Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It let you write beautiful code by favouring convention over configuration. Rails is a full-stack framework, meaning that it gives the Web developer the full ability to gather information from the web server, talking to or querying the database, and template rendering out of the box. As a result, Rails features a routing system that is independent of the Web server.

Basecamp, Twitter, git-hub and Groupon are some of the killer web applications done with Ruby on Rails.

On the 24th of August 2012, Patrick Turley and Craig Wattrus from ThoughtWorks in South Africa will run a day-long a comprehensive introduction to Ruby on Rails at the CcHub.

The aim of the training is to enable serious Nigerian developers get the hang of the framework/language and to build their first Ruby on Rails web application.

Date: 24th August, 2012
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: CcHub, 6th Floor, 294 Herbert Macaulay Road, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos

Please come with your laptops and a mind eager to learn.

Attendance is strictly based on registration. To register, click here

About Thoughtworks
ThoughtWorks is a software company. We’re also an amazing collection of humans, hired for our passion, integrity and special powers. The company was founded as a social experiment – what happens when you hire really smart, passionate people and set them loose on really tough problems? 19 years on, this collection of people has helped shape the IT industry. The problem we set ourselves now is to use software to improve humanity – becoming a role model for 21st century socially responsible companies.

ThoughtWorks Africa is our latest dream. We have done some work in Sub-Saharan Africa for DataWinners and OpenMRS as part of our Social Impact Program, but our idea is to build a business providing technology consulting services to the local market, based out of Johannesburg.  We welcome a Pan-African spirit and amazing human beings to help build our presence while expanding our consciousness.