a half day course. The fact that setup only required a browser and validation of code was done online was very helpful. All of the guys at Envy labs were very helpful and positive.

Tony Pisarenkov
07/25/2011 6:09pm PDT

I realize that squeezing this into a half-day course is probably impractical, but in a perfect world I would have loved to do the exercises on a real app, in the sense that I would be editing actual files and deploying them as a real Rails app. This would (1) demonstrate how to deploy a Rails app and (2) allow students to change multiple aspects of an app at the same time to see how the changes interact. Otherwise, excellent class. Time very well spent. Thank you.