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Want to learn more about Rails Girls events?
Are you a coach or looking to organize a workshop? Have a look at the Guides about Rails Girls.
These are the main Rails Girls workshop guides. Start here and follow the guides in order.
Start with the Rails Girls guides here!
Learn which tools we'll be using during the workshop and where to find them.
To build apps and other things with Ruby on Rails, we need to setup some software and a developer environment for your computer (macOS, Windows, Linux).
Guide to building your first app with Ruby on Rails.
Improve the design of your newly built app with HTML and CSS.
Add more pages to your app with your own content.
Customize the homepage of your app.
Make your ideas more visual with picture uploads.
Push your code to GitHub to give people access to it.
Instructions to get your app running on the internet. We have a lot of platforms to choose from:
Fly.io | DigitalOcean | Heroku | OpenShift | Engine Yard | anynines
Let's add some design to make it look like a professional website.
Add comments to your your app by allowing people to leave message.
Instructions on resizing your images using CarrierWave.
Make sure your app works like expected by writing tests that can run automatically.
Learn more topics with these Rails Girls guides. These are not in any particular order. Choose a guide that sounds interesting and try it out!
Learn how the Ruby language looks and works. Read this if you don't know how Ruby works yet.
How to quickly add a login and signup with Devise
How to give your users profile photos
Guide to building your first app using the Sinatra framework
Guide to building your first app using Ruby on Rails
Guide to how you can add an admin back-end to manage your app with Active Admin
Guide of Instructions for a game development with Ruby.
Get a deeper understanding of what's going on under the hood
Practice your Ruby skills while learning TDD
Simplify your RSpec tests with Shoulda matchers.
Focus on your Ruby skills - level 2!
- CD with Travis (and anynines)
- CD with Codeship (and Heroku)
- Prepare your app for deployment with Phusion Passenger
Allow authenticated users (using devise) to describe touristic places, comment and rate them from their autism-friendliness. To support autistic adults during their travelling.
A guide to keep you going with learning how to program.
Even if you can't find help locally, someone can still help you over the Internet.
This guide has been put together to help you get started organizing your first Rails Girls event.
Answers to all your questions about being a Rails Girls coach - in one place.
Guide of background information about the Rails application.
We are accepting guides to extend the application to our GitHub repository.