Flexible Rails

I'm busy putting the finishing touches on the material for Flexible Rails: The Workshop on Sunday; it looks like it's going to be a fun workshop.

Regarding what you should bring to the workshop on Sunday, here's the brief checklist:

• a laptop (Windows or Mac)
• your AC adapter: I often forget mine, so this is here even though it's obvious

What should be on your laptop?

• Flex Builder 3 Beta 3 (download from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/)
• Ruby 1.8.5 or 1.8.6
• Rails 2.0.2
• MySQL 5 (download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads)

The workshop will run from 9 to 5, but I'll be setting up the room and taking any last-minute walk-in registrations from 8-9 (as well as serving coffee), so if you have any problems installing anything I will be able to help you from 8-9.

If you want a sanity check to confirm that you have Flex, Rails and MySQL installed correctly, you can do the following:

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]

C:\>rails -v
Rails 2.0.2

C:\>mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.24, for Win32 (ia32)

If you already know the basics and want to confirm they all play nicely together, you can do the following:

1. Download and unzip the Flexible Rails iteration 10 code from http://www.flexiblerails.com/files/FlexibleRailsIteration10.zip.
2. From the FlexibleRailsIteration10\pomodo directory, run:
   • newdb.bat (./newdb.sh on OS X)
   • ruby script/server
3. Import the iteration10 project into Flex Builder 3 (with File -> Import) and do a clean build (Project -> Clean...)
4. Go to http://localhost:3000/Pomodo.html and login as ludwig (with a password of foooo).

==> You should see four tasks, with the "Finish eighth symphony" task checked.

If none of the above made any sense at all, don't worry: the workshop will fix that!

Note: If you are coming to the workshop and you haven't bought and read Flexible Rails, do not do so before Sunday. The workshop will be a faster way of getting started than reading Flexible Rails. Don't worry, we won't be using the Flexible Rails example in the workshop--I'm just attaching the iteration 10 code from it since running it is a nice way of checking that everything works...

I look forward to meeting everyone on Sunday.