Tagged by 'rails'

LUG Programming Course, 3rd March 2008

The last two lessons presented a whirlwind guide to Ruby, demonstrating a simple command line program, and a simple web application. That was a lot of material to digest, so in this lesson we'll make a short review of the important things we learned, and explain iterators and code blocks in a little more detail, since they caused some problems for some of the students.

As we still have much ground to cover, half of this week's lesson is also dedicated to an overview of the Ruby on Rails framework, which we'll be using in the next two lessons to construct a more complicated web application.

The lesson went reasonably well. I overran by about 15 minutes. I'll be overrunning a lot more in the next two lessons, as there's much more to go though. Seems I haven't lost anyone permanently from the course – they all diligently show up , some even and smile occasionally.

LUG Programming Course, 10th March 2008

This week's lesson starts us on a two part adventure building a web application using Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework. You'll need to install Ruby on Rails – we're using version 2.0.2. Our application also uses RMagick and SQLite. Installing RMagick is explained in this FAQ, we're using version 2.0.0. Installing SQLite is explained in this How-to, we're using the Ruby SQLite3 wrapper version 1.2.1. Windows users will need both the .exe and .dll versions of SQLite. The Ruby on Rails Wiki page also gives helpful information for SQLite.

The lesson went quite well, and although there was a lot to cover, we overran by only 15 minutes.

LUG Programming Course, 17th March 2008

This week's lesson concludes the two part adventure building a web application using Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework. Although we'll have a working application by the end of the lesson, good enough to play with at home, there will still be some work required to bring it to production environment standards.

The lesson went quite well, and although there was a lot to cover, we overran by only 15 minutes. We finished off the evening to celebrate the end of the course with a drink in a local bar.