[LRUG] April Meeting - 16th April - Lineup?

[Roland Swingler]

On the subject of a rails beginners' session - one of the things I
found hardest when starting out with rails (and to a certain extent
still do) was not "core" rails which is well documented in ADWR and
online, but the wealth of best practices, useful plugins and tools
that are scattered throughout the web. It is difficult to avoid
thinking that one might be missing out on a lot of great ways of doing
things only because you haven't found the relevent blog article yet.

For example, it took a while before I stumbled across autotest, and
that has made a big impact on my development.

Some sort of "Working with rails" session would be cool - i.e. you
know what rails is, havve worked through the tutorials etc. but before
you start doing real work with it, go and look at whether these 10 or
20 articles/plugins might be useful for you. On the other hand, maybe
this sort of thing is better discussed through the mailing list /
one-on-one.

Cheers,
Roland

On 4/4/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Tom Armitage <tom at infovore.org> wrote:
> >
> > I think there's a slight misunderstanding going on in the past emails,
> > given this one - Suw is looking for a _Rails_ beginner's session, and
> > Muz's email was more directly targetted at a Ruby beginner's session.
> >
> > Personally, I can see there's value in both, and I think it's more
> > important to do a generic Ruby starting session before considering
> > doing something similar for Rails.
>
> Good point. Yes, I'd certainly benefit from a Ruby beginners session,
> without doubt. Guess I was sort of putting the cart before the horse a
> bit!
>
> Suw
>
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