Trainer Amir  has planned a RoR Bootcamp with New Media Manitoba, and it sounds like there is no chance it won’t be a blast. This is one training event that is long overdue for Manitoba and we’re thrilled to have Amir’s expertise to deliver the course. You can register online at the NMM website.

Manitoba developers that aren’t already working with RoR will have the opportunity to get up to speed so quickly. You can see all the details at http://www.newmediamanitoba.com/content/view/160/1/ but here’s the skinny:

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

The computers and training materials are all provided, so register soon and get your geek on!