About Me

• Joaquin Rivera Padron @joahking
• thinking about changing that nick :-D
• doing RoR since 2006
• working for XING
• ifeelmaps = where ecologic, spiritual consumers and businesses meet
• https://github.com/joahking

Ruby On Rails

• Build for Productivity
• Best practices
• MVC = Model/View/Controller
• Convention over Configuration
• Strong OSS Momentum

Ruby gems

• In Ruby the Gems are libraries
• Ruby gems https://rubygems.org/
• Rails is a gem, each component is a gem, and for each there's always an alternative
• Bundler http://bundler.io/
• Gemfile

Rails generators FTW

• rails g scaffold
• many generators available: rails g
• gems can add their own

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html

Pro tip

to see Best Practice code

• use generators
• check rails code itself

https://github.com/rails/rails

View helpers FTW

• writing HTML is tedious
• form control naming and models' attributes

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html

CSS to start with

• HTML, CSS, and JS framework for responsive, mobile webs
• e.g. Twitter Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/
• find free or cheap templates
• dump it in your repo

Asset pipeline

• concatenate assets, which can reduce the number of requests that a browser performs
• fingerprint into filenames for cache busting
• asset minification or compression. Configurable.
• Precompilation: e.g. Sass for CSS, CoffeeScript for JS, and ERB for both by default.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html