Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp 2009 June 20th
I’ve recently been recruited as an instructor for the holy Big Nerd Ranch and will be giving my first course, the 7-day Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, in companion with Charles Brian Quinn of Highgrove Studios fame taking place in March 2009. I’ll take care of the first two days, which will be used to lay a solid foundation of Ruby programming before diving into the following 5 days where Charles teaches all things Rails.
The course takes place near Frankfurt, Germany, at the beautiful monastery “Kloster Eberbach”. In fact, numerous Big Nerd Ranch courses have been held at this venue, the first one being held by no other than Marcel Molina Jr. in April 2006.
For the duration of the course you will stay directly at the monastery, delicious meals will be provided at the historic “Klosterschänke” and the course itself is held on the just as historic “Heuboden”, a truly amazing environment to learn and have a good time. Also included is a tour through the monastery accompanied by a wine tasting.
Check out the course page for additional course details as well as pricing information and registration form.
See you at the monastery!
PS: Not a beginner Rails developer but looking to advance your skills? Charles will be at the monastery for the Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the end of August 2008.
Simply Rails 2 now available May 22nd
I’ve been hard at work getting my Rails beginner’s book Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications updated to reflect the changes and additions in Rails 2. Part of this process was making everything work even simpler than it has been in the first edition, hence the title change to Simply Rails 2.
All of the chapters have been reworked to incorporate the partially massive simplifications that have shipped in Rails 2 and I’ve also changed the database used in the installation to be SQLite, aptly changed from the MySQL default in both the first edition of the book and in Rails 1.2.
Shovell, the sample application developed over the course of the book, is also developed fully RESTful now, one of the complaints the first edition received.
The chapter on debugging incorporates the content from the former stand-alone article Debugging Your Rails App with ruby-debug introducing you to the newly gained debugging powers from Kent Sibilev’s great debugging tool.
The book finally came back from the printer last week and is now available for purchase from SitePoint in both PDF and hard copy form. They also sell a bundle of both as a special value pack. Of course the hard copy is also available for purchase from the usual suspects.
SitePoint also published an excerpt of the book as an article titled Rails For Beginners: All You Need To Know! and made a PDF of chapters 1 through 4 available as a free download.
Have at it!