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Emerald City Programming Group (June 1)
The next Emerald City Programming Group meeting will be June 1st from 10:00am to 12:00pm. For this meeting, we'll be covering Chapter 11 of "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" - Following Users
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More Info:
The Emerald City Programming Group is a group of people getting together to learn how to program in Rails.
This class will cover the following:
* Rails
* Ruby
* Git / GitHub
This class is geared towards beginning to intermediate programmers.
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/atlrug-emera...
Building sponsored by Primedia (http://www.primedia.com/)
Future Meetings
- Monthly Meetup (June 12)
- Monthly Meetup (July 10)
- Monthly Meetup (August 14)
- Monthly Meetup (September 11)
- Monthly Meetup (October 9)
See more on meetup.com
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Suggestions for learning Ruby and/or Rails
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Emerald City Programming Group
The Emerald City Programming Group is a group of people getting together in Norcross to learn how to program in Rails. We start in September of the each year and use a recent "Ruby-on-Rails project" book which incrementally builds a Rails project. Each meeting involves either a book chapter or some other related topic. We usually finish the book by early June. We meet roughly every 2 weeks (10am-Noon Saturday). Look for Emerald City on the calendar at Atlanta Ruby on Meetup.com
Online
Look for materials that are up to date and use current best practices (probably written in 2012 or 2013).
Be wary of tutorial materials that fail to use Ruby 1.9+ and Rails 3.2+, or fail to reference Git, RVM, or Bundler.
Books
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Rails Tutorial
We've found this book to be an excellent resource for top-down learners: people who like to attack real problems right away, and figure out how the language and framework function as they go.
There are lots of various books available, but be wary of outdated ones. The best practices are still evolving. Look for books that talk about some of the current best practices, as mentioned in the online section, above.
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Networking
Networking sounds like an MBA buzzword, but it is as easy as coming to a Meeting and talking about what interests you in software. We encourage you to come and ask people about their jobs.
Hire someone?
How to hire a Ruby developer.
There is a lot of demand for Ruby developers, so hiring can be challenging.
Send one of your current developers to announce an opening at an AtlRug Meeting. Make sure to tell people how your job is different.
If you have no technical experience, you may need a partner who understands technology.
