On a somewhat related note, I feel that for the next newbie night, there should be more emphasis on why we do things, rather than the how. Getting into Ruby on Rails is not an easy task especially when everyone is telling you to test, worry about architecture, performance and security.
It might be obvious to the rest of us, but personally I don't fully understood concepts until the "why" made sense to me. For example, I never fully understood testing until I had an app grow big and complex and had to deal with bugs. I feel it's more valuable to guide people to make mistakes that everyone once made, then teach them how to fix them. Just my 2c. chendo On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 4:41 PM, Pat Allan wrote: > Hi Richard > > I think the night was definitely a success - we had maybe 90 people along, > most of whom hadn't been to more than one Melbourne Ruby meet previously. I > had plenty of people tell me they found it useful, though I think there's > still room for improvement (I know I struggled with condensing the topic of > RSpec into a lightning-ish talk). > > Next time something like this happens, I'm thinking we should run an > installfest first (rather than our intro night last month, and installfest > next month), but I'll certainly be making an effort to line up beginner talks > to mix in amongst the more experienced topics at the coming Melbourne Ruby > meets. > > And even though I'm an organiser now (and perhaps more than a touch biased > generally), I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment - I've managed to > visit several Ruby meets around the world, and Melbourne (and Australia > generally) has something pretty special going on when it comes to the Ruby > community. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 29/08/2013, at 11:42 PM, Richard McGain wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Despite moving to Canada, I am still on the roro list so I noticed that you > > guys did a newbie night. How did it go? Were there many newbies there and > > did they find it useful? We are thinking about doing something similar here > > in Montreal (possibly combining it with an install fest). > > > > Having been to a bunch of different ruby meetups in various cities, > > Melbourne ranks as the friendliest and most useful I have been to, so > > thanks! > > > > Richard. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:rails-oceania@googlegroups.com). > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rails-oceania@googlegroups.com). > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
