Those of us in the consulting business have all been there. We receive a lead for a new client with an existing Rails codebase that stinks to high heaven. Its controllers are fat, tests are non-existant, and the database.yml is checked into source control with the production passwords in plain sight. This quote is taken right out of a Code Review done by Envy Labs:
"The high point of this application is the rails scaffold generated code"
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Lots has happened since Rails for Zombies 2 was released last October, I can't believe that was the last post to the Envy Labs blog! I definitely want to give you the rundown, but first I wanted to post a video which gives some insight into the course building process at Code School.
The Making of the Anatomy of Backbone.js
Here's the run down on what's happened at Code School in the past few months.
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- Engine Yard Blog: Steppin' Out: Real America Edition
- Orlando Ruby Users Group: Meeting next Wednesday - Zombies!!!
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012
Gregg Pollack is resurrected in this paid course to advance your Rails knowledge with 5 new videos and a bunch of new code challenges. We'll jump into the command line, migrations, more ActiveRecord, forms, using AJAX, and even a taste of the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline with SCSS and CoffeeScript.
If you're an experienced Rails developer and you just want to come and hang out, you're welcome to stop by, have a free beer/whiskey, and play some ping pong. It'll …
- Ruby Inside: rbenv: A Simple, New Ruby Version Management Tool
- Engine Yard Blog: Steppin' Out: Real America Edition
- Envy Labs: Lets Teach the World to Program
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: What's Up With All These Changes in Rails?
- ricroberts: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the MadLab, Manchester in August
- RubyLearning Blog: Why don't you use and review these useful Ruby Gems?
…Engine Yard and Obtiva will host a day long Introduction to Rails taught by Gregg Pollack, from Code School & Envy Labs. The tutorial will start with a live version of Rails for Zombies followed by a second Zombie Rails tutorial (which has not yet been published). It's only 85 bucks--you can register here .
If you do make it out to these events, keep your eyes peeled for Engine Yard folks! It's always our pleasure to hang out with you guys.
- MySQL Performance Blog: Free Percona Live tickets and Percona Support contract!
- Dead Programmer Society: Configuring Hybrid Ruby on Rails Applications On EY-Cloud
- Programblings: Rubinius for the Layman, Part 1: Rubies All the Way Down
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Engine Yard - Bronze Sponsor
- John Resig: Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Hopping in the cloud
…September 16th in Chicago. Code School's Gregg Pollack, of Rails for Zombies fame, is leading this day-long session, and it promises to deliver. Heck, bring two friends. Make sure they're cute.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's talk more about your cute friend, and why he or she should join us.
In my role as director of training at Engine Yard, I have heard two phrases again and again. The first goes something …
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- Ruby Inside: 13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: What's Up With All These Changes in Rails?
- Mislav's blog: will_paginate v3.0: Rails 3, Sinatra and more
- Article RSS Feed: August 2011 Meeting
- Giles Bowkett: Career Exploration: Work For Free Rather Than Lowering Your Rate
Gregg Pollack - Under the cover with Rails 3 http://blog.envylabs.com/reddot/
Matt Jacobs - Building a Financial App in Rails http://matthewrudy-at-reddot.heroku.com/
Sau Sheong - Ruby and R http://www.slideshare.net/sausheong/rubyand-r
Tom Preston-Werner - Unlocking the Secrets of Git (video *) http://sea.ucar.edu/event/unlocking-secrets-git
Gautam Rege - Outsourcing & Rails http://outsourcing-rails-reddot.heroku.com/ …
- Engine Yard Blog: ruote and flow
- Intridea - Company Blog: RailsWizard Reimagined
- flow: #protip - rails console
- # hash: Dry migrations
- DevInterface Blog: Ruby Enumerables: Operation on hashes
- Rails Tutorial News: coderpath interview about the Rails Tutorial project
It's that time again to take a moment to think about those who have impacted the Ruby community this year but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away eighteen awards in the past three years at Railsconf, and this year we are preparing to give away six more.
But we need your help.
So, if you know someone who has contributed greatly this year please take a moment to show some gratitude by nominating them on RubyHeroes.com . In two weeks …
- Ruby Inside: Quality Interviews with 10 Rubyists (and Bob Martin)
- Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Tutorial Day
- Rails Dog: A Public "Thank You"
- Envy Labs: Envy Labs...out on the town!
One of the reasons the Ruby and Rails community is so strong and passionate is because of the awesome regional conferences that happen all around the globe on a yearly basis. Previously on this blog I've gone through the list and highlighted a bunch, but since then Ruby There has popped up.
So instead of listing out all the conferences I'm just going to send you over to RubyThere.com .
If you dig the Ruby and Rails community I highly recommend you attend …
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- The Pug Automatic: TextMate to Vim with training wheels
- Orlando Ruby Users Group: Two Free Ruby Events
- Mike Clark: TrackPro: The Making of an iPhone App
- Engine Yard Blog: Connecting the Worlds of Java and Ruby with JRuby Webinar
- Plataformatec Blog: CIJOE, can you please watch my windows?
MagicRuby, the FREE Ruby conference at Walt Disney World Resort® on February 4-5, 2011, is nearly full! If you want to hang out with over 300 other Rubyists and see talks by Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas, Kyle Neath ( Github), Gregg Pollack ( Ruby5, Envy Labs, Rails for Zombies), and a host of other great speakers, all at a convention center literally steps from the Magic Kingdom park, then you'd better run over to http://magic-ruby.com and grab a ticket right now. They're going very fast!
- Orlando Ruby Users Group: Two Free Ruby Events
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Jeremy McAnally
- Envy Labs: Rails Training & Magic Ruby
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
…Rails Envy Podcast Becomes.. The Ruby Show - Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer's entertaining Rails Envy podcast was taken out to the pasture and shot in 2009, but 2010 opened with podcasting legend Dan Benjamin getting on board with Jason and turning it into The Ruby Show. Little did I know I'd replace Dan as Jason's co-host in October! It's true.
February
MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release - …
- Ruby Inside: Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: mongoBoston conference coming soon
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #101
- Engine Yard Blog: Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud
- Viget.com Blogs: Around "Hello World" in 30 Days
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 254 — Hello World