In the runup and following the Ruby Conf in New Orleans this year the Sarah Allen kindly pulled together the latest and greatest guides and setup tutorials. This led to a few other posts and links, which I’ve now pulled together here so that I have an easy way to find them, and to point others to them too.

railsbridge  — bridging the gap from aspiring developer to contributing community member through mentoring, teaching & writing.

an umbrella group with a number of projects

http://railsbridge.org/

http://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge

Teaching Kids — Sarah Allen, @ultrasaurus

http://teachingkids.railsbridge.org/

http://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge-teachingkids

Workshops — Sarah Mei, @sarahmei

http://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/railsbridge/wiki/Workshops

http://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge-workshops

testfirst.org: ruby, javascript soon to be published — Alex @alexch, liah @liahhansen, Sarah Allen @ultrasaurus

http://testfirst.org/

http://groups.google.com/group/test-first-teaching

devchix (Sarah Allen and others) also have notes for their sessions on setup, etc

http://wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Workshop_Installation_Notes

rubykoans — Jim Weirich @jimweirich

http://rubykoans.com/

Rails Tutorial, Michael Hartl  @railstutorial

book is free on-line, but Michael sells screen-casts — interested in connecting to teachers and others as resellers, will give commissions

http://railstutorial.org/

Ruby Nuby, Malcom Arnold, @rubynuby01

dedicated to teaching the first year of Ruby Programming, Rails Framework, related technologies and entrepreneurial skills to professionals who then learn better by teaching at-risk, disadvantaged youths and helping Nubies become professional Rubyists.

Alberto Morales, Opnet Teachnologies, interested in teaching to kids about programming

http://ruby4kids.com

Saturday kids teaching

Ruby Warrior – great resource for people who have graduated from RubyKoans and test-first and want to hone their Ruby skills

https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior

Jumpstart Labs, Jeff Casmir,  has resources that Jeff uses in classes and releases under Creative Commons

http://jumpstartlab.com/resources

http://jumpstartlab.com/resources/rails-jumpstart/preparation/ page on using sqlite3 with rails