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I’m teaching a beginner ruby class. If you’ve ever been interested in learning Ruby this is a hands on class with no experience and no software required. Class is this Wednesday the 15th at 7pm in downtown Austin.

If you’ve never taken a class at Hourschool before, it’s a peer-to-peer learning platform that lets anyone teach and take classes. It’s been a fun way to meet people in the community and pick up some skills too. Even if you’re not into programming they’ve got lots to offer, from cooking to color design. Forget going to a boring movie next week, learn how to make bagels with real live people instead !!

P.S. Hourschool runs on Heroku and I helped build it (in Ruby of Course)!

Rails 3 Beginner to Builder 2011

This is part 1 of my Rails 3: Beginner to Builder series. http://schneems.com/beginner-to-builder-2011

If you’re looking to learn Rails 3.0.0 and you’ve got no experience, then you’re in the right place. This class taught at the University of Texas is an 8 week long series of one hour classes, taught by yours truly. We’re going to be doing course work out of the Agile Web Development with Rails version 4 book, so if you’d like to follow along at home, you’ll need to get a copy. Below is the video of the class presentation as well as a copy of the slides.

If you have technical questions and don’t have time to wait for class I highly encourage you to find chat room on IRC, or to ask a question on Stack Overflow. I also recommend attending a local Rails user groups such as Austin on Rails. Coding is a social sport, so the quicker you can join the community, the better. 

Assignment before starting this week: Chapters 1 & 2

Assignment before week 2: Chapters 3, 4 & 5

Video

Untitled from richard schneeman on Vimeo.

Presentation

Rails 3 Beginner to Builder 2011 Week 1 View more presentations from Richard Schneeman

A word of warning: Different versions of rails can be drastically different, this is a course on rails 3.0. It does not cover Rails 2.X and will not cover any features introduced in 3.1 or later.

Week 1 Topics:

  -Rails

    - Intro to Rails

    - Rails Architecture

    - MVC (Model View Controller)

    - ORM (Object Relational Mapping)

    - RESTful (REpresentational STate)

  - Ruby

    - Strings

    - Symbols

    - Arrays

    - Hashes

  - Work Environment

    - Verion Control

    - Ruby Gems

    - Bundler

    - RVM

    - Tests