Hi everyone,
It’s the well known web application introduction, this time without the Ruby introduction as the Ruby Monsters already did this! This time it also has a Bentobox exercise, so enjoy!
Hope you enjoy the rest of the workshop and that the slides help you with your learning 
Oh, and a link to the cheat sheet which I mentioned.
Cheers,
Tobi
Hi everyone,
during the last week I spent a large amount of time creating a Cheat Sheet for Rails beginners! So, here it is: http://pragtob.github.io/rails-beginner-cheatsheet/
I originally started creating this cheat sheet for my awesome Rails Girls Berlin project group. But I figured and hoped that a lot more people would be interested in this
So far this cheat sheet covers the following aspects:
So also feel free to check out the repository and especially the open issues – I would love feedback on many of them! And contributions are also very welcome!
Cheers, hope it helps you + keep on learning,
Tobi
So I just gave a lightning talk about shoes. Here are the slides for talk, it was (mostly) a stripped down version of an introduction talk to shoes, which I gave ate Ruby User Group Berlin.
So here are the slides:
Cheers and thanks for wrov_love.rb – it was a cool conference!
Tobi
Hello everyone,
just a quick note but I’m extremely excited to finally announce that I will be teaching a course about the basics of web development at Humboldt University Berlin. The course is meant for bachelor students who don’t study computer science. It’s a total basics course, no prior knowledge required. The course will start with basic HTML and CSS, then we’ll get into some Ruby and then some Ruby on Rails. So in short, it could be perfect to be the start of your journey into Programming. And a useful skill to have, in the spirit of this awesome video.
The course will be every week on Wednesday for 9 weeks (starting in May) for ~5 hours + breaks. The course will be held in German. The course is limited to ~14 students.
Link to the full course description (German)
The course will get its own blog and I will publish all the material I create there – promise. Just no time to set it up just yet.
If you are a student interested in the course, feel free to get in touch with me for questions etc!
In the end, a big thanks to everyone who helped making this happen! Especially Dajana
Cheers,
Tobi
Hi there,
So here are the slides from my talks from the Rails Girls Berlin workshop on Saturday, in their chronological order:
Introduction to web applications (the one with the map)
I love programming
The slides are Creative Commons Attribution license – so feel free to share and modify them but say where you got them from 
And as a little bonus I was allowed to post the beautiful Rails Model View Controller comic drawn by Anja of our Ruby Monsters project group – the comic is Crative Commons as well if I understood her right!
Cheers,
(green) Tobi
Hello everyone,
for my talk on Saturday I prepared cookies. Apparently people really liked them (yay!) and I got quite some requests for the recipe. It’s kind of a family recipe but I guess my grandpa is ok with me sharing it
So I translated the recipe to English – as good as I can – it follows in German afterwards. And at the end of this post there are some photos of me making those cookies this march (back in Sweden) – maybe it helps you.
Spoiler: My baking English isn’t really good.
Basic ingredients
)additional ingredients (for the dark part)
general instructions
Use the basic ingredients to make the dough. Knead the dough thoroughly. Then halve it and add the additional ingredients to one of the halves – knead this one extra thoroughly. Leave the dough to chill for approximately 30 minutes. Roll both doughs out to roughly equal size (and ideally shaped like a rectangle). Then put one dough on top of the other (I usually put the lighter one on top of the dark one) – here you may roll them out a bit more. Then coil them up. Keep rolling and halving until the rolls have the size you like. My grandpa goes for a diameter of 7cm – I take less. When the rolls are done you should leave them to chill (e.g. fridge) for about an hour. Afterwards you should make approximately 1cm thick slices and put them on the baking sheet.
My grandpa gave me these rough guidelines for baking them:
or for air circulation:
The most important rule though is the following: COOKIES SHOULD NOT GET BROWN! which often is quite hard to accomplish. Sticking to the guidelines never worked for me – frequently checking them did.
Pro-tip: I always use at least 4 times the ingredients of this recipe. If you do so it’s much easier to make 2 separate doughs (light and dark one) from the very beginning. And the roll them out and put them on top of each other part also gets so much more fun!
Grundzutaten
Teig schnell und gründlich kneten. Dann halbieren und eine Hälfte mit 40g Kakao verkneten (etwa 50g Butter sollte zusätzlich noch mit geknetet werden). Beide Teige ca. 30 Minuten kalt stellen. Danach beide Teige ausrollen, übereinander legen, leicht andrücken und zusammenrollen. Teig weiterrollen und dabei lang ziehen, sodass eine Rolle von ca. 7 cm Durchmesser entsteht. Die fertigen Rollen ca. 1h im Kühlschrank kühlen und dann in ca. 1 cm dicke Scheiben schneiden und mit entsprechendem Abstand auf ein Blech legen und backen. (PLÄTZCHEN DÜRFEN NICHT BRÄUNEN)
Fürs Backen gibt es diese ungefähren Zeitangaben, bei mir weichen diese aber leider teilst drastisch ab. Deswegen empfehle ich oft nach den Keksen zu gucken.
für Umluft:
Protip: Ich mache meistens die 4-fache Menge an Keksen, da macht es sich dann auch besser wenn man den hellen und den dunklen Teig von Anfang an getrennt macht. Das übereinander legen macht so auch gleich noch ein mal viel mehr Spaß
Here some photos from my kitchen back in Sweden this march of me making those cookies – enjoy. And before you ask what the beer bottle does there – it excels at behaving like a rolling pin. One of the first things my grandpa taught me. Yeah, poor students.
Hi everyone,
here go the slides from my talk this morning at the RailsGirls Berlin December workshop. It’s a basic introduction to web applications and Ruby. Enjoy it and feel free to use it everywhere – if you got questions comment
So enjoy RailsGirls and enjoy coding! Hopefully see you around for the afterparty and feel free to grab me any time if you want to ask me something or just chat!
Cheers,
Tobi
