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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Greetings Austin Railers

Another hot Austin summer is in full swing and we've got another smokin' meeting for you to boot! Except this time, you are the star. Yes folks, it's true...it's time for another round of lightning talks where you tell us what's up. In addition, we've got some boys from College Station (that hotbed of crackling technological firepower) coming down to give us a preview of their Lone Star talk on Merb, the most popular of the Rails alternative Ruby web frameworks.

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