Ruby on Rails - Seriously: They Laughed When I Learned Ruby on Rails But When I Started to Build Web Applications...

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Ruby on Rails is a full-featured, industrial-strength framework for web applications. It's very fast to learn and get started, and will provide a life-time of programming pleasure.

Ruby on Rails is only a few years old but has taken the web development world by storm. Everywhere you look there are new, advanced web applications coming online, built in only a few months, with small, agile teams, using Ruby on Rails. It sure beats failing to go live, after several years of development with huge teams using older technologies.

The really good news is that getting started and productive with Ruby on Rails is incredibly fast. In 30 minutes you'll be off and running, and you'll never slow down!

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Dr Nic is known for his exciting blend of software development, entertaining education, thorough training and his popular blog ( http://drnicwilliams.com).

He picked up Ruby on Rails in 2005, he has released successful websites, such as MyConfPlan, and a growing collection of open source projects that are used throughout the Ruby on Rails community - New Gem Generator, Composite Primary Keys, and the Magic Model Generator, plus more.

For the last two years, Dr Nic has lived and worked in India, Sweden and Netherlands; has attended RailsConf 2006 and 2007 in the USA, and met and learned from many of the legends of the Ruby on Rails community. He is ranked in the top 10 ( http://www.workingwithrails.com/browse/popular/people) of all Ruby/Rails developers for his continuous contributions mashed with good humour.

Recently he was asked to speak at RailsConf in Berlin, and gave a sold-out one-day workshop at Web Directions in Sydney for people starting with Rails.