Intro to Ruby and RubyOnRails

Speaker:
Aaron Bartell

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 2:00pm

"Rails is an open-source web framework written in the Ruby language that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.”

Are all these statements true? That’s what we aim to find out by creating a small application from start to finish and calling out the various features of the Rails framework and how useful they are. We will also go through certain aspects of the Ruby language so you can learn why it is considered to have an elegant syntax that is easy to read and write. Not sold yet? Check out what James Duncan Davidson, creator of Apache Tomcat and Ant, has to say about Rails:

“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."

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Aaron Bartell is co-founder of PowerRuby.com, a partnership with IBM to bring the Ruby language and Rails framework to IBM i. His history takes him through many years with RPG and Java programming, but his current focus is bringing the many cool realities of RubyOnRails to IBM i. He enjoys being part of the IBM i community through forum participation, article writing and providing open source software on his personal website - MowYourLawn.com. Aaron finds value in pursuing how he can use his abilities to benefit those in need. He started the site SofwareSavesLives.com as a mechanism to raise money for digging clean water wells in Africa, feeding starving children, and camps for neglected children. Aaron lives with his wife and five children in southern Minnesota and enjoys playing guitar, studying the Bible, and learning about other people's beliefs. Aaron accidentally bought “skinny jeans” but refused to take them back because they were such a great deal. His wife doesn’t like the jeans because they are bright red - maybe why they were on sale? Who knows why they are on sale, but Aaron does know they sure do stretch well when taking long strides trying to escape bears in the Minnesota woods. Warning: Portions of this biography might be slightly fabricated.

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