Our (very strongly) suggested minimum donation is £75. Remember it's a donation, though, and not a ticket when you come to the Gift Aid section :-)
This years main charity event is a full-day Ruby tutorial with Chad Fowler and Keavy McMinn. It's aimed at developers with some experience in Ruby and/or Rails developers who want to improve their understanding of the essence of Ruby. Frameworks like Rails, Rake, Capistrano, Sinatra, and others that have made Ruby popular and vibrant are all built on the same essential language features. Being well versed in these features is the fastest past to mastery of not only the language but of many of its most popular libraries.
The day will be structured into steps of of lecture, sample code and writing your own code exercises, with our support.
We will cover four key areas of the Ruby language:
* Blocks and bindings
* The Ruby object model
* Meta-programming
* Hooks, callbacks, and reflection
In this one day tutorial, you will:
* Gain confidence working with the Ruby language
* Learn how to make your existing code cleaner and more mountable
* Learn idioms which will help you understand how popular libraries and frameworks are constructed
* Learn how to leverage the Ruby language for use in your daily work (including Rails development)
* Become a better developer, with a deeper understanding of why and how your tools work
In addition to the main tutorial, we're running a whole host of smaller BOFs and lightning sessions in the foyer. We're calling it a RubyFest.
Each year, we request a minimum 75UKP donation to CHAS. That donation gets you attendance at Chad and Keavys talk, as well as the RubyFest in the foyer.
Please make your donation before the day arrives so we have an accurate list of who’s going to what.
In 2008/09/10, the Scottish Ruby Conference ran bootcamp tutorials in advance of our Ruby conference. We paid for the venue, the speakers donated their time for free, and all the money paid for attendance went directly to charity. In 2010, we also had a 5K run to raise more money.
Together, we've raised more than FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDSfor the Children's Hospice Association, which provides respite care for terminally ill children who will not live to adulthood, and support for their families.
