Teaching Ruby for fun and profit
summary
Claims that lots of Ruby and Rails courses exist yet hiring shortages persist and that the barrier is setup and context not language theory. Demonstrates concrete failures: gem and rails installer confusion, misleading Stack Overflow answers, permission errors from RVM, and opaque README usage. Names tools and practices that trip newcomers — railsinstaller on Windows, RVM and gemset headaches, git versus GitHub confusion — and emphasizes hands‑on examples from RailsBridge workshops and novice walkthroughs.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:17Teaching for fun and profit
- 0:39About me
- 1:02New York Times article
- 2:32Rubeus
- 3:16The community
- 4:18Rocket equations
- 6:09Delta V
- 8:05Autumn
- 10:28Simplify
- 11:33Why is Ruby so hard
- 13:10Rails Installer
- 14:07Source Control
- 15:07Gem Sets
- 15:29Command Line
- 17:01Testing
- 18:00Ruby Toolbox
- 19:36JavaScript
- 20:13Rails
- 20:31Rails Shell
- 21:13Stack Overflow
- 22:09Its working
- 22:41Life comes in
- 23:10Teaching adults
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