The Iron Yard Academy, the largest code school in the country, is launching a new, three-month intensive Ruby on Rails engineering class in Greenville beginning Jan. 5.
Ruby on Rails, an open-source Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, is one of the most popular server-side frameworks in the world, the Iron Yard said. At the end of the class, participants “will know how to build fast, production-quality full-stack apps.”
“Rails is an in-demand technology and a great framework for learning Web development, and we’ve had tremendous success with Rails in our other locations,” said Roy Schmidt, Greenville campus director. “Giving Greenville-area students another option lets us grow here without sacrificing the teacher-student ratio.”
The class will teach everything from foundational concepts to complex frameworks. Some topics like JSON AJAX requests will take weeks to cover, while others, such as the use of Active Helper, will be taught in just a few lectures, Schmidt said.
Classes are designed so the curriculum can be adapted by each instructor as tools and languages evolve, but students from each class will graduate with the same core skill set, he said. The class schedule is set up like a typical five-day workweek, with a lecture in the morning and lab time in the afternoon. Friday is an open lab day where students can work with the instructor to catch up on projects or get a head start on the weekend’s homework.
The Greenville course will be taught by James Dabbs, a trained mathematician who, while working on his Ph.D., decided software development was a better choice. He most recently worked as a senior engineer at Emcien in Atlanta and has previously taught the Ruby on Rails classes in Atlanta for the Iron Yard.
Cost for the class is $12,000 and includes 12 weeks of intensive code education, mentorship and career support.
The Iron Yard was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Greenville. It currently has 10 campuses across the U.S., and beginning Jan. 2015, expects to have more than 400 students enrolled in courses ranging from mobile and front-end engineering, Web design, Python and now Rails engineering.
For more information, visit theironyard.com/academy/rails-engineering.
