From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T05:24:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Crash Course on Speed for Ruby

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> Damphyr wrote:
> 
>> Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge 
>> about various tools and methods we use and we usually have three hours 
>> for a subject.
>> Since me and a couple of my colleagues have used Ruby extensively to 
>> the benefit of our projects there is a growing interest about the 
>> language ( ;) nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make 
>> the deadlines when you want to attract attention ).
>> Now, I know that you can't teach someone Ruby in three hours, but the 
>> audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good 
>> theoretical and practical backgrounds, so we only need to provide a 
>> highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it's course 
>> (anyone ever thought that Ruby pulls programmers minds like a black 
>> hole pulls matter? The closer you get the harder it gets to get away. 
>> And you need to be very far away to have any hope of escaping :) )
>> So I'll stop rumbling and get to the question:
>> Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how 
>> we could put together a three hour Ruby workshop?
>> I can't help but think that someone from those .rb teams out there has 
>> already thought something up.
>> And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, 
>> although I haven't yet found one that can serve as a good introductory 
>> workshop example.
>> Cheers,
>> V.-
>>
> 
> http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html
> 
> Though you better ask for permission first :)
Niaghhhhh, I get the urge to strangle DHH sometimes :).
As much as I like Rails I haven't written a single line of Ruby code 
using it (and I scored a decent 47 with the ruby score script ;) ) and I 
don't feel good about the latest trend of sticking with Rails examples 
whenever introducing Ruby.
Notice: the above presentation might just as well be a presentation 
about Rails (it looks like that anyway). It's just that lately I find 
myself having to explain that Ruby is a *lot* more than Rails and hence 
the urge to strangle DHH :).

That said, if I decided using the slides I'd take the first 16 and use 
Rake or Rant for a DSL example since that applies more to my line of 
work :).

Cheers,
V.-
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