Ruby Study Group

This is a Ruby focussed study group and you are welcome to work on anything you like in our friendly and helpful environment. The organisers and Tech Leads will be present to help you with any Ruby related questions.

We will also be hearing 3 lightening talks!

This event is for programmers of ALL levels of Ruby ability.

6:00 - 6:30 Arrive

6:30 - 7:00 Welcome + Lightning Talks

• Lucy Bain: Ruby off Rails (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iuV2wKQ1b_Mj6KOZACE9lDXtxkz3WXd9jcOtfilw66Q/edit?usp=sharing) - Bits and pieces you can do with Ruby that make it so awesome to work with :) Map, select, .first, if/unless, other niceties. Beginner friendly talk.

• Claire Tran: Performance Tips For RoR Apps - A look into some techniques that can be applied to RoR apps (and most apps in general) on how to improve performance. We'll be looking into scaling, caching and other methods to grow from a single server database app to bigger apps :)

• Shamim Jahandideh: How to stay up to date and on top of things in the IT world

7:00 - Hack Time

9:00 - Home time

Study Links by Level

Install:

http://railsinstallfest.org

Beginner:

http://tryruby.org/

http://railsforzombies.org/ (http://railsforzombies.org/,)

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/ruby

http://www.codequizzes.com/

http://microcourses.info/courses/basic-variables/

http://guides.railsgirls.com/app/

http://microcourses.info/courses/loops/

http://rubykoans.com/

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

Intermediate:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ - Learn to Program

https://www.codeschool.com/courses/ruby-bits

http://microcourses.info/courses/ruby-atm/

http://microcourses.info/courses/recursion/

http://microcourses.info/courses/sinatra/

http://lbain.github.io/rails-girls-next/

Advanced:

Let's work on the TicTacToe sprint! You'll be filling in the skeleton version of the app. Working directly with Rspec, Pry, MVC and gaining of deeper understanding of object orientation. Get it here (https://github.com/WomenWhoCode/TicTacToeSkeleton) and find the documentation for it here (https://github.com/WomenWhoCode/TicTacToeDocumentation). Try forking before showing up!

Want something else?

Check out - http://iwanttolearnruby.com/

SPONSORS

A huge thank-you to both Ninefold and ReInteractive for sponsorship of this event.