---
title: Training Transmogrification
teaser: Updates to our training offering.
tags: news,web,upcase
author: Matt Mongeau
published_on: 2010-09-30
---

thoughtbot held its first training over 2 years ago at the Lone Star Ruby
conference in Austin, TX where participants worked on the [Umbrella Today]
application and learned about thoughtbot's best practices for Rails
development.Using that material, we created our training sessions where hundreds
of developers from around the world have gotten a chance to come to our office
and learn about how we develop on a day to day basis.

As we were redesigning the thoughtbot training website to match our current
site, we realized that our training courses were more like workshops.Our courses
have always involved the development of some application and the experience has
largely been hands-on.In order to reflect this we decided to rename thoughtbot
training to [thoughtbot workshops]:

![thoughtbot workshops](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/workshops.png)

Our next workshop will be [Test-Driven Rails] on October 12th and 13th. The
Test-Driven Rails course is a brand new course written from scratch for Rails 3
that will teach the fundamentals of test driven development. We are reviewing
all of our previous courses and updating them for Rails 3. Stayed tuned for
scheduled dates.

[thoughtbot workshops]: https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/join
  "thoughtbot workshops"
[Test-Driven Rails]: https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/test-driven-rails
  "Test-Driven Rails"
[Umbrella Today]: http://umbrellatoday.com/ "Umbrella Today"