Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Introduction to Ruby on Rails

February 27 - March 1

Learn the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails development with our Introduction to Ruby on Rails course. Over the course of 3 days you will build a Ruby on Rails application from scratch, learning about:

• Ruby Refresher and Background
• Objects, Classes, Methods, Modules
• Installing Ruby and Rails
• Tour of a basic Rails application
• Creating your first application
• Test/Behavior-driven development
• Model, View, Controller Concepts
• ActiveRecord associations
• Helpers and Partials
• Managing databases with Migrations
• Utilizing plugins
• RESTful Concepts

Venue

The Hotel George, Washington, D.C.

Nestled on Capitol Hill’s business district, adjacent to the U.S. Capitol, The Hotel George is a short walk from Washington, DC’s exciting destinations, attractions and landmarks like Union Station, the National Mall and Smithsonian Museums, U.S. Supreme Court, Verizon Center, International Spy Museum, National Gallery of Art, Nationals Stadium and The White House. Hotel George is one block away from Union Station, making it easily accessible by Washington DC's metro system and Amtrak.

Instructors

Adam Bair

Adam has a passion for elegant solutions and beautiful code even in the depths of the trenches. He is a Ruby on Rails evangelist who advocates behavior driven development and web standards. He was an instructor at the LoneStar Ruby Conference, talked at the first annual South Carolina Ruby Conference, participated in the 2008 Rails Rumble, and is writing a book on Rails refactoring. Before joining Intridea, Adam worked at Revolution Health building large-scale applications used by millions of people each month. Before that, he managed humans in a network operating center, punched down network cables in dark server closets, and even worked with PHP.

Joe Grossberg

Joe has been building websites since before Internet Explorer even existed. He has extensive hands-on experience with key technologies including Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript. In addition to his work at Intridea, Joe is an instructor for Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts. He is passionate about using the web to solve problems and empowering others to do the same.