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

[David Townsend]

I can highly recommend peepcode.com for people looking to widen their
rails skills.  The site has hour long lessons made by the Ruby on
Rails podcaster Geoffrey Grosenbach.  You have to pay but each one is
well worth the $9.

The testing and REST ones are excellent but they're all very
professional and the teaching systematic and organised.

I have no connection to the site btw, it's just a recommendation.

David









On 4/4/07, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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