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Migrating to Ruby and Rails

Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM (PT)

Santa Monica, CA

Migrating to Ruby and Rails

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Early Bird Ended $445.00 $9.95
Regular Ended $495.00 $9.95

Event Details

Developers or newbies looking to make the jump to Ruby and Rails, look no more. Get ready for a fast-paced, hands-on weekend of coding galore, taught by LA’s most in-demand Rubyists, Ron Evans and Ian Hunter -- brought to you by your favorite coworking spot, the Coloft.

As an introductory rate, we are offering this course at a 50% discount just this once -- normal price will be $995

There are only 15 spots total! This is a small class to optimize learning,

so sign up fast!


AGENDA

Day 1: Ruby 

  • Idioms & Syntax
  • Eigen Classes
  • Operators
  • Ruby's Object Model        
  • Structure of a Program 
  • Core Data Structures & API      
  • Objects
  • Modules
  • Procs & Blocs
  • Bindings  
  • Meta Programming

Day 2: Rails 

  • What Rails Provides
  • Associations
  • Project Structure
  • Controllers
  • Command Line Tools 
  • Helpers
  • Models
  • Views
  • Active Record
  • Actions
  • Migrations
  • Templates

What you’ll get:

  • Breakfast, beverages and snacks, lunch, and an endless supply of coffee
  • A binder with all the printed material
  • All the example source code to refer back to later
  • Internet connectivity and power
  • Awesome Ruby and Rails skills
  • Small class size = More one-on-one time

Who's Teaching?

Ron Evans is a world-class Rubyist, founder of the Hybrid Group and blogger who has presented at a number of key ruby events including RailsConf, RubyConf, FutureRuby, Ignite, 140 THE Twitter Conference, Los Angeles Ruby Conference, Conferencia Rails, and TWTRCON.

Ian Hunter is a Ruby guru, founding technologist, and advisor to a number of Ruby startups, presenter at TechCrunch 50, and owner of Los Angeles early-stage consultancy Cohesive. He’s led technology and architecture at several fast-scaling companies including CocoDot, ePublishing, eStara and RollStream.

This is for: Those that know nothing about Ruby and/or Rails and want to get in on it; know a bit but want to know more; want to perfect your skills. Small class size allows you to really learn, even if you're a total newbie.

This is not for:  Ruby/Rails experts (this is not an advanced course) 

What should you bring:  a laptop.

*Class is from 9am - 5pm on August 14th & 15th.