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Oh no, the homepage looks terrible on giant screens

Like this one:

No upcoming events - broken link to Bridge Troll

On the page
http://railsbridge.org/learn/events
there are no upcoming events and the link to Bridge Troll is broken.

Delivered fresh by Bridge Troll

<a href="http://www.bridgetroll">Bridge Troll</a>

Dead URL for Railsbridge Green Bay

Under about/chapters, URL for Green Bay Railsbridge is dead. Looks like the domain is expired.

Request of Traditional-Chinese translation

Dear sir,

Few years ago, we have Traditional-Chinese version website of Railsbridge's curriculum and installfest in Taiwan.
That website is http://zh-tw.railsbridge.org/ (the URL still stay on your drop-down menu)

But now the website on heroku just gone for months, and we have no entry level material for local learners any more. We have no idea what happened?!

So is it possible that I and my friends can translate and release all material on the internet again?
For me and my friends, we will use the material at local meetup.
Of course, no charge needed for meetup. Just for Rails and Ruby promotion.

We have a small local group "Rails Taichung" (https://rails-taichung.com/?locale=en), we thought this material translation and website building could be our next project.

Best regards,

Steven Lin
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: [email protected]
Cell: [phone]

Update colors and typeface according to the new branding

The website style should be updated according to the new branding colors and typeface.

I'm going to assign this issue to myself. 👍

Add pull quotes to About page

Find blog posts (general) for pull-quotes / to link to

Further resources should be divided by level

Thinking about turning each of the topics on the learning resources page into a table including the following columns:

• title
• type (book, tutorial, screencast, online course, reference, etc.)
• blurb
• level (beginner, intermediate, advanced, perhaps?)
• cost
• link to the resource

And that the table should be sorted by level by default. We could use data-tables to make the table sortable by any column.

One concern: how terrible this will look on mobile 😦

RailsBridge Philadelphia Chapter

We're excited and pleased to announce that we will be starting a RailsBridge Philadelphia chapter!

Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/RailsBridge-Philadelphia/
Follow @RailsBridgePHL for updates!

Organizers:
Constance Ip: [email protected]
Lindsay Nauman: [email protected]

Need a logo

This is a hell of a project.

Add paypal donation link in cute way

Would like Rails Bridge to Come to Korea

As I write this, I am part of a group in Busan, South Korea called "Busan Coders," (http://busancoders.com/). There are about seven of us in a group and we all come from varied backgrounds and experiences and work history; but more importantly, we are all part of this group because we have an interest in learning to code! We are all basically novices when it comes to learning Ruby (and Rails). Right now, the three of us in the group are trying to learn Ruby through the Hartl tutorials and various other means, but it is still very difficult without the careful eye of a mentor or instructor who has trudged the same path, so to speak. For the moment, we are handling ourselves pretty given the limited experiences we have, but we would love it if someone could bring Ruby Bridges to our group in Busan, South Korea! Ruby is starting to gain some traction and popularity here, and it would be wonderful if you could help us speed up that popularity by running your conference for our group here in Busan (or possibly Seoul, as we have some connections to other aspiring programmers in that city).

Please let me know if there is anyone I can speak to about making this happen, or if there is any way I can open up a dialogue about bringing Rails Bridge to Korea!

I would like to thank you in advance for taking the time consider this post.

Sincerely,

Todd Squitieri

Add favicon

Here's is how it looks currently:

Chrome

Firefox

Assigning this to myself.

git navbar link fails for most pages

For example:

Visit http://docs.railsbridge.org/intro-to-rails/setting_the_default_page

Click 'git' navbar link

You end up 404'd on github at https://github.com/railsbridge/docs/blob/master/sites/intro-to-rails/setting_the_default_page.step

Dropdowns on top nav look and act a little off

The drop down menus from the top nav have a dead spot where moving your mouse too slowly causes you to lose the drop down. They also look kind of bad.

Event cards have clickable-to-nowhere organizer and location

The location should maybe click out to the Google map for the thing; the organizer should not link to anywhere (except maybe the event details page on Bridge Troll?) (Not sure what this means for the colors.)

Railsbridge in Detroit, MI: Need assistance getting started.

Good Day! I would like to have a Railsbridge workshop in Detroit. I have been dipping in and out of coding for some years now. I have finally made a decision to embrace it fully, as well as other technologies. How can I get started in Detroit? I would love to have an introduction workshop before the end of May 2015. I am super excited!

I look forward to a response.

Boxes on http://railsbridge.org/learn overflowing in Chrome

On http://railsbridge.org/learn in latest Chrome (30) on OS X.

Review "advice for teaching people" sections

What are we doing with these "Advice for teaching people" sections -- should they be there at all? Should they have their own section for teaching advice?

All events provided by Bridge Troll API aren't showing up on RailsBridge.org

The RailsBridge site is only showing the upcoming Sunnyvale workshop, and not the NYC workshop.

