Week 5 - On as scheduled.

[Scott Haines]

Week 5 is almost here.

In preparation for today's class.

Step 1.
Pull Latest Clone: https://github.com/newfront/hacker-dojo-rails3-code-base
Alternatively: Download the zip, and open up the week 5 folder.

Step 2.
Update your config/database.yml
- point to your local machine, or hosted mysql
- alternatively, you can go ahead and use sqlite3

Step 3.
- rake db:setup --trace
- rake db:migrate
- rake db:seed

Step 4.
Your now ready for class.

Overview of today's class.

1. We will go through the Faux Twitter example.

2. You will be working in your groups to add some additional
functionality to this site.

3. Introduction to jQuery and how it can work with Rails (for those
who want to learn this, Javascript background is helpful)

Homework.
1. Continue your class project with your groups.

2. Depending on where each class is in their project, special
assignments will be assigned on a per group basis.

Thanks. See you all soon.

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BTW - today's example is live online. (Hosted on an Amazon aws m1 ec2
instance running rails 3, ruby 1.9.2

http://204.236.129.34:3000/home

[Chung Yang]

Hi Scott:

Is the last meeting on our Ruby class on for Jan 10th?   I don't see the meetup schedule, but HackerDojo web page does show it. 

Best,

Chung