Guides - Rails Girls

Welcome to Rails Girls Sydney!

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How to Organize a Rails Girls Event

This guide has been put together to help you get started organizing your first Rails Girls event.
1
Guide to Install Rails

To build apps and other things with Ruby on Rails, we need to setup some software and a developer environment for your computer (OS X, Windows, Linux).
2
Build Your First App

Guide to building your first app with Ruby on Rails.

Guides can be found in French, Chinese, German, and Hebrew too.
3
Push Your App to GitHub

Push your code to GitHub to give people access to it.
4
Put Your App Online

Instructions to get your app running on the internet. We have a lot of platforms to choose from:

Heroku | OpenShift | Engine Yard | anynines | prepare your app for deployment with Phusion Passenger
5
Allow Comments on Your App

How to allow comments on your apps.
6
Add design using HTML & CSS

Let’s add some design to make it look like a professional website.
7
Create thumbnails with Carrierwave

Instructions on resizing your images using Carrierwave
8
Add Authentication with Devise

How to quickly add a login and signup with Devise
9
Add Profile Pics with Gravatar

How to give your users profile photos
10
Improve your design with HTML and CSS

How to improve HTML and CSS on your app
11
Continuous Deployment

Test your application with RSpec | Simplifying tests with Shoulda Matchers
CD with Travis (and anynines) | CD with Codeship (and Heroku)
Ease up development with Phusion Passenger
12
Build a voting app in Sinatra

Guide to building your first app using the Sinatra framework
13
Build a diary app in Ruby on Rails

Guide to building your first app using Ruby on Rails
14
Add a back-end to your app (admin pages)

Guide to how you can add an admin back-end to manage your app with Active Admin

Learning more with Rails Girls

Let's have more fun with Rails Girls