RUBY ON RAILS:
Opinionated Development
JASON DEW
Catamorphic Labs, LLC
jason@catamorphiclabs.com

Rails
what?
why?
how?

Ruby
what?
why?
how?

Convention over
Configuration
convention
configuration
consistency
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familiar
efficiency

Don’t Repeat Yourself
DRY or...
see also: KISS and YAGNI

Automated Testing
TDD
red, green, refactor
autotest rcov
cruisecontrol.rb

Source Control

Agile Development
Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

Open-Source Software
free

Questions?
References:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/overview/tenets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_Configuration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_repeat_yourself
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32090737@N04/3621069164/
http://github.com/
http://git-scm.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
http://opensource.org/