OTUG September 20 2005 Meeting

Date:	September 20, 2005 (Third Tuesday)
Time:	5:30 - 7:00 Food and Socializing 7:00 - 10:00 Two-part lecture with a break for snackss
Location:	O'Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium
Topic:	Ruby on Rails presented by Obie Fernandez
Slides:	PowerPoint Slides from the presentation

Summary

Obie Fernandez, technologist from ThoughtWorks, will present his enthusiastic introduction to Ruby on Rails. The talk starts with the fundamentals of programming with Ruby, then covers what you need to know to start using Rails via an interactive demo. The basics of the Rails APIs are covered as well as the cutting-edge AJAX features that are a standard part of the framework.

In case you haven't heard the industry buzz about Ruby on Rails yet, here are some selected quotes:

James Duncan Davidson (Apache): Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a few web servers from scratch. Nobody has done it like this before."

Tim O'Reilly: "The other scripting language (in addition to Perl, Python, and PHP) that we’re paying a lot more attention to these days is Ruby. The Ruby On Rails framework has taking the world by storm, and has gone one up on PHP in terms of making database backed application programming a piece of cake."

Rails is available at www.rubyonrails.org.

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