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Get Started With Ruby On Rails

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You've heard the hype about Rails and you're excited about it - but how do you get started? Well, we've lined up one of the world's leading Rails developers, Geoffrey Grosenbach, to give you an intensive one day workshop

You've heard the hype about Rails and you're excited about it - but how do you get started? Well, Carson Workshops have lined up one of the world's leading Rails developers, Geoffrey Grosenbach, to give you an intensive one day workshop.

Following on from their one-day 800-strong Future Of Web Apps conference, Carson Workshops present a one day workshop: Get Started with Rails.

Workshop leader Geoffrey Grosenbach is hightly respected in the Rails community. "Geoffrey has been one of the most enthusiastic members of the Rails community for a long time," says David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails. "Between running the Rails Podcast and releasing great plugins like Gruff, Sparkline, and CSS Graphs, he's a big-time, valuable contributor."

With Rails, you can write clean, effective and elegant code - Geoff will show you how to get started. After you've finished this one day workshop, you'll have all the know-how to get started.

The workshop is followied by a social, starting at 7pm.

Bookings & Further Details:
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/dev/rubyonrails/30MAR2006.html

Location

The Worx, 10 Heathman's Road, Parsons Green, London, SW6 4TJ.