The South East Michigan Ruby User Group is hosting a free two day Ruby on Rails training course on Saturday March 11 and Saturday, March 25. No previous Ruby experience is necessary; however, some previous development experience is recommended. Starting from nothing we will cover the basics of the Ruby language and then create a web calendaring application over the course of two days. In the process there will be plenty of examples and hands-on assistance to get you started with Rails. It is BYOL (bring your own laptop). If you do not have a laptop, you can still sign up, but please let us know so we can try to make arrangements to accomodate you. Enrollment is limited, so if you''re interested, please sign up using the information below as soon as possible. Feel free to make additional inquiries on our mailing list rubymi@lists.rubymi.org. You will have to join the mailing before you can post to it, which you can do at: http://rubymi.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List Schedule: * Saturday, March 11, 10:30am to 11:30am, Ruby/Rails Install-Fest * Saturday, March 11, 12:00n to 4:00pm, Class Session 1 * Saturday, March 25, 10:30am to 11:30am, Q & A "catch up" opportunity * Saturday, March 25, 12:00n to 4:00pm, Class Session 2 Topics Covered: * An introduction to the Ruby language * The Rails framework - Model, Controller, Views - Migrations - AJAX - Web services Are you interested? If so, enroll in the class (using "rubymi-222" as the enrollment key) at: http://compoundthinking.com/classes/course/view.php?id=4 The facilities for the class are kindly offered by Humantech. Their address and a map can be found at: http://www.humantech.com/Level3/about_ht/a2_office_map.htm