The following online workshop focuses on users with a Mac or Linux/Unix operating system. We hope to support Windows users in the next iteration!!

SCI&U is an online health coaching and self-management program that is powered, in large part, through the magic of Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/).

In this workshop you'll learn how to install Ruby on Rails on your computer at home and how to use it to create a very simple database of health resources like that on the SCI&U website. You'll leave familiar with the Model, View, Controller (MVC) framework for web programming and SCI&U's Open Source codebase (https://github.com/SCIandU/sci-and-u-rails).

The workshop will take place on two days:

October 22, between noon and 2 EST

October 23, from noon and 4 pm EST

Day one of the workshop will involve meeting 1-on-1 (or in pairs) with an instructor to install tools required for Ruby programming (e.g. Ruby, Rails, SQLite and Sublime Text). Day two will see us all meet in a group to get a very basic website up off the ground and running on your home computer.