Rails Foundations Workshop January 19, 2010

Times:
This workshop runs Tuesday & Thursday from 6pm-8pm starting January 19 and ending February 18 (10 sessions).

Price:
There is no set price for this Workshop: you are free to name your own price. See the registration link for more details.

About Rails:
Rails (http://rubyonrails.org/) is a full-stack (all the parts are designed together) web application framework that focuses on rapid development and ease of maintance. Rails was created in 2005 and is the technology behind a number of popular web applications:
http://twitter.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://m.wikipedia.org/
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.yellowpages.com/
http://github.com/
http://www.hulu.com/
http://www.scribd.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://nytimes.com/ (all their custom apps for special topics).

If you've spent the last 5 years developing in PHP, Java, or Perl Ruby on Rails will likely come as a delightful breath of fresh air to your development process. Even if you never code in Rails after the course, the patterns and best practices encapsulated in Rails will change the way you think about web projects.

About the class:
We're two UM Alumni who've been developing and teaching Rails since 2005. We've taught both U courses (through the School of Information) and community oriented courses aimed at turning non-web developers into web developers.

About the Attendees:
Developers with previous experience in an OOP language will gain the most from the Rails Foundations workshop. We encourage attendees to code along with the demonstration on their *NIX-based laptops (including Linux and Mac OS X). Rails Foundations uses official documentation and community guides as a text resource – there are no books to buy.

Rails Foundations is not intended as an introductory programming course. Experience with basic programming concepts and system administration of your preferred computing system is required.

Official Website: http://backtik.github.com/