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<h1>Ruby on Rails Workshop</h1>

<h3>June 13th, 2009</h3>

<h1>Open source workshop</h1>

<ul>
<li>Community project
<ul>
<li>Many individuals </li>
<li>SF Ruby Meetup</li>
<li>DevChix</li>
<li>RailsBridge</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open materials
<ul>
<li>Workshop planning: devchix wiki</li>
<li>Slides: github, slidedown</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h1>Space, food &amp; drink</h1>

<ul>
<li>Orange Labs </li>
<li>Vodpod</li>
<li>SlideShare</li>
</ul>

<h1>Projectors</h1>

<ul>
<li>Orange Labs (3)</li>
<li>SlideShare (2)</li>
<li>ShareGrove (1)</li>
<li>Laszlo Systems (1)</li>
<li>Pivitol Labs (1)</li>
<li>SFWow (1)</li>
</ul>

<h1>Books and software</h1>

<ul>
<li>Addison-Wesley</li>
<li>Manning</li>
<li>Balsamiq</li>
<li>RubyMine</li>
</ul>

<h1>Why are we here?</h1>

<h1>What is Ruby on Rails?</h1>



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<span class="big-text">Language</span>
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<span class="big-text">Framework</span>
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<h2>Ruby: programming language</h2>

<ul>
<li>Object oriented</li>
<li>General purpose</li>
</ul>

<h2>Rails: web application framework</h2>

<ul>
<li>Database agnostic</li>
<li>Open source</li>
<li>History: 37signals</li>
</ul>

<h1>The Rails Philosophy</h1>

<ul>
<li>Opinionated</li>
<li>Convention over configuration</li>
<li>DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
** less code means it's easier to maintain &amp; modify</li>
<li>Test Driven Development (TDD)</li>
<li>Minimal code - maximal effect</li>
</ul>

<h1>Agile development</h1>

<ul>
<li>Pair programming</li>
<li>Test-driven or Behavior-driven development</li>
</ul>

<h1>Goal</h1>

<ul>
<li>By the end of the day, you will have built and deployed a web application live n the internet</li>
</ul>

<h1>Tools we'll be working with</h1>

<ul>
<li><strong>rails</strong></li>
<li><strong>rake</strong>: like make for ruby, easy way to run tasks</li>
<li><strong>git</strong>: for source code control</li>
<li><strong>database</strong>: we'll use sqlite, but could be any relational database </li>
<li><strong>editor</strong></li>
<li>hosting services
<ul>
<li><strong>github</strong>: source code repository </li>
<li><strong>heroku</strong>: free rails hosting</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h1>Today's project</h1>

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<h1>announcements</h1>

<h1>giveaways</h1>

<h1>schedule</h1>

<ul>
<li>9:30 registration coffee/tea </li>
<li>10am-10:20 large group presentation</li>
<li>10:30-11:20 session 1</li>
<li>11:30-12:20 session 2</li>
<li>12:30-1:30 lunch</li>
<li>1:30-2:20 session 3</li>
<li>2:30-3:20 session 4</li>
<li>3:30-4pm session 5  (review what we've learned final questions)</li>
<li>4:10 - volunteers meet for quick mtg, you can keep coding if you want</li>
<li>4:30 - clean up</li>
<li>5pm After party at Xebec</li>
</ul>

<h1>Workshop Groups</h1>

<ul>
<li>Novice 
<ul>
<li>Purple, Golden Gate, Jen Mei</li>
<li>Yellow, Kitchen, Bosco</li>
<li>Bight Green, Siphy-Harbor, Sarah Mei</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PHP Experience
<ul>
<li>Dark Green, Viaduc De Millan (Boardroom), Austin</li>
<li>Fushia, Ponte De Normandie, Seth</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Other programming language experience
<ul>
<li>Medium Blue, Innvation Garden, Sarah Allen </li>
<li>Light Blue, Bay Bridge, Mike</li>
<li>Cyan, Tower Bridge, Carmen </li>
</ul></li>
</ul>