What I Learned at Open Hack Naperville
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The document summarizes an open hack night event where developers with different backgrounds came together to learn about and build a Ruby on Rails application. It provides an overview of the Ruby on Rails framework, including its MVC structure, ActiveRecord pattern, testing with Cucumber, and use of YAML for views. It also discusses hosting the application on Heroku and using Git for version control.
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What I Learned at Open Hack Naperville
- 1. Kevin P. Davis, Ph. D 4/23/13
- 2. http://openhack.github.io/ Simple purpose: “Code together, on anything” A little food A little introduction Then code for a couple hours @OpenHackNAP, but there are many others: it’s a movement
- 3. Downtown Naperville, 33 ½ Jefferson TwoCanoes Software HashRocket Very typical looking startup Macs everywhere Beanbag chairs everywhere I mean, really hipster. Might as well have been Austin. Or Portland. Or Boulder. ◦ And very welcoming
- 4. Couple .NET guys Apple guys Java guy Mainframe guy Bunch of Rails/Ruby guys So we didn’t have that much in common. Except the guy bit.
- 5. Instead of co-hacking, the night turned into a presentation (by the will of the participants and their curiosity), with lots of Q&A Starting with http://jonallured.com/2012/10/17/setting- up-a-new-rails-app.html, we built, tested, and deployed a Rails application to production (on the for reals interwebs)
- 6. Functional programming paradigm If you’re getting started, use RVM ◦ Package management ◦ Keeps your versions clean and you smiling Gems are the spiritual precursors to NuGet Packages Rake is “ruby make” – think NAnt
- 7. MVC Framework Wildly popular “Optimized for Programmer Happiness” “Convention over Configuration”
- 8. ActiveRecord – Architectural Pattern ◦ Relational database ◦ Instance of active record tied to row in a database ◦ Ruby has an ActiveRecord library Postgres – Open source database ◦ Actively maintained and under development ◦ RDBMS ◦ Since 1986 (!)
- 9. BDD framework Provides automated scenario testing ◦ Given [and] ◦ When ◦ Then Compare to NBehave
- 10. YAML Ain’t Markup Language (Views) Requires more research. I’m going to admit this is a mystery to me. Views written in YAML rendered into HTML
- 11. DVCS All the cool kids are doing it Job interview question : “What’s your GitHub handle?” Can be local or use GitHub
- 12. Application hosting First dyno is free (disk + cpu + network) Solid integration with git Easy to provision and publish
- 13. Apparently the market is sick (the good kind) Enormous supply/demand gap for Rails When asked why, the answer was “Community” Salaries look competitive with .NET (glassdoor.com) Dev bootcamps and other Ruby outreach
- 14. Beware. The Rails Community is a Cult.
- 15. http://rubyonrails.org/ http://cukes.info/ http://www.yaml.org/ https://www.heroku.com/ - free dyno https://github.com/ And for the truly demented (er… dedicated) http://devbootcamp.com/