Rails Girls Guides is a static site generator and tutorial collection that provides instructional materials for teaching web development to women through Rails Girls workshops.
The project addresses the need for accessible, reusable workshop materials by hosting a collection of guides built with Jekyll. The guides cover foundational concepts for building web applications, and the repository serves as both the published site and the source material that workshop organizers can adapt for their own events. The guides include special formatting features such as coach highlight tags to mark explanatory notes for instructors and syntax highlighting powered by Pygments for code examples.
The tool suits anyone organizing a Rails Girls workshop or similar introductory programming event who wants to use or customize existing curriculum materials. Workshop organizers can clone the repository, run Jekyll locally to preview changes, and contribute new guides or improvements back to the project. The materials are designed to be flexible enough for use in various settings, from formal workshops to informal gatherings.
The project maintains an active contribution process with clear guidelines for adding new guides. Development activity shows consistent engagement with the codebase, including attention to styling consistency, code highlighting setup, and troubleshooting documentation for common Jekyll issues. The project welcomes contributions from coaches and community members and provides a structured path for submitting new educational content.
