The preparation seminars take place at:

• Tuesday, 5th August 2008, 11:00am - 16:00pm and
• Thursday, 31st July 2008, 11:00am - 16:00pm

in Room N127 ('Neubau', 1st floor, Römerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn)

Both days are compulsory!

Notes

• Everybody should investigate in these links and resources
• We have Ruby and Ruby on Rails books in our office A109, Römerstraße 164, 53117 Bonn which you can borrow for your preparation
• Each topic has to be prepared by two participants
• Each talk lasts one hour (30 minutes per participant)
• If you have questions don't hesitate and ask back!
• Communicate to each other about
  • Who will pair with whom
  • Which pair will assign to which topic
• A nice overview over Agile / Extreme Programming concepts and techniques can be found here
• All talks and slides must be held/written in English since this is the only language all participants speak!

(Yuri & Monica)

• Introduction in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• First steps for creating/setting up a new Rails project (Live demo of tiny example project setup)
• Generators: Scaffolding, Migrations, …

Resources: see here, here, here, and here

Slides PDF

(Saskia & Alan)

• Test First! (Motivation, Examples)
• Unit Tests
• Functional Tests
• Integration Tests
• Fixtures
• Mocking with Mocha (http://mocha.rubyforge.org/)

Screencasts: see here
Docu: see here, here
Wiki: here

Slides PDF

(Torsten & Matthias)

• Continuous Integration (CruiseControl)
• Code Coverage (rcov) (http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?rcov)
• GUI Tests (Selenium) (http://selenium.openqa.org/)

Screencasts: see here
Docu: see here, here
Wiki: here

(Antonio & Jibraan)

• Design Patterns (in Ruby)
  • Motivation
  • Short example
• Refactoring (see e.g. M. Fowler)
  • Motivation
  • Examples
• Code quality/metrics (http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/)
  • Motivation
  • Examples

Screencasts: see here
Wiki: see here and here

PDF

(Mohamed & Christian)

• What is MVC? Explained in the context of Rails (M=ActiveRecord, V=ActionView, C=ActionController)
• Entity and database management: CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• Routing (routes.rb file) - this is a very important concept of Rails

Screencasts: here, here, here, and here

Routing is also very good explained in the Rails books.

Slides PDF

(Sebastian & Michael)

• Layout

• Partials
• Forms
• Helper methods
• AJAX
  • Prototype
  • Script.aculo.us

Screencasts: see here, here and here

Slides PDF