One thing I've had a lot of success with in the past is to have an employee sit down with contractor or other developer who already knows Rails. Pair programming can be a great learning environment. I've had several clients who needed to get things done, but also wanted to learn how to do Rails from an expert. It seems to me that given the cost of training and the fact that you're getting the things you need done now done to be a good investment.
Best, Rob On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 20:37, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Rob Kaufman http://notch8.com gtalk/jabber/email: [email protected] p: 858-412-7749 f: 866-477-1620
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