Posts Tagged Ruby

    Ruby on Rails @ Agile North

    Last week was the Agile North Annual conference. I was invited to run an introduction to Ruby on Rails. On the request of the attendees I’ve attached here the presentation slides along with the application developed.

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    Ruby on Rails demo

    This week I had the pleasure of running a demo of Ruby on Rails for the agile north group. This was a well attended session that (much as I’d like to) I probably can’t claim all of the credit for. While I have not had a great deal of experience of Ruby on Rails I agreed to run this session in part to force myself to spend a little time on it.

    There seems to be a real buzz about Ruby at the moment. People from a wide variety of backgrounds are looking at Ruby and particularly Rails trying to establish what the fuss is all about and if the promised productivity can pay off in their environment.

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