This post was originally written by Justin James for Tech Republic.

Takeaway: There are plenty of compelling reasons to check out Ruby on Rails — like the development model, the job market, and the abundance of good IDEs.

It’s been an exciting few months at HackerYou. We’re more than halfway through our first (sold out!) 72-hour course (an Introduction to Front-End Web Development), we’ve organized a few dozen workshops (teaching everything…

This post was contributed by Alan Judson — he’s one of the 30 students that will be joining us at our Intro to Rails course in January! Learn more about that course here, and learn more about Alan below!

What a HackerYou class looks like:

Photo credit: Jon Lim

This post was originally published by Roy Bahat on his blog, Also.

Like farming was in the 17th century, factory work during the industrial revolution, construction during the Great Depression, and manufacturing after World War II…