Jumpstart Lab Curriculum

Ruby and Rails Tutorials

Long-Form Tutorials

Follow-along tutorials, generally building a single project through out:

Ruby

  • Ruby in 100 Minutes - Your first exposure to Ruby, focusing on the most important concepts and syntax elements.
  • JSAttend - An introduction to Ruby for new programmers doing "Extract-Translate-Load" operations against a large dataset.
  • JSTwitter - A second introductory Ruby tutorial building a rudimentary Twitter client

Rails

  • JSBlogger - A first Rails project, exploring REST, basic associations, basic templating, etc.
  • JSMerchant - A second level Rails project with more complex relationships, techniques. Needs major revisions

Paths

Paths are groupings of tutorial topics, generally put together for an event or class.

Special Topics

A collection of tutorials on special topics, more specific and generally more advanced than the tutorials.

Go to the Special Topics Index

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