Announcement
LA Ruby Conference 2010
This is the second year for the LA Ruby Conference. Come and join us to learn about ruby and related technologies and software development practices that might change the way you do your job.
Registration for the conference is open. The conference on Saturday is $199.00. The training workshops on Friday are $60.00 each.
February 19-20, 2010
Holiday Inn
Burbank, CA
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Presentation
return to ScheduleRuby Koans (Introduction to Ruby)
Presented By: Jim Weirich, Joe O'Brien
Come with us on a journey. One that involves learning a new language in a way that demonstrates features and culture in one tutorial. The Ruby language has gotten a lot of buzz in the IT industry lately. It is a highly expressive language that comes with great increases in productivity, or so some say. Test Driven Development is a "Best Practice" that has become quite popular for developing rock solid application with reduced debugging time. Ruby and TDD, two great tastes that taste great together. This tutorial will combine TDD and Ruby training in a way to introduce you to the "Ruby Way" through tests. In this tutorial we will introduce you to the Ruby language. We will show you the basics of creating objects, control structures, using meta programming and an extended discussion on blocks and the things that might look a bit odd. You will walk away with a solid understanding of basic areas of ruby, a persistent knowledge base, in the form of a test suite, to take home and build upon, and a hunger to learn more and join the growing community of ruby developers. Bring you laptop, a sense of humor, and an open mind.