Learning Ruby – A Ruby tutorial by Satish Talim

My good friend, Satish Talim has put together an excellent site – Learning Ruby.

This is based on his Ruby study notes made while he studied Ruby himself, from various online Ruby resources like tutorials, blogs and Ruby documentation. A site I would definitely recommend for Ruby newbies.

Those who are interested to learn the language,this is a good starting point.Happy coding.

PuneRuby Group – 373 members and still growing

The PuneRuby group that Satish and I started in Nov.2005 now has 373 members.If I am not wrong,we are one of the biggest Ruby groups in the world,if not the biggest.

Kudos to all the members.And this happened in a span of less than a year.

You can find more about the group here.

My interview in LinuxForYou

LinuxForYou published my interview in their September 2006 issue.

Thanks LFY.

Launch of IndiaonRails

We started IndiaonRails in Sept.2006.

To subscribe to the mailing list, send a blank email to list-subscribe@indiaonrails.com

Reposting Pratik’s welcome message to the group

Hi Guys,

We’re around 15 people now on this list. So I thought I’d send a welcome message.The main purpose of this group is to unite rails developers of India.We have a couple of ruby mailing lists in India,but nothing for rails.And a community has to be more than just a mailing list.Dibya and I have been thinking about this for a while, and we didn’t just start it coz we thought I’d be cool.We have a set of goals behind this, which I’ll make clear below.

Currently, Pragathi is working on the website design for IndiaOnRails.com. The website will have the following sections :

- News
Where members can post about news/activities/events related to IndiaOnRails.com community.

- Planet
This is aggregation of all member blogs. Something like planetrubyonrails.org

- Projects
IndiaOnRails supported projects. Right now, Dibya is involved with Symbiosis students in an initiative called “OSI Labs”. I’m also planning to help Dibya with a couple of Rails projects that some students are doing. Same way, any student should be able to join our community and
seek help with their rails related projects. Also, members can seek help with their open source projects.

- Job board
This will be for companies/individuals seeking RFPs from Indian companies/developers. I’m not sure if we should have this section right away.

- Freelancers
Members will be able to put their small profile here if they’re interested in working on rails as freelancer.

- Companies
Profiles of Indian companies working with rails. But this section will be moderated.

- Showcase
Showcase of India related rails websites. This will be a moderated section too.

- Community
Just some info on mailing list, etc.

Please post here if you have any suggestions about the website.

The primary goals of this group are :

- Help newbies learn rails
- Support students doing rails related projects
- Provide free hosting for member blogs, SVN, etc.
- Eventually, organize events like RailsConf.
- Help freelancers fetching more projects
- Build a professional network, so that people who are already rails professionals, they can exchange help/info whenever required.

That’s all for now !

Best,
Pratik

Innovation Worskhop – Our training venture

Innovation Workshop is a joint initiative of Reevik Technologies and Better Labs.

We conducted our first Ruby and Ruby on Rails workshop on 1st and 2nd Sept.2006.Around 15 people attended the workshop;the next set of workshops will be announced in next a few days.

We are very passionate about this new venture and have big plans for the same.The next set of workshops would be in Ruby and Rails,Agile Development and J2ME.

Open Source Initiative Labs

I must thanks Prof.Harshad Gune from SICSR,Pune for his help and support.

Reevik is comitted to advocate use of Open Source Software and Shashank also agreed to the idea of starting a student internship program.

For this year we are working with a couple of students of Msc-CA,1st Year on various projects mainly on Ruby/Rails and J2ME.

We are planning to name the entire exercise as osilabs.in,which will be continous effort in the coming years.

The website is due anytime now,I will update as soon as it comes.

Back after a long time

I am blogging after a long time;it’s not that I am great blogger,forget of being great,I am not even a miniscule blogger.

I have been swamped with work and travels and I had a real hectic life (again,that’s nothing great as who is not busy).

Lot of things happened in the past couple of months:

1.I am speaking in various educational institutes:

a.It started with Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research(SICSR),Pune.I spoke to the First Year Msc.CA students about Open Source Software.I have always enjoyed talking in SICSR,Pune.

b.The next was Naralkar Institute.I spoke to the Second Year MCM students on Open Source Software.It was great to interact with the faculties and students.A very professionaly managed institute.

Ruby Talks:

a.Institute of Management and Career courses.I spoke to the students of MCM Second Year on Open Source and Ruby.The faculties and the students were very cordial.I hope some of the students liked the talk and more importantly the language.Ruby has a magnetic effect on the programmers;it’s simplicity draws the instant attention of the programmers.

b.The next was Naralkar Institute.I spoke to the Second Year MCM students on Ruby.

c.Suryadatta Group of Institutes,Pune