Become a Top-Notch Ruby on Rails Developer
With My Video Based Training and Live Webinars
Next Course: Ruby on Rails Basics — Sep 19 - Oct 31, 2011

Whether you're a new developer looking for Ruby on Rails Basics or an experienced developer trying to delve into Advanced Ruby on Rails features, Charles Max Wood can help. I've been working with Ruby on Rails for almost 6 years. I've made several video tutorials on Ruby on Rails features, taught one Beginning Ruby on Rails course, and have mentored dozens of Rails developers throughout my career.

The courses are mostly self guided. They include video demonstrations, explanations, live webinars, and coding exercises. The only part of them that has a set time are the weekly webinars, which will be recorded and made available to course participants.

I've gotten requests for and provide the following courses:

• Ruby on Rails Basics
• Testing Ruby on Rails
• Advanced Ruby on Rails

In addition, I'm putting together a weekly video series for advanced Ruby on Rails developers covering Ruby, Ruby on Rails, related technologies (javascript, databases, tools, etc.), and deep-dives into the Ruby on Rails source code.

Each course includes:

Hours of video content

Each week includes up to 3 hours of video demonstrating the various topics we're covering. In addition, each week's coding exercise will have a video showing you how I completed it.

Weekly Live Webinars

One evening a week (Mountain Time) I'll host a webinar where you can ask questions and engage in a discussion regarding the course topics.

Code Exercises: Working on a Real App

Every course is designed to help you build real applications. You won't be writing dummy code. The exercises are steps in building, testing, or refactoring a real application.

Code Reviews

Completed code exercises will be reviewed and feedback will be given on what you're written. If you're looking for a chance to have a professional review of your code, here's your chance.

Personalized Help

During the course, my highest priority is providing support for my students. I'll be available on Skype, email, and on the course forums.

Ruby on Rails Basics Course

Price: $449

The course will cover:

• Installing Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Setting up your application
• Model View Controller and separation of concerns
• The Ruby on Rails way of doing things
• Data Validation
• Data Associations
• Rendering non-HTML formats like XML and JSON
• Authentication
• Deployment
• Server setup (Phusion Passenger)
• The Rails 3.1 asset pipeline
• Rails console
• Connecting to Databases

The Coding Exercises will lead you into building a blog, a Twitter clone, or a budget program. Videos will only be provided for the blog exercises in this session.

Click here to sign up for the Sep 19 - Oct 29, 2011 Session

Testing Ruby on Rails Course

Price: $299 — Early Bird: $249

The course will cover:

• Acceptance Testing with Cucumber
• RSpec with Rails
• Unit Testing Models
• Testing Rails Controllers
• Testing Views
• Capybara
• Mocking and Stubbing
• Fixtures
• Factories
• Guard
• TDD and BDD

The Coding Exercises will cover an application built for the Ruby on Rails Basics course. If the student hasn't taken Ruby on Rails Basics, I'll provide a copy of my own code.

Click here to sign up for the Nov 7 - Dec 3, 2011 Session

Advanced Ruby on Rails Course

Price: $399 — Early Bird: $349

The course will cover:

• Custom Validators
• Custom Generators
• ActiveModel
• Rake
• Rails Engines
• Extending Rails through Gems
• Rails Plugins
• Form Builders
• Queues and Background Processing

The Coding Exercises will extend an application built for the Ruby on Rails Basics course. If the student hasn't taken Ruby on Rails Basics, I'll provide a copy of my own code.

Click here to sign up for the Jan 2 - Feb 10, 2012 Session

If you have any questions, email me at chuck@teachmetocode.com or send me a tweet at @cmaxw.