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Test-Driven Rails Development Lunch Session Tomorrow

Elite OpenRain ninja Remi Taylor will be presenting his approach to test-driven Rails development tomorrow afternoon at 1:30pm at OpenRain HQ. That’s Wednesday, October 8th for approximately 1 hour. All are welcome. No reservations required. Forecast: 99 degrees with a 90% chance of awesome.
You can grab the latest presentation file here. Remi’s synopsis…

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ABLEconf 2008 Slides

Thanks for being a great audience! Here are the slides from both hours…
Getting Started With Ruby on Rails: [Keynote] [PDF]
Ruby on Rails Deployment & Hosting: [Keynote] [PDF]

Ruby/Rails Training Now 40% Cheaper!

New on-site Ruby/Rails training rates are now available, here, and they’re better than ever! These rate reductions mean OpenRain training is..

Cheaper than sending a team to RailsConf.
In the comfort of your own office.
Supplemented by addressing the specific needs of your company.
Able to flow into a development agreement if you would benefit from additional assistance.

We realize [...]

Getting Started With Rails: 2008.09.27

Getting Started With Rails evening tutorial workshop with Preston Lee.
Joe Developer at OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, September 27th, 2008. 6pm.
Light dinner provided.
This event is for developers new to or otherwise interested in web development using Ruby on Rails. Laptops encouraged. WiFi provided. See you there!

Sister Partnership With Railsware

OpenRain is a U.S. company with U.S. staff. The value of direct, barrier-free, native-language communication outweighs any perceived cost savings of outsourcing our niche, not to mention it’s a lot more fun to work in the same office and time zone. For a typical 3-month project with 2 developers, it’s not uncommon in an outsourced [...]

Setup Ruby and Rails on OSX

Welcome to the first of many posts in the OpenRain Tips and Notes series. We’re going to use this space to share some of the tips, tricks, howto guides, and notes, that we use internally to keep us productive and make us happier programmers.
Today, we’re going to learn how to get your brand new shiny [...]

OpenRain F/OSS Rails Plugin Repository

We do Rails, and we’ve been keeping a secret from you.
You can grab some of the tools we maintain for our own production Rails apps for free. Now, we’re not going to give you all our marbles, but there’s nothing quite sweeter than commercially-funded Open Source software, especially when it’s written in Ruby, and by [...]