April 2013 – Ruby on Rails!

[Paul Williams]

Time: 7:00pm start (Please note time change)

Venue: Staffordshire University - Stafford Campus (Room TBC)

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a mature and well used web application framework. It's ubiquity in startup culture has made it popular through its tool support and quick development support. However, it's also received criticism on several fronts in terms of code quality, framework coupling and slow executing tests.

This session run by Paul Williams aims to debunk a few myths whilst presenting Ruby on Rails including:

1. Demonstrating the original 'Scaffolding' approach to Rails
2. Demonstrating a BDD approach to Rails development through Cucumber
3. A discussion on some of the criticisms of Rails

This session is hands on, and a VirtualBox Ubuntu environment will be provided via USB stick. If you want to get your hands dirty, please install VirtualBox before the session - it's free!!

Also, please note venue change. As many will know, we've had venue problems over the recent months, and we have provisionally booked a room at Stafford Campus - this will be confirmed as soon as possible, and broadcast on the Newsgroup.

Hope to see you there,

Paul.

[Paul Williams]

Oh, and the date is Thursday 25th April!!!

[Cathy French]

We're meeting in K102 (in the Octagon building) Stafford campus, the map is here http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about/campuses/stafford/#octagon 

Cathy