From RAD Lab

NEW: Video of our 1-day RoR short course now on YouTube.

Contents 1 Ruby on Rails at UC Berkeley 2 General Overview of our Efforts 3 Learning and Honing RoR Skills: Courses, activities, etc. 4 Connect With Others 5 Get RoR and Dev Tools

Ruby on Rails at UC Berkeley

This page contains links and information about the RAD Lab's efforts to build and develop the Ruby on Rails (RoR) developer community at UC Berkeley.

We believe RoR will play a prominent role in the future development and deployment of Web 2.0 applications, and to that end, we're working hard to develop expertise, courses, community, and tools around this versatile and important framework. Links to many of these are collected on this page, though not everything linked to is maintained by the RAD Lab.

General Overview of our Efforts

• RubyOnRails.berkeley.edu: Building the RoR Community at UCB. This talk is updated every 6 months as our community-building continues.
  • PowerPoint slides from Summer 2008
  • PowerPoint slides from Winter 2008
  • PowerPoint slides from Summer 2007
  • Poster from Summer 2007

Learning and Honing RoR Skills: Courses, activities, etc.

• Materials from previous iterations of CS98-10/CS198-10 (thru Spring 08), and for the new (Fall 08) CS194-4, are here. The archived materials from CS98/CS198 have lots of good suggestions for online and print materials to help you learn RoR and related technologies (XML, CSS/XHTML, JavaScript, AJAX, etc.)
• The RAD Lab's 1-day intensive RoR short course (based on Rails 1.3): course materials and UCB-hosted Webcast, plus the webcast is also on YouTube.
• There are official undergraduate courses on RoR taught by RAD Lab faculty. Check this page for current offering.
• PeepCode: If you're a current student in one of our RoR classes, we have a time-limited PeepCode licenses for you to use. If, and only if, you're officially registered for one of these courses via BearFacts, ask us about getting a license.

Connect With Others

• Meetups: The third Tuesday of every month, at 6pm in 306 Soda Hall, RoR developers (students as well as pros) gather to hear technical talks. All are welcome; refreshments sponsored by the RAD Lab. We also allow 60-second recruiting "pitches" by companies in the RoR space.
• ror-announce mailing list lets you keep up with important RoR-related announcements at UCB. Anyone may subscribe. Send email to [sympa@lists.eecs.berkeley.edu] with subject subscribe ror-announce.
• Coming Spring 2009: An extracurricular DeCAL-based RoR/Web 2.0 Developers Club open to all. Watch this space.

Get RoR and Dev Tools

• Taking a class or just want to get started with RoR? Here's our recommended RoR setup and installation instructions for Mac OS X and Windows.
• A campus-wide site license (CalNet ID required) for TextMate for Mac OS X is available at UCB Software Central.