Meeting February 7, 2012 Ruby Tuesdays Study Group at Blazing Cloud

Ruby Tuesdays Study Group at Blazing Cloud

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Skills/Description

1. Teaching

     I'm comfortable leading a full-day workshop.
     I'm familiar enough with Ruby and Rails to teach the basics.
   

2. TAing

     I'm willing to assist workshop teachers, and I'm comfortable taking participants aside and working with them one-on-one.
     I'm familiar enough with Ruby and Rails to teach the basics.
   

3. Coordinating

     I can be counted on to organize one of our monthly workshops.
     Taking care of the operations and logistics and delegating where necessary is no problem for me.
   

4. Childcaring

     I take care of children professionally, have children of my own, or have lots of experience with the children of family and friends.
     I'm happy to care for the children of Workshop participants during events.   
   

5. Writing

     I'm handy with words. The spelling error in this sentance makes me cringe.
     I can write or edit copy, help maintain the Workshop wiki, or write for the Workshop blog.
   

6. Hacking

     I know HTML/JavaScript/CSS, Rails, or both.
     I want to build software that will help the Workshops continue to run and scale smoothly. 
   

7. Designing

     I have a sharp eye for design and think about user experience all the time.
     I want to design the websites that keep the Workshop running smoothly. 
   

8. Evangelizing

     I'm a blogger or I have contacts in the PR/marketing world.
     I can help get the word out when there's news about the Workshop.
   

9. Mentoring

     I have experience with several workshops in different roles.
     I'm willing to spend phone, email, or face time with founding Railsbridge Outreach Workshops organizers in other cities to help them get their operations off the ground.
   

10. Mac OS X

      I'm comfortable with Mac OS X.
    

11. Windows

      I'm comfortable with Windows operation system.
    

12. Linux/Ubuntu

      I'm comfortable with Linux/Ubuntu.
    

13. Other

      I am good at ...  
    

Steps to implement

1. Add link "Add your skills" to views/events/index.html.erb

2. Decide how you will update skills by adding them to user - add action(s) to the appropriate controller to add skills to the current_user and to update user in the database - create migration to add skills to Users table

3. Create a form with skills

4. Configure routes