Teaching Rails and Embracing Fails

## About the talk

RailsBridge is an international non-profit organisation that provides free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends. In July 2013, after a lot of emails and Skype calls, a handful of Cape Town developers got together and started running regular RailsBridge workshops, creating a fork of the open source documentation and materials.

This talk discusses our journey over the past year and some bits. It covers how we've used agile principles and how we try and embrace continuous improvement. It'll also cover what's in the curriculum, the fun we've had with pushes and pulls, and answer the big question: "Should everybody learn to code?". Improvements and Pull Requests are always welcome, and hopefully at least one will come from you. Yes, *you*.

You will get a sticker at the end of the talk.

## About Steve

Steve is a Londoner who escaped to Cape Town in 2004. He has a background in maths and finance, but these days does Front-end dev and User Experience stuff at Praekelt. He became interested in RailsBridge workshops after hearing about them at Rubyfuza a few year ago.

He’s a bit addicted to meetups: you can find him helping out with RailsBridge Cape Town, Cape Town Front-End Developers, and SPIN. Or possibly crouched in an awkward position in front of something funny-looking, taking pictures of it.

Transcript

1. Teaching Rails and Embracing Fails Steve Barnett @maxbarners naga.co.za/ctrb
2. Take Note
4. What we'll cover RailsBridge Teaching Rails Embracing Fails
5. Should everybody learn to code?
6. Should everybody learn to code? NO
7. RailsBridge
8. Free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends
9. What happens at a RailsBridge? Friday: InstallFest Saturday: workshop
10. RailsBridge (RSA)
11. The Agiles
12. Why RailsBridge?
13. Teaching Rails
16. Ruby 2.0.0-p481 :001 > fruits = ["kiwi", "strawberry", "plum"]
17. Rails rails generate scaffold topic title:string description:text
18. Git git commit -m "Added all the things"
19. Routes root 'topics#index'
20. Deploy to Heroku heroku create git push heroku master heroku run rake db:migrate
21. Models rails generate model vote topic_id:integer
22. More Models class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :votes, dependent: :destroy end
23. Controllers def upvote @topic = Topic.find(params[:id]) @topic.votes.create redirectto(topicspath) end
24. MVC app
25. What could possibly go wrong?
26. Embracing Fails ¯\_(
    )_/¯
27. !
28. InstallFest !
29. Looking at nitrous.io !
30. Infrequent, inflexible !
31. Mix it up ! Other courses Bring a buddy
32. Workshop !
33. More pics and words !
34. Breaks !
35. Lightning talks !
38. Missing ScrumMasters !
39. Ping ping ping !
40. Few women teachers !
41. Ping ping ping !
42. What now? !
43. RailsBridgeBridge !? (actually !)
44. More RailsBridge, more of the time !
45. What we covered RailsBridge Teaching Rails Embracing Fails
47. +1
48. Join us! :) Next one: May 29th and 30th
49. Thank you Steve Barnett @maxbarners naga.co.za/ctrb