Hi James,

Don't know about courses but peepcode have a series of video tutorials
on rspec.

With regard to design patterns, I'd recommend the "Head First Design
Patterns" book. It can be a pretty dry subject but I found this was
something I could read cover to cover. If you're just doing rails you
probably don't need to know much about patterns but if you want to
build your own systems then they're very useful.

I think also that a lot of the design patterns you'll see are focused
on static classical languages (eg c++/java/c#). A lot of things just
don't apply in Ruby (eg design by interface, favour composition over
inheritence etc).

Regards
Ritchie

On May 13, 2:28 pm, James Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend any courses, ideally online or in Sydney, on any of the
> following:
>
> Design Patterns, ideally Ruby/Rails specific
> RSpec
> Programming Securely, also ideally Ruby/Rails specific
> HTML 5
>
> How useful does everyone find design patterns by the way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- James
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