Frozenrails Notes

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Some Frozenrails Notes

Jeff Casimir(@j3): The Problem is your Ruby

• do not improve Rails skills, instead:
  • OO
  • Ruby
  • Design
  • ...

Jeff Casimir(@j3): Blow Up Your Views

• Rails Decorator: draper
• improved view system: deliver html template, assets and json data asynchronous and render page on client side
• mustache.js: javascript templating engine

Zach Holman(@holman): How github uses github to build github

• asynchronous work
• no meetings, deadlines, pings
• CAMPFIRE
• simple branching
• trust your developers
• use pull requests to document and explore features
• post screenshots
• use github issues

Ryan Smith(@ryandotsmith): Modern Architecture

• The Vault:
  • 1 Engineerer
• Goals for cloud ready systems
  • Unix: very small apps, that do small things well
  • Dependencies

Joseph Ruscio(@josephruscio): Implementing a RESTful API with Ruby the Right Way

• "The URI should not imply the representation"
• Pagination support for all lists:
  • request: offset, length, orderby, sort
  • response: total, found offset, ???
• Block port 80, use ssl/tls, basic auth
• Versioning: uri, media type,