# Crash Course on Speed for Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444 "2005-11-20T19:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/1 "2005-11-20T19:34:44Z")
Well, we hold this once-a-month workshop at work to share knowledge about various tools and methods we use and we usually have three hours for a subject. Since me and a couple of my colleagues have used Ruby extensively to the benefit of our projects there is a growing interest about the language ( 😉 nothing like good, clean, working code that helps make the deadlines when you want to attract attention ). Now, I know that you can’t teach someone Ruby in three hours, but the audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good theoretical and practical backgrounds, so we only need to provide a highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it’s course (anyone ever thought that Ruby pulls programmers minds like a black hole pulls matter? The closer you get the harder it gets to get away. And you need to be very far away to have any hope of escaping 🙂 ) So I’ll stop rumbling and get to the question: Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how we could put together a three hour Ruby workshop? I can’t help but think that someone from those .rb teams out there has already thought something up. And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, although I haven’t yet found one that can serve as a good introductory workshop example. Cheers, V.- – [http://www.braveworld.net/riva](http://www.braveworld.net/riva) ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/2 "2005-11-20T20:35:22Z")
damphyr wrote: > Anyone has some introductory hands-on material or any pointers on how we > could put together a three hour Ruby workshop? There are some good presentations etc here: > **[Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](https://ruby-doc.org/whyruby/)** > > Fast, searchable Ruby documentation for core and standard libraries. Plus, links to tutorials, guides, books, and related sites. ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/3 "2005-11-20T21:11:22Z")
Damphyr wrote: > highspeed hands-on tour of Ruby and let nature take it’s course (anyone > workshop example. > Cheers, > V.- [http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html](http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html) Though you better ask for permission first 🙂 Cheers, Daniel ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/4 "2005-11-20T21:27:32Z")
Daniel S. wrote: > > audience is high calibre, experienced professionals with very good > > And before someone points me to the Quizes, yes I thought about them, > > although I haven’t yet found one that can serve as a good introductory > > workshop example. > > Cheers, > > V.- > > [http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html](http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html) > > Though you better ask for permission first 🙂 > Niaghhhhh, I get the urge to strangle DHH sometimes :). > As much as I like Rails I haven’t written a single line of Ruby code > using it (and I scored a decent 47 with the ruby score script 😉 ) and I > don’t feel good about the latest trend of sticking with Rails examples > whenever introducing Ruby. > Notice: the above presentation might just as well be a presentation > about Rails (it looks like that anyway). It’s just that lately I find > myself having to explain that Ruby is a _lot_ more than Rails and hence > the urge to strangle DHH :). That said, if I decided using the slides I’d take the first 16 and use Rake or Rant for a DSL example since that applies more to my line of work :). ## Cheers, V.- [http://www.braveworld.net/riva](http://www.braveworld.net/riva) ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/5 "2005-11-21T12:05:49Z")
> > [http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html](http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html) I just come over this thread an had a look at the slides. Could someboy tell me which software was used to create these slides? regards, Achim ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/6 "2005-11-21T16:36:10Z")
I suppose it could have been build using S5 ([S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System](http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/)). ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/7 "2005-11-21T16:32:08Z")
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, John W. wrote: > On 11/21/05, Achim D. (SyynX Solutions GmbH) [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > [http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html](http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html) > > > > I just come over this thread an had a look at the slides. Could someboy > > tell me which software was used to create these slides? > > +1 > > Wasn’t any identifier in the code, so perhaps it’s a custom job – but > those really are nice looking slides. perhaps magickpoint or ooffice. > “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” > > - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland -a ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/8 "2005-11-21T18:09:09Z")
- Koen Van der Auwera [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [051121 16:35]: > I suppose it could have been build using S5 > ([S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System](http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/)). Great! That’s the link of the day! I was looking for this kind of presentation tool for quite some time. Thanks! Cheers, Steph. ---
**Author:** ![damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@damphyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damphyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/crash-course-on-speed-for-ruby/48444/9 "2005-11-21T16:20:03Z")
On 11/21/05, Achim D. (SyynX Solutions GmbH) [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > [http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html](http://johnwlong.com/slides/gettothepoint/index.html) > > I just come over this thread an had a look at the slides. Could someboy > tell me which software was used to create these slides? +1 Wasn’t any identifier in the code, so perhaps it’s a custom job – but those really are nice looking slides. – Regards, John W. > **[John Wilger](http://johnwilger.com)** > > The personal website of John Wilger; Dad, Cyclist, Software Developer