For February, we are going to address one of the core components of Rails from the very beginning: ActiveRecord. We will have an introduction to the topic as well as a deep dive on more complex data modeling issues. The organizer for this meeting is Mason Hale.

Beginner Talk

Demystifying ActiveRecord — Anthony Lewis

For many new Rails developers, their first exposure to Rails (and often Ruby) is through ActiveRecord and “magical” incantations like ‘hasmany’ or ‘belongsto’. In this talk, we’ll pull back the curtain on ActiveRecord and see what’s going on under the hood. We won’t assume any prior knowledge of Rails or ActiveRecord, but may skim over explaining methods and parameters which are already well documented elsewhere. Instead, we’ll focus on the “big picture”, identifying the main concepts and components and explaining how they fit together.

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This month at Austin on Rails we’re going to “break it down now” for Rails beginners with a nice variety of talks from various community members. We’ll cover directory structure, MVC, routes, migrations, helpers, testing, and the new Rails 3.1 asset pipeline. We’ll also have Anthony Lewis (Rails developer and instructor) step in and educate us about building secure Rails applications.

Rails Beginner Lightning Talks! - Various Folks

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