RailsBridge Boston

Awesome recap of the Women's Ruby and Rails Workshop that I worked on:

On Friday and Saturday, August 17-18, a group of volunteers from the Boston Ruby community ran a free two-day introductory Ruby and Rails workshop for women and their friends. (Women were automatically allowed to apply for a spot, while men were allowed to apply if they knew a woman who was going to attend.) Forty-four beginners, 36 of them women, attended the workshop at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A team of 17 experienced Ruby programmers assisted them through software installation, lectures and exercises. Students who had never written a line of code struggled for the first time with the command line, text editors, Git, the HTTP protocol, irb, and Heroku. By 4:30pm on Saturday, the students were tired from the exertion. But every student left the workshop with all the tools and concepts needed to write and deploy Rails applications.

Full article: http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2012_aug_recap