We had a two day workshop on ‘RUBY
ON RAILS’ organized under
the FOSS cell of Government Engineering College Sreekrishnapuram from 18th
January 2014 to 19th
January 2014.
The resource person, Mr.
Sumit M Ashok, is an engineer
currently serving BangTheTable
as their Developer with Ruby on rails.
First
Session started with an introduction to Git, a version control tool
and later the class was mainly confined to the basic concepts of
Ruby, object oriented concepts of the language, classes, objects and
methods. The session was very interesting due to the simple and
interactive mode of teaching.
Second
session dealt with more complex concepts of the language like
operators, iterators and the concept of Meta programming as well as
the use and actions possible on arrays. The class came to an end with
a detailed description on request response cycle (MVC).
Second day morning session covered fundamental ideas of ruby on rails, a review
of concepts like model, view, controller and their interconnections.
The class gave a very smooth introduction to RVM, GEMS and RAILS
along with the concepts of web application development.
The
afternoon session was a practical implementation of the previously
learned concepts. The students were ably guided in working on ruby on
rails console and further created a simple web page.
On the whole this workshop on ‘Ruby on
Rails' with Mr. Sumit was really a whole new experience, and was
really helpful in gaining some basic knowledge on Ruby as a language
and web development using Ruby on rails. The programming concepts
learned will be very useful in establishing a carrier as a
programmer.
