The ultimate Rails experience - Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp near Frankfurt, Germany, August 25-29, 2008

Big Nerd Ranch Europe announces a new class for the experienced Ruby on Rails programmer. Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp taught by Charles Brian Quinn is offered for the first time August 25-29, 2008. The intensive five-day class is held at the distraction-free setting of Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany. Ruby on Rails has obtained a tremendous popularity among Web developers in recent years and with its robust framework, is the basis of many real-world applications all over the Web. Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is for developers who like to bring their Ruby on Rails skills to the next level and beyond.

Participants save Euro 200 when signing up before July 18, 2008.

For best results, students should have a basic understanding of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, have done some development, produced a Ruby on Rails application or worked on one in a team. Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is the ideal continuation for students of our basic Ruby and Rails Bootcamp, who have done some development in the meantime and are eager to learn what's beyond.

Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to class. Former students loved the "late night coding sessions with Charles". His extensive knowledge of Ruby on Rails allows him to customize the course to our students needs and speak on topics that may not even be in the outline.

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

- Advanced Ruby: Arguments, Hashes/Arrays in Depth, Metaprogramming, ActiveSupport
- Test Driven Development, RSpec/Behavior Driven Design
- Advanced ActiveRecord Associations
- Building RESTful interfaces, utilizing ActiveResource
- Session management: switching from pstore to ARstore/SQLStore, memcache store
- Writing plugins, writing gems (setting up gem server), sharing libraries, writing your own acts_as_xxxx, Contributing to Rails
- Localization: i8n, L10n, Unicode, globalization
- Deployment - setting up servers, capistrano, managing, production servers (tuning)

Instructor Charles Brian Quinn, a partner at Highgroove Studios, has the ability to provide catered, simple, and easy-to-follow training. 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 Ruby on Rails, 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."

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

Related Links:
Full class description of Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp: http://bignerdranch.com/classes/advanced_ruby_on_rails.shtml
About the instructor Charles B. Quinn: http://bignerdranch.com/instructors/quinn.shtml
To register for class: http://bignerdranch.com/RegistrationForm?cid=1116