MVC, DRY, convention over configuration. Those are important concepts in rails. However, in a presentation a lenghtly talk about these things are probably going to be pretty boring. And its not something that student programmers may apprechiate as much as experienced programmers.
I would spend a short amount of time on that and then move on to showing actual code. Stuff that looks a bit impressive, like the ajax helpers, model validation, how to interact with the database without writing any SQL. Josh Cheek wrote: > Hi, I'm going to give a talk on Rails to my campus ACM group in about > two > weeks. I'm trying to think of ideas. The 15 minute blog is great, and > I'd > kind of like to do something like that, but I can't do better than DHH > or > Ryan have, and if they look into it more, they'll come across that > pretty > quickly. > > I can do some live examples like that, or I can do a keynote / > powerpoint > style presentation. > > Does anyone have any ideas for something simple enough to go through in > an > hour, for someone with intermediate Rails skills, that would give a > basic > idea of how Rails works? > > If you were going to give a presentation, what kinds of things would you > talk about? My audience will mostly be non web developers, and the web > developers that will be there will mostly be php and possibly Java. > They'll > all be CS students, grad and undergrad, possibly a professor or two, but > not > very likely. Maybe 20-30 people. > > Any ideas or advice are welcome, thanks :) > -Josh -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
