Just a very short entry, because that's all I have time for. The class is composed of about 50 attendees, from all sorts of development backgrounds. In terms of content, Dave and Mike first did a very short Rails history, then spent the morning on a Ruby review. Even though I've been coding in Ruby (inconsistently) for a few years, I picked up a couple of new things. The afternoon was spent getting up to speed on Rails basics, digging shallowly into ActiveRecord and static and dynamic scaffolding. Probably the most interesting and useful topic was that of migrations, which allow you to "version" changes to the database schema (and data!) as you progress through a project.

In all, the day moved a bit slow for me, but I'm sure there were folks for whom it was just right. You can't please everybody.

After class, a few of us headed into downtown Denver for dinner at P.F. Chang's, and had a good time geeking out over beers, lettuce-wraps, and other sodium-filled goods.