getify

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

PatrickTulskie

class New
  def new
    self.class
  end

  def to_s
    'new'
  end
end

zacksheppard

Notes showing different ways to us AJAX forms in Rails. We will use a Todo list as an example domain for the examples.

Lowest level of abstraction

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views/lists/index.erb.html This will create the list input form (Note: This should also work in Sinatra)

<% form_for List.new do |f| %>

irmiller22

Form_for

• Most magical form helper in rails
• form_for is a ruby method into which a ruby object is passed
• form_for yields a form builder object (typically f)
• methods to create form controls are called on f, the form builder element
• when the object is passed as a form_for parameter, it creates corresponding inputs with each of the attributes
  • if i had form_for(@cat), then the form field params would look like cat[name], cat[color], etc
• in keeping with Rails convention regarding RESTful routes, there should be a resource declared for each model object (eg, resources :cats)

johan

Step 1

Does your osx terminal speak java 7? Start Terminal.app and try: java -version:

> java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)