Ruby content

• Introduction to scripting languages
• Introduction to unit testing, functional testing, BDD
• Great Ruby and Rails free resources
• Basic git usage (distribute version control system), github
• IRB, rubygems
• Basic Ruby syntax
• Classes and inheritance in Ruby
• Ruby blocks, closures, iterators, examples of use
• Basic usage of Ruby standard library
• Modules, mixins, multiple inheritance in Ruby
• RSpec, Cucumber

Ruby on Rails content

• Introduction to MVC for web frameworks, Rails history, comparison with other frameworks
• Serving static content
• Rails ORM (ActiveRecord), migrations, database backends Joins, validations, associations, named_scopes
• Controllers, information sharing, filters, permissions Helpers, idioms, code smells
• Routing, REST, nested resources Login, logout, sessions, attachments
• Gem management, plugins, git submodules
• Advanced forms, custom form builders haml, sass will_paginate, paperclip, authlogic, formtastic
• Rspec-rails, cucumber-rails, other test gems
• Rails console, Rails runner Scripted deployment
• Testing web applications, modern Rails testing

Each day will consist of an explanation of the subjects, practical examples illustrating the concepts and hands on time to implement a series of exercises using the topics presented during the day.

Any questions please contact me!

The course would take place at New Media Manitoba and if you’d like to attend here is the link to register.

Why you should attend?

RoR is a full MVC web development framework that would show you that developing web applications can be intuitive, professional, secure, easy and fun!

What is so great about Rails? Here are some reasons:

• It’s based on ruby, so you get all the power of a dynamic language.
• Automatic dependencies and library management using Gems
• Automatic relational mapping to databases
• Behaviour Driven Development
• Test Driven Development
• Database versioning, migrations and seeding
• Automatic REST implementation
• Rake DSL
• Support for multiple view engines (like haml)
• Huge base of libraries (gems) and users around the world

Who should attend?

Any developer with basic knowledge of a programming language can learn RoR.

What do I get?

In this course you will build the confidence and real hands on knowledge to start developing high quality RoR applications. You will learn:

• Ruby scripting
• Rails MVC architecture.
• Package management with Gems.
• How to apply Behaviour Driven Development, and Test Driven Development.
• Persistence mapping with ActiveRecord.
• RESTful services.
• Manage source versioning with Git.
• Automated deployment with Capistrano.

Are you sure it’s a course for me?

Of course, it does not matter if you are a .NET, Java or Eiffel developer, RoR would open your mind to new concepts, technologies and tools that would complement and improve your daily tasks.

Any more questions, please contact me at amir@barylko.com.

Hope to see you there!

You can read about it at http://www.prairiedevcon.com/. It would be two complete days of sessions with four tracks and many cool speakers!!!!

I will do two presentations:

Real World Behaviour Driven Development

Behaviour Driven Development drives you process towards keeping the focus on the stakeholder’s goals while discovering new features to achieve those goals.
But… what does it mean in a .NET project to use BDD? What do I have to change? What tools are available? Can I use it for project with actual deadlines? How the quality will be improved?
We are going to see a real world example from start to finish using BDD and TDD while answering all those questions. After the session you will have the foundation to apply BDD with confidence on any .NET project.
Track: Developer Foundation
Style: Dojo (Bring your laptop and code with me!)

Test Driven Development Patterns for .NET Developers

Test Driven Development is a methodology that will help us to discover our model while improving the quality of our software.
We are going to see different patterns to help us deal with day to day problems like constructor initialization, exception testing, combinatorial tests, database testing, and many others.
Track: Developer Foundation
Style: Lecture

Hope to see you there!!!

You can download the presentation with the following links.

PPT: TDD Presentation & TDD Movie Library Demo
PDF: TDD Presentation & TDD Movie Library Demo

Here is a video I made with the presentation.

Comments are welcome!

The library provides common algorithms useful in every day coding tasks.

Why to use them? Instead of write again and again your own, test them, etc, you can benefit from using common algorithm like Find, ForEach and Collect to be more descriptive in your code and use predicates, actions and functions to express your intentions.

If you want to read more or donwload the library and code please checkout the page.