Tutorial Day At #RailsConf
Yesterday, Scott and I went up to Charm City to sit in on tutorial day of RailsConf 2011. It was a good enough day.
As I don’t know Rails — at all — I went to the Rails for Idiots track. Otherwise known as Rails For Zombies and a live review of the Ruby on Rails Tutorials book. Scott went to Building Web Apps With HTML5 and Rails Best Practices. As far as I’m concerned, I paid $170 for the Zombies class — which is free online — and a live walkthrough of the RoR Tutorial book — which is also free online. The upside is that being in the room forced me to take the time to do the class, as opposed to being at home, where my login to the Zombies class laid fallow for a few weeks without me even starting.
I can’t particularly complain about the Zombies class: I did learn enough about RoR to be able work the data side of our architecture in a way to better facilitate the overall product. The continual Zombie metaphor wore thin pretty quickly, but it least it was a unified idiom throughout the presentation. The tutorial, on the other hand, assumed a higher level of competence with RoR than I have, as well as a fully established RoR environment on your computer. So, that was a bit less useful.
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