Agile Web Development with Rails 8 Book Club

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Agile Web Development with Rails 8 Book Club
Cover of the book Agile Web Development with Rails 8

During the POODR Readalong Travis Spangle (LinkedIn) and Jim Remsik (LinkedIn) had a chance to catch-up. Travis has experience running book clubs and was looking forward to reading Agile Web Development with Rails 8 from Pragmatic Programmers. He was wondering if there were lessons learned from running the online book club for Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby.

Travis has experience running book clubs through work and was excited about the opportunity to join up with other folks trying to get better at their craft. Travis and Jim decided to team up for this effort to bring another book club to the community. Presenting ...

Agile Web Development with Rails 8 Book Club

Hosts: Travis Spangle & Jim Remsik

When: Two months from late April to late June
Where: Weekly Zoom calls hosted Wednesday evenings and chat via Ruby Central Community Slack
Who: You! And anyone else who is Ruby on Rails-curious.

Date Topic
April 23rd Introduction and Overview
April 30th Getting Started
May 7th Building the Application; overview, creating, validation, and unit testing
May 14th Catalog Display, Cart Creation, Smarter Cart
May 21st Hotwiring the store front, Check Out!, Sending Emails & Processing payment
May 28th Logging In ,Internalization, Receive Emails & Respond to Text
June 4th Deployment & Production, Depot Retrospective, Rails in Depth
June 11th Active Record, Action Dispatch & Action Controller, Action View
June 18th Migrations, Customizing & Extending Rails
June 25th Retrospective & Celebration