RUBY ON RAILS WORKSHOP

 We had a two day workshop on ‘RUBY ON RAILS’ organized under the FOSS cell of Government Engineering College Sreekrishnapuram  from 18^th January 2014 to 19^th 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.