A couple of weeks ago, I hosted a 2.5 hour interactive presentation on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The purpose of the presentation was to show the various ways in which Rails can improve our ability to build complex applications with small agile teams rather than large hierarchical teams.

There are 30 slides in the presentation, which I interspersed with live demonstrations in which we drilled down into some of the technologies and methodologies. The first section of slides is a quick intro to Ruby, which I borrowed heavily/outright copied from the Get to the Point! slides by Ryan Platt and John W. Long.

The slides are available in two flavors:

• Rails Slides (PDF)
• Rails Slides (Keynote 2)