The JSON API that we're getting the workshops from is provided all of them: http://www.bridgetroll.org/events.json.

Dead External URLs Throughout App

I have detected that the following external links are dead. Most are 404s, with some 500s and 999s.

1
destination: https://www.omniref.com/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources

2
destination: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources

3
destination: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/json,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources

4
destination: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/rake,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources

5
destination: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord/4.1.1/symbols/ActiveRecord::Scoping::Named#annotation=28,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources

6
destination: http://www.sfruby.info/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about

7
destination: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/isa-herico/4a/9/298,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/team

8
destination: http://onales.com/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/sponsors

9
destination: http://rubyfuza.org/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/sponsors

10
destination: http://mkf.org/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/sponsors

11
destination: http://www.neo.com/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/sponsors

12
destination: http://weworkhappy.com/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/sponsors

13
destination: http://www.meetup.com/Portland-RailsBridge/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters

14
destination: http://www.railsbridgeindy.org/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters

15
destination: http://railsbridgedc.com/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters

16
destination: http://www.meetup.com/RailsBridgeMx/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters

17
destination: http://rubysavannah.com/events/1,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

18
destination: http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2013_mar_recap,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

19
destination: http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2013_jan_recap,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

20
destination: http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2012_nov_recap,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

21
destination: http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2012_aug_recap,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

22
destination: http://www.sfruby.info/events/52502132/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

23
destination: http://www.sfruby.info/events/14836042/,
origin: http://railsbridge.org/about/past-events

update team page...

Would be good to update the team page with regard to new board and also seems to be out of date with other regions -- the only I notice is Boston where @mxie is actively organizing.

Switch to RSpec and add some tests

Should have this done today.

Can the subnav be clickable beyond just the words?

I'd love to be able to click within the

of the subnav and not juuuuuust on the text.

Something something dropdown prettifying.

Add "There are no RailsBridge employees" text to team page

Via Mary: 2) On this page, I think you do a great job of mentioning the contributors, but should we emphasize that there are no employees and we are all volunteer run?

Language for this can be found: http://workshops.railsbridge.org/2013/02/there-are-no-railsbridge-employees/

Project: make path from student to contributor clearer

How can we help people contribute more -- move from students to contributor? Make that path more clear.

The "So many other ways to help" section of http://railsbridge.org/help has basically no directions on how to get started.

Project: Chapter pages

Talking with folks about using Bridge Troll, it seems like a common theme that would be missed from using Meetup is having their own place on the web. It'd be great to figure out how to give each chapter their own place at railsbridge.org — we're in the process of adding chapters to Bridge Troll itself, so the dynamic content could still come from there, but individual pages about each chapter would be pretty damn cool.

I'm picturing something like railsbridge.org/colorado, or railsbridge.org/sf, or railsbridge.org/seattle

@careful-with-that-axe, what do you think?

Set a recommended minimum age

Could we work out and publish a recommended minimum age (or statement about why we don't have one) for attending a workshop? 👶

This isn't super pressing, but we sometimes get queries from parents, or, most recently, a scout troop, about what the minimum age is for a workshop or curricula. A statement on the website will save everyone time. 💌

Things to kick off the conversation:

• In SF we used to have a statement asking kids under 12 to attend with a parent or guardian. I don't know if other chapters had different policies.
• There's a minimum age of 13 to create a GitHub account, but not all curricula use version control.

🐘 🔮 🚥

Add a style guide and update the README

Make the site more self documenting...

ps then remove outdated images in reference!

Check approval status for the event I created?

Hi,

I tried to add an event to RailsBridge 6 days ago but it has not been approved yet. Is there a way I can check the status? I'm just concerned that the event data did not get saved to the database since I did not receive a confirmation e-mail, just a confirmation page that the event had been created.

Thanks!
Hanna

docs ask to use ruby version 2.3 but this is not supported by Heroku

The docs from http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/osx_rvm is instructing students to install ruby version 2.3, and then later asks them to deploy to Heroku. Version 2.3 is not supported by Heroku-18, so it generates this following error:

    This version of Ruby is not available on Heroku-18. The minimum supported version
    remote:  !     of Ruby on the Heroku-18 stack can found at:
    remote:  !     
    remote:  !     https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ruby-support#supported-runtimes    

Perhaps a compatible version should be used instead for download.

Add some development debugging gems

Will take care of this today.

Project: make past workshops page amazing

Ideas:

• Show stats pulled from Bridge Troll at the top of the page
• Idea for past workshops viz -- graphical stats section at the bottom of http://oberlin.edu/ home page
• Google map of cities that have had workshops.

Need pictures of RailsBridge-ers for website

Pretty new homepage + useful for making content pages less GIANT WALLS OF TEXT.

Put resources into tables by level

We should use DataTables to make the learning resources sortable.

