Harvest time for your Ruby on Rails skills

Big Nerd Ranch Europe announces its favored Ruby on Rails Bootcamp taught by Charles Brian Quinn is coming back, October 8-12, 2007. The intensive five-day class is again held at the distraction-free setting of Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany. Ruby on Rails with its robust framework has obtained a tremendous popularity among Web developers in recent years. For developers, web designers, and project managers in companies and organizations of all kinds and sizes, Ruby on Rails is ideal, if interested in creating web-based, database-backed applications, internal as well as client-facing.

Participants save Euro 200 when signing up before August 31, 2007.

For best results, students should have some basic knowledge of web sites, and basic programming principles like if/else, objects, methods, and data. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to class. Former students loved the "late night coding sessions with Charles" in addition to the rich set of topics during class. His extensive knowledge of Ruby on Rails allows Charles Brian Quinn to customize the course to the students needs and speak on topics that may not be in the outline.

The bootcamp is a five-day, exhaustive examination of the key aspects of Ruby development on the Rails framework necessary to producing master-level developers. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- An introduction to Ruby on Rails and an examination of what Rails is and isn't
- A detailed look at the Rails Model View Controller (MVC)
- Active Record Patterns (models, tables and attributes)
- Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) functions
- Action Controllers and Action View
- Testing controllers and models, creating mock objects, assertions, and debugging
- Routing requests, creating patterns and error-handling
- Request Filters and Callbacks
- AJAX, Action Mailer, XML, Web Services, generating RSS feed
- Benchmarking, Caching, Deployment and Capistrano configuration

Instructor Charles Brian Quinn with his ability to provide catered, simple, and easy-to-follow training and curriculum design, has taught this class previously with Highgroove Studios, where he is a partner. In addition, he is a founder of Slingshot Hosting for Ruby on Rails business hosting, and an active member of the Ruby on Rails community. His engaging and energetic teaching style and rich experience in Ruby on Rails development positions him as an extraordinary instructor.

Commenting on the class, Mr. Quinn said, "Ruby on Rails provides an ideal synthesis between Ruby's Japanese simplicity and Rail's Danish design principles and has achieved its hallmark excellence thanks to the passionate devotion of its stalwart and loyal creators, users and promoters. It provides an excellent alternative to configuration and code-laden Java, the limitations and clunky code of ASP.net, and a more comprehensive and sophisticated solution to design, code and maintenance issues with PHP."

Read more about Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, including the complete syllabus, at http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/ruby.shtml or our instructor Charles B. Quinn at http://www.bignerdranch.com/ instructors/quinn.shtml.

Related Links:

Ruby on Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.org/
Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, including complete syllabus: http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/ruby.shtml
Learn more about Charles Brian Quinn: http://www.bignerdranch.com/instructors/quinn.shtml
To register for Ruby on Rails Bootcamp: http://www.bignerdranch.com/register.php?cid=1026