The next session will be on 7th of October and will feature more work on the Ramaze pizza application. This session will involved saving pizza preferences to a data store and a discussion of how to abstract the concrete persistence mechanism away from the web code and how best to make persistence implementations swappable. A [...]
Just a quick write up. During the session we just installed Ruby and got irb and Scite running. Danilo then went through a few features of Ruby. This lead into a discussion of the language that I am going to try and sum up here. Ruby is a dynamic language with strong typing and effectively [...]
The next session (23rd of September) is meant to be an introductionary session where you can get set up with Ruby and write your first code. No questions too basic, no prior knowledge assumed. It would also be good to have some experienced Rubyists to help answer questions.
This session is going to be on the pizza application (finally!) using Ramaze. The idea is to add some dynamic functionality and possibly data persistence to the barebones application. There is a GitHub project with the outline code. Currently desired spec from the customer (i.e. me!): Should calculate when the next Ruby Tuesday is [...]