Training Event: Ruby on Rails with Chad Fowler

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.