I think this suggestion is spot on; best mode of learning. There are a number of lib.s, etc., which would be fun to code something up for, and it helps you see how others are using standard toolsets.
For ruby newbies perhaps even a hands on night with some training for using TextMate and rspec, etc.. Cheers, Nicholas On Jan 29, 11:35 am, Rob Caporetto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 10:35 am, Clifford Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'd like to propose a different kind of night, that could alternate > > with a more regular meeting... a "play-along" night. That is, a > > night where someone comes prepared to lead everyone, each > > on their own laptop, through installing, configuring, and *using*, > > some cool Ruby thing. Like a hands-on training workshop. Each > > such night to have a theme - music, or story-based testing, or > > PDF generation, or JQuery, or ... you can think of more. > > > The basic idea is to not be a passive audience, but to participate. > > I certain am a fan of this - I certainly find there's a number of > libraries or tools I'd kill to play around with, but with the > combination of work & whatnot, I find there's never a chance to find a > small project to actually implement them in. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
