Ruby Nuby Session - Rails Intro

Ruby on RailsFrom Zero to Hero

Who am I?John Barton, Web Developerhttp://whoisjohnbarton.com

http://alltimetop5.com

Zero to Hero?

What I really mean is the transition between knowing nothing about Rails to having

deployed a full application into the wild

I thought about putting some hippie slide about learning Rails being a “journey” not a

destination and so on.

Thankfully I thought better of it and skipped it

What is Rails?

Why should I learn Rails?

How does this “journey” thing go?

Rails is...

...an opinionated web framework

MVC

ActiveRecord takes care of everything you are sick

of doing over and over and over again

Why?

productivity

maintainability

what if I can’t use Rails in production?

you will learn best practice via the path of least resistance

then apply it at your day job

then get annoyed at why your co-workers don’t get it

How?

Get hands on!

Watch the 10 minute blog video

Build an app!

but....

It won’t take long before you hit a wall

this wall is called “the Rails way”

most things are easy done the Rails way, but it takes a while to grok it

Everyone in the Ruby and Rails community has had to go through this transition

We want to do everything we can to help you

Who am I, again?John Barton, Web Developerhttp://whoisjohnbarton.com

http://alltimetop5.com