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Play by Play: Ruby App Development with John Barnette

Watch John Barnette try to build a simple group chat application - and amazingly, complete a prototype and deploy it!

Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Ruby App Development with John Barnette
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What you'll learn

You may not know it, but you've probably used software written by John Barnette. He's a committer to RubyGems. His initial attempt at fixing the test fixture problem shipped with Rails 2 over three years ago. In this course, John tries to build a simple group chat application. And amazingly, he actually completes a prototype and deploys it!

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Geoffrey Grosenbach - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Ruby App Development with John Barnette
Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell.

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