Training Event: Ruby on Rails with Chad Fowler
By Viget Labs
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Dec. 29, 2006 | 0 comments
By Viget Labs, ,
in Events and Press Archives
Dec. 29, 2006 | 0 comments
This content originally appeared as a press release on viget.com, and has since been adapted for our FourLabs blog.
Viget Labs has invited Chad Fowler into town for 3 days of Ruby on Rails training. Chad is the author of Rails Recipes, a speaker at the upcoming Rails Edge conference, and, as one of the top Rails trainers, has provided private training sessions to developers around the world.
We have a limited number of spots available for qualified developers who are interested in joining us (details below). Just send an email to training@viget.com or contact Megan Alexander at 703-891-0670, ex 137. Note: PCs will not be provided. Please bring your own machine running the Rails development environment.
When: January 15 - January 17, 2007 (3 days)—9 am to 5 pm each day
Where: FGM headquarters—12021 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400 - Reston, VA (map)
Cost: $750 (includes lunch each day)
Summary:
A focused training session for web developers who:
- Have developed web applications written in a dynamic language (e.g. PHP)
- Are familiar with the MVC design pattern and who have potentially used another MVC framework
- Have dabbled a bit in Rails and would like to get more in-depth
Agenda:
Day 1 - Ruby Intro / Rails Quickstart
- Working with IRB (interactive Ruby)
- Ruby language basics
- Everything is an object
- Developing classes and modules
- Blocks and iterators
- Regular expressions and String processing
- How Domain Specific Languages are created in Ruby
- Introduction to eRB (embedded Ruby)
- Rails set up / dev sprint
Day 2
- Unit tests and fixtures
- Cleaning your views with Layouts
- ActionController filters
- ActiveRecord filters and observers
- Ajax and Rails
- Functional testing in Rails
- Advanced Active Record associations
- Sending mail
- Active Resource & RESTful development
- Ruby SOAP API (as time allows)
Day 3
- Generating XML with Builder
- Processing XML with REXML
- Working with routes
- Integration testing
- Acceptance testing w/ Selenium
- Receiving and processing mail
- Creating plugins
- Using gems
- Deployment and scaling
- Deployment with Capistrano
- Rails performance optimization
- Managing multiple DB connections
Developers who are interested in joining us should send an email to training@viget.com or contact Megan Alexander at 703-891-0670, ex 137.