Ruby on Rails
From Zero to Hero

Who am I?
John Barton, Web Developer
http://whoisjohnbarton.com
http://alltimetop5.com

Zero to Hero?

What I really mean is the
transition between knowing
nothing about Rails to having
deployed a full application into
the wild

I thought about putting some hippie slide about
learning Rails being a “journey” not a
destination and so on.
Thankfully I thought better of it and skipped it

What is Rails?
Why should I learn Rails?
How does this “journey”
thing go?

Rails is...

...an opinionated web framework

MVC

ActiveRecord takes care
of everything you are sick
of doing over and over
and over again

Why?

productivity

maintainability

what if I can’t use Rails in production?

you will learn best practice via the path of least resistance
then apply it at your day job
then get annoyed at why your co-workers don’t get it

How?

Get hands on!
Watch the 10 minute blog video
Build an app!

but....

It won’t take long before you hit a wall
this wall is called “the Rails way”
most things are easy done the Rails way, but it takes a
while to grok it

Everyone in the Ruby and Rails community has
had to go through this transition
We want to do everything we can to help you

Who am I, again?
John Barton, Web Developer
http://whoisjohnbarton.com
http://alltimetop5.com