Ruby / RoR Training Camp, Pune (India)

16 06 2006

Hello,

Reevik Technologies Pvt. Ltd. will be conducting a 5-day training camp
on Ruby and Ruby on Rails at Pune,India. Seating is
limited to 15 people. Seat allocation will be strictly on a
first-come-first-serve basis.

Details below:

Date:          21st June thru 25th June 2006
Time:          9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Place:         SICSR,Pune
Address:     SICSR,Atur Center,Gokhale Cross Road,Model Colony.

                  Pune – 411016,India

Cost:          Rs. 6,000.00 per person per day (group discounts
available)
Facilities:    Computers (Windows OS) with broadband Internet access/Wifi

Instructor/Trainer: Dibya Prakash
Lab Assistant: Vikrant Chaudhari
Contact:     Vaidehi Keskar
                  Phone: + 91-202-422-3058 /91-203-253-6287

                  Mobile: +91-989-060-1121
                 

                  Email:training@reevik.com

Course Content:  2 days Ruby, 3 days RoR.

Intro to Ruby (Day 1)
=====================

Hour 1: Ruby Basics
——-
 1. Interpreted: irb.exe (interactive shell), ruby.exe (file based)
 2. Basic screen I/O: gets, puts (print, p)
 3. Control flow: if-then-else, case-end, while/unless-loop, do-loop
 4. Expressions and functions
 5. Standard Types and Variables: local vs. global
 6. Dynamic nature: variables do not have types (dynamic binding)
 7. Coding Style

Hour 2: Language with a Class
——-
 1. Class vs. object: every thing is an object
 2. Containers: Array, Hash, String, Regex(optional)
 3. Blocks: power of Ruby (lexical closure)
 4. Iterators: yeild, each, map, select, reject, inject
 5. Exception Handling

Hour 3: Modularity
——-
 1. Modules
 2. Mixins
 3. Inheritance in Ruby
 4. Syntax Sugar (Hash arguments, optional parenthesis)
 5. File handling: require and load

Hour 4: Dynamics
——-
 1. Hidden Class
 2. method_missing
 3. Duck typing
 4. Proc object
 5. Executable Class definition
 6. Reflection

Hour 5: Library
——-
 1. Core Functionality
 2. Standard Library
 3. Unit testing
 4. Web protocols
 5. Threads (optional)
 6. GUI frameworks (optional)
Hour 6: Tools & IDEs
——-
 1. Debugger
 2. Rdoc
 3. ri, fxri
 4. Rake
 5. gem
 6. IDEs
 
——————————————————————–
Intermediate Ruby (Day 2)
=====================

Hour 1:  Testing and Profiling
——-
 1. Benchmark
 2. Profiling
 3. System Hooks
 4. Tracing program execution
 5. Invoking Garbage Collection: WeakRef

Hour 2: Object Model
——-
 1. Interaction between Classes and Objects
 2. Object space
 3. Freezing objects
 4. Tainted objects
 5. Marshaling Objects

Hour 3: Networking and Databases
——-
 1. Net Library: ftp/http/smtp/telnet/pop3
 2. DBI Library
 3. Threading
 4. DRb/Rinda
 5. SOAP/XMLRPC

Hour 4: Web
——
 1. CGI Library
 2. Templating engines: ERB, Amrita
 3. REXML
 4. Redcloth/Bluecloth
 5. YAML
 6. Webservers: Webrick, Mongrel

Hour 5: Extending/Embedding Ruby      
——-           ——-
 1. Ruby in C         
 2. C in Ruby   

 3. JRuby         
 4. Ruby.NET

Hour 6: Case Study
——-
 1. Write a complete application: tests first!
 2. Create a gem
 3. Document using Rdoc
 4. Publish it on Rubyforge
 5. Announce it to the mailing list
——————————————————————–

Day 3 – Rails Quick Start

   1. Generating a Rails application: Intro to MVC
   2. Developing a simple Rails application
   3. Views & Controllers
   4. Cleaning your views with Layouts
   5. ActionController filters

——————————————————————–
Day 4 – Intermediate Rails

   1. Connecting to a database: ActiveRecord
   2. ActiveRecord filters and observers
   3. Setting up a schema with Active Record Migrations
   4. Unit tests and fixtures
   5. Functional testing in Rails
   6. Integration Testing

——————————————————————–

Day 5 – Advanced Rails

   1. AJAX and RJS
   2. Advanced Active Record associations with polymorphic joins
   3. Deployment and scaling
   4. Rails performance optimization
   5. Developing Plugins
   6. Developing Engines





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Ruby on Rails Workshop

11 06 2006

 Kansas City Ruby User's Group (http://kcrug.org/) proudly presents the first "Ruby on Rails Workshop" for those eager to get started into Ruby on Rails. This one-and-half-day workshop will offer a quick introduction to Ruby and the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

 Sponsored by Reevik, Inc., it will provide web developers with a basic understanding of the concepts, tools and tips needed to build full-featured web applications using Ruby on Rails.

 The workshop is spread over three half-day sessions on June 19th, 20th, and 21st. Here are the details:

 Days:         June 19th, 20th, 21st.

Time:         5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Venue:        Overland Park Community Center,
             Room 204,
             6300W. 87th Street,
             Overland Park, KS 66212, USA
             (913) 895-6390
http://www.opkansas.org/_Res/Parks_and_Recreation/Places/Community_Centers/opcc.cfm

 Fees:         $150.00 (payable in check only, at the door)

Max Limit:    25 attendees

RSVP:         shanko_date (at) yahoo dot com

Speaker:      Shashank Date, Founder Member, KCRUG

 Speaker Bio:  Shashank has been using Ruby for over four years both professionally and on his hobby projects. He has been dabbling with the Ruby on Rails framework since its inception, although professionally only since early this year. He is actively involved in various open source projects using Ruby and is the co-editor of the online zine "Ruby Code & Style" (