A great getting started would be peepcode.com, $9 screencast worth every penny. Also have a look at railscasts.com, free pretty good.
Any programmer with previous experience and a bit of an mvc background should be able to get pretty far with these resources. ---- Kevin Baker Sr Software Engineer Sorenson Media On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Markle <[email protected]> wrote: > This is just the information I need - thanks so much! The courses > sound like exactly what I'm after but it doesn't look like any are > coming up in the near future. I have signed up to be notified if/when. > > Personal training probably wouldn't make *as* much sense. We'll be > training one person up as a maintenance developer to start with - we > rely pretty heavily on a single external contractor right now and I'd > love to free him up from minor bug fixes and feature enhancements to > really concentrate on core platform extension. > > On Dec 29, 3:35 pm, James Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Marc, >> >> Chiming in on the Pragmatic Studio training, I just attended the >> Mastering >> Ruby and Rails course (http://pragmaticstudio.com/mastering-ruby-rails >> ) at >> the beginning of December, and would highly recommend it to anyone >> looking >> for advanced Ruby/Rails training. Chad and Dave are fantastic. >> They also >> offer the more introductory Ruby on Rails course >> (http://pragmaticstudio.com/rails >> ), but you'd need to keep an eye out for >> when/where that's being held next. Depending on the size of your >> team and >> your budget, I know they offer personal training where they come to >> you as >> well. >> >> That said, I agree with Nick that there are so many fantastic >> resources out >> there so I'd recommend giving those a chance before going with >> classroom >> training, especially on the introductory side. If you're >> interested in >> these resources, let us know and I'm sure we'll all chime in with our >> favorites. >> >> James >> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Nick Zadrozny >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Marc, >> >>> Welcome to SDRuby and to Rails! >> >>> There have definitely been some Ruby on Rails courses at UCSD >>> extension in >>> the past, but I'm not sure about how often they have been >>> repeated. It looks >>> like there isn't anything upcoming there. >> >>> This is a question that's gone around a couple of times. I'm sure >>> plenty of >>> folks will have good recommendations on resources for you. There >>> are tons of >>> good books out there, screencasts, and so on. But aside from self- >>> education, >>> I understand it's sometimes more time- and cost-effective to go >>> for some >>> kind of intense in-person training. >> >>> One thing we do have here in San Diego is a lot of very good Rails >>> developers who would be happy to offer Ruby on Rails training, or >>> already do >>> in some capacity. There have even been talks from time to time >>> about putting >>> together a kind of "getting up to speed" seminar some time, if >>> there was >>> sufficient interest from the community. So there's always that. >> >>> As far as existing training seminars go, I've heard good things >>> about the >>> Pragmatic Studio Ruby on Rails training. I'm not entirely sure >>> where those >>> are located, though, or what kind of schedule they're offered on. >>> I think we >>> may have one or two people on the SDRuby list that have been to >>> one of >>> those, maybe they can chime in with more information. >> >>> Sorry, my answers are a bit vague on specifics, but hopefully they >>> help get >>> the discussion rolling a bit. >> >>> -- >>> Nick Zadrozny >> >>> -- >>> SD Ruby mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> >> > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
