[NWRUG] Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Robinson
I've been asked by a client to deliver a training programme for Ruby on Rails. Because of the target audience (experienced developers, but not necessarily Ruby or web programmers), I'm giving it a re-vamp. One of my bugbears is that currently training is all back-to-front: it focuses on

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-07 Thread Gem
I'd be very interested in being a Guinea Pig! ( : Gem On Oct 7, 11:48 am, Paul Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked by a client to deliver a training programme for Ruby   on Rails. Because of the target audience (experienced developers, but   not necessarily Ruby or web

[NWRUG] Re: can't install mongrel (and many other gems) on Cygwin

2008-10-07 Thread Francis Fish
When I developed on Windows I tend to use the windows stuff and the windows gems, you don't need cygwin to run a development environment. I used to run a kind of hybrid where I would run the console from Cygwin and mongrel etc. from the Dos command line. That's what worked for me. Recently I

[NWRUG] Re: can't install mongrel (and many other gems) on Cygwin

2008-10-07 Thread Francis Fish
I forgot - Also installed the GNU for windows tools, plus cygwin MySQL client (or the command recall stuff just doesn't work and you get a blank screen). You don't have to run mongrel for development anyway - you could run webrick. Production systems are a different matter of course. On Tue, Oct