Workshop Description

This workshop is intended to reach out to women who are interested in learning Ruby on Rails. Men are welcome to come if you find a woman who wants to learn Ruby on Rails and come together. RailsBridge is emphatically queer and trans* friendly.

In this workshop, we'll take you through building a complete web application using Ruby on Rails. By the end of the day, you'll have an application that connects to a database and reads and writes information. Please come to the Installfest if your laptop is not set up for Ruby on Rails development. We'll meet up on Friday to install all of the software you need, and then spend Saturday learning and writing code. Programmers of all skill levels are welcome.

We're trying something new!

Been to our workshop before? We're switching up this workshop and experimenting with a new type of Installfest that will use Vagrant instead of our regular environment set up. This time around we're only opening registration for 25 students!

It's extremely important that if you sign up to attend this workshop that you can attend both the Installfest and the entire workshop the next day. We want to be able to switch over our Install process but want to make sure it works before opening it up to more students.

Sponsors

Dev Bootcamp
Dev Bootcamp is the first short-term, immersive bootcamp that transforms beginners into full-stack web developers in 19 weeks (9 weeks remote part-time + 9 weeks on-site full time + 1 week career prep).

Cipher Health
Cipher Health is a healthcare technology company committed to improving patient outcomes and experiences through enhanced communication and care team coordination.

Thoughtbot
Focusing on user outcomes & simplicity, Thoughtbot minimizes risk and increase your product’s success with quality code & quality humans.

Gust
Gust is a global SaaS funding platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments.

Transportation

Take the [2, 3] to Wall St, or the [J, Z] to Broad St.

Food and Drinks

We will have food at the Installfest, and provide students with breakfast and lunch at the workshop.
Note - We will try our best to accommodate vegan and gluten-free diets, but we cannot guarantee it.

Childcare

If you are interested in childcare, please respond to us by March 1, 2016. After that, we will NOT be able to accommodate new childcare requests.

Afterparty

We will have a short party after the event with light refreshments, so please join us and network with our sponsors and fellow attendees!