RailsMN Monthly Meetup for Rails Beginners
Details
Prime Digital Academy is hosting us for the month of March, 2017! We are back on the Second Monday of the month, at least tentatively.
Topic for March, 2017: getting your web site up on Heroku! To prepare, you can run through the RailsBridge Installfest tutorial (http://installfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/) and create a Heroku account and download the heroku toolbelt.
We have monthly sessions to help you get started building a real Ruby on Rails web application while learning best practices and fundamental web development concepts. We offer mentorship and community to supplement how you learn Rails, be it via classroom or online tutorials or otherwise. Our mentors will be available to help you get started (and installed) with Rails, advise you about core concepts of Rails and web development, and help clarify any other questions.
Each session will largely be in a 'hack night' format. We'll kick off the session with a few words of advice, introductions and then get you started on one of the great build-an-app resources (like Mike Hartl). Experienced Rails developers will then come around and work with you for the rest of the evening. You're also encouraged to ask questions of other beginners around you!
We feel the best way to learn Rails is to actively develop something. There are a lot of great tutorials online that can help you understand the syntax and can guide you through building an app, but it generally leaves a lot of questions. Our format is meant to give you individual feedback about things that those tutorials may leave you wondering about.
People of all experience levels are welcome to come and participate, and are encouraged to ask questions.
Bring:
A Laptop: Please come with your laptop prepared with a working Rails development environment installed. You should test this by building a really simple Rails application, basically a "Hello World" sort of thing.
Last month, most attendees got up an running quickly on Cloud9 (https://c9.io), a software development environment in the cloud.
For more information about installing Rails, view some installation tutorials at http://www.railsmn.org/installation/
Reach us on Twitter @RailsMN (http://www.twitter.com/railsmn)