This document introduces the Los Angeles Ruby community. It provides biographies of Jeff Dickey and Greg Buckner, who teach Ruby on Rails at General Assembly, and discusses how Yukihiro Matz created Ruby to make programming enjoyable and how David Heinemeier Hansson extracted Rails from Basecamp. It also lists some benefits of Rails like building things faster with CRUD and testing. Finally, it promotes General Assembly's Back-End Web Development and Web Development Immersive courses and lists local Ruby events and groups in Los Angeles.
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INTRODUCTION TO
THE LOS ANGELES
RUBY COMMUNITY
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JEFF DICKEY
GREG BUCKNER
Teacher for BEWD
TA for BEWD!
Lead Engineer for ProductionBeast
Cofounder & Back-end engineer for Raft!
Web developer for 10+ years
Learned Rails through GA!
Previously a PM
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RUBY
Matz made programming enjoyable with Ruby in 1995
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DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON
DHH extracted Rails from Basecamp in 2004
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WHAT MAKES RAILS GOOD?
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BUILD THINGS FASTER WITH CRUD
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HAPPINESS!
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TESTING
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WHO IS USING RUBY ON RAILS?
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WHO IS USING RUBY ON RAILS?
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I WANT TO MAKE COOL APPS TOO!
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ONLINE
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IN PERSON
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BACK-END WEB DEVELOPMENT
Ten weeks. Two days per week.
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WEB DEVELOPMENT IMMERSIVE
Twelve weeks. All day, every day.
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RUBY IN LOS ANGELES
• Annual LA Ruby Conf
• LA Ruby Monthly Meetup, Weekly Study Group
• Pivotal Labs Weekly Pair Exchange / Round Table Code for America Brigade
• Carbon Five Hack Night every Wednesday
• Code for America Brigade
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CONTACT
JEFF DICKEY
@DICKEYXXX
GREG BUCKNER
@THEBUCKNERLIFE