A 10-Week Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is Coming to the Innovation District

A 10-Week Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is Coming to the Innovation District

Describe the process of buying a piece of IKEA furniture.

That was one of the questions applicants were asked by Launch Academy, a new Boston-based developer bootcamp kicking off this year. Founded by Evan Charles, formerly of Bain Capital, and Boston Ruby Group co-organizer Dan Pickett, Launch Academy is a 10 week, full-time Ruby on Rails bootcamp aiming to turn novices into entry level developers ready to be placed at Boston startups. (More on the founding storyhere.) And thanks to a partnership with a major local incubator, it’ll be opening its doors in Boston, not Cambridge.

Rails 3.2.13.rc1 Has Been Released

Posted by steveklabnik, February 27, 2013 @ 12:00 am

Hey everyone! I am pumped to announce that Rails 3.2.13.rc1 has been released! If no regressions are found I will release 3.2.13 final in two weeks, on March 13, 2013. If you find one, please Open an Issue on GitHub so that I can fix it before the final release.

This is a bugfix release, with 287 commits. There is one big thing that is technically a fix but is sort of a feature: Ruby 2.0 support. Big thanks to Prem Sichanugrist for putting that together! Please give your applications a try on Ruby 2.0 and let me know how that goes.

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