At the Melbourne Ruby users group we held a session to introduce people to Ruby and Rails. This is my presentation which gave the rough overview of Rails.

1. Ruby on Rails
From Zero to Hero

2. Who am I?
John Barton, Web Developer
http://whoisjohnbarton.com
http://alltimetop5.com

3. Zero to Hero?

4. What I really mean is the
transition between knowing
nothing about Rails to having
deployed a full application into
the wild

5. I thought about putting some hippie slide about
learning Rails being a “journey” not a
destination and so on.
Thankfully I thought better of it and skipped it

6. What is Rails?
Why should I learn Rails?
How does this “journey”
thing go?

7. Rails is...

8. ...an opinionated web framework

9. MVC

10. ActiveRecord takes care
of everything you are sick
of doing over and over
and over again

12. Why?

13. productivity

14. maintainability

15. what if I can’t use Rails in production?

16. you will learn best practice via the path of least resistance
then apply it at your day job
then get annoyed at why your co-workers don’t get it

17. How?

18. Get hands on!
Watch the 10 minute blog video
Build an app!

19. but....

20. It won’t take long before you hit a wall
this wall is called “the Rails way”
most things are easy done the Rails way, but it takes a
while to grok it

21. Everyone in the Ruby and Rails community has
had to go through this transition
We want to do everything we can to help you

22. Who am I, again?
John Barton, Web Developer
http://whoisjohnbarton.com
http://alltimetop5.com