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Our Day at Rails Girls Next

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Gabriel Gizotti
February 19, 2014

Today we stepped out of our usual workspace, put our emails aside and headed to the first ever Rails Girls Next. Ildiko Balla and I continued our Rails journey and our awesome Developer 22 was there to help out and mentor.

We started the day with our first tutorial on Sinatra to get a better understanding about how the web works. Then on we went to do a test driven development exercise and learned to write tests for our code. Last, but not least we programmed our very own Ruby ATM and discovered more of Ruby’s features and syntax.

What I Loved About Today

  • Meeting so many awesome girls who are also learning Ruby.
  • Pairing on each set of tutorials and helping each other along (it is amazing how much you can achieve when you work together to solve a problem).
  • Doing tutorials that were hands on and really made you think.

Thank you

Thanks to all of the awesome mentors and RubyConf AU for putting this together. We loved everything we learned today and are so happy to be involved with RailsGirls!

Keep Learning

We had some awesome feedback about our Sydney Development Hub today and if you want to keep learning make sure you come along! You can sign up for Development Hub on the meetup page!