Use icons for type of resource in learning resources

I am for sure going to do this!!!

Broken Link

A very nice person wrote in to [email protected] to say:

Just wanted to let you know about this link which isn’t working - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book, I found it on this page - http://railsbridge.org/learn/resources. You’re link includes this text - "Ruby on Rails Tutorial", if that helps you find it.

If it's not easy to find what the right link is, it's fine to remove the link entirely. 🐰🎩✨

Add "East Bay, California" to this page: http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters

I attempted to add it myself (forked, cloned, installed ruby/rails/gems), then tried rails server and got errors that sudo gem install rails does not fix. I'm stalled at these errors:

Ignoring executable-hooks-1.3.2 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine executable-hooks --version 1.3.2
Ignoring gem-wrappers-1.2.7 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine gem-wrappers --version 1.2.7
Ignoring nio4r-2.2.0 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine nio4r --version 2.2.0
Ignoring nokogiri-1.8.1 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine nokogiri --version 1.8.1
Ignoring websocket-driver-0.6.5 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine websocket-driver --version 0.6.5
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:

$ sudo gem install rails

You can then rerun your "rails" command.

I run this:sudo gem install rails but it does not resolve the errors above.

I also got this:
Your Ruby version is 2.2.2, but your Gemfile specified 2.3.1
(But I didn't want to manually edit Gemfile, right?)

Would love someone to pair with to refresh my env skills.

Application Error on homepage

On the main website I'm getting a generic Heroku application error page:

Does [email protected] even exist?

We should figure that out, since it's in the footer.

error on http://railsbridge.org

go to http://railsbridge.org/

There has been an internal server error.
This error is being logged and reported...

was first reported here: http://railsbridge.org/learn/events
maybe homepage was cached?

Clarify workshop requirements to be called "RailsBridge"

On this page: http://railsbridge.org/help/organize
Say something like: You are welcome to use our materials to teach anyone anything at any time -- they are all open source. However, to call it "RailsBridge" it must be free and designed to outreach to an underrepresented group. It is fine to put limits on attendees, such as "Men can come as a guest of a woman" or "Only for experienced programmer who happen to be women" or "People of Color and their friends"

Need a new favicon

Maybe after we get a new logo.

Update page titles to reflect current site structure

Linux installation suggestion

Hello, I attended a railsbridge a few weeks ago where I couldn't successfully install Rails on Linux Ubuntu 13.04. It was very frustrating...Thankfully one of the organizers gave me her mac for the day, so that was good.
However, I have since upgraded to 14.04 on Ubuntu's OS. When I tried to install Rails on this updated version the computer requested I insert the .iso CD/DVD into the CD Rom directory so it could download the various myriad of packages Ubuntu did not initially install.
because the update to Trusty Tahr was so recent I did happen to have the installation CD with me. Please update your site to ask people using Linux [the one or two of them] to bring the installation cd with them to the installfest. "Sudo apt-get" doesn't do the job, the packages are all in the install cd/usb stick.
Thank for the great work you guys do, Ariel

All events (not just Bridge Troll) should show up as upcoming events

• Need to add an endpoint to Bridge Troll for it!
• Button should read "RSVP" instead of "RSVP on Bridge Troll" since ... not alway Bridge Troll

Deprecate http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters in favor of Bridge Troll API pulls

We're not really keeping http://railsbridge.org/about/chapters up to date, and Bridge Troll has an actual database of chapters. What if we got rid of the hard-coded chapters page and pulled the chapters from a Bridge Troll API?

We'd need to add the following to chapters:

• Website URL
• Mailing list URL
• Twitter handle

Here's the issue for making the API: railsbridge/bridge_troll#489

CI build fails on master

https://travis-ci.org/railsbridge/railsbridge_dot_org/builds/590859852

error:

/home/travis/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.5.1/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems.rb:289:
in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a) 
with executable bundle (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

Bolded fonts look terrible in Firefix

Adding "bold" to fonts doesn't look too bad in Chrome, but it's pretty terrible in Firefox. (Both on OS X.) Maybe it would help to get some different weights of our fonts and use those instead of the browser's opinion of bold weight?

Oakland Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women

Can't access the link

Missing Code of Conduct

I'm unable to find a page that outlines your org's code of conduct. Is there a direct link on your site?

There are plenty of resources as to why CoC's are useful and necessary as well as open source examples for your organization to implement.

Video tutorials to accompany curriculums

Hi everyone! :)

I've been volunteering at a couple RB events and it's come up in conversation that it might be nice to have video tutorials to accompany the curriculums so that people can follow along as they go (both in the workshops and if they're going through the curriculum on their own). I'd be happy to make them but just wanted to get a thumbs up from someone to confirm that it'd be a good addition to the site. I'm thinking one video for each of the three Rails tutorials since those are the ones I've done in workshops. Thoughts?