Improve Your Rails Development Workflow

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1. Improve Your Rails
   Development Workflow
   Ruby Peru meeting - March 26, 2011
   Florent Guilleux
   

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2. Disclaimer: mastering your
   editor and shell are probably
   the most important things to
   do to improve your workflow
   But let's concentrate on tools for
   today...
   

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3. 1. Speed-up application initial
   setup with a Rails application
   template
   

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4. 2. Automate the launch of
   commands needed for your
   application with Terminitor
   

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5. config file example for a Rails project
   window do
   before do run "cd ~/projects/demo" end
   run "git st"
   run "mate ."
   tab :name => "server" do run "rails server" end
   tab :name => "console" do run "rails console" end
   tab :name => "spork" do run "bundle exec spork" end
   tab :name => "autotest" do run "bundle exec autotest"
   end
   end
   

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6. 3. Make your application 10
   times faster in development
   mode with
   RailsDevelopmentBoost
   

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7. 4. Automatically refresh your
   browser when a file has
   changed with AutoRefresh
   

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8. 5. Improve your rails console
   with Hirb and Wirble
   

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9. >> Post.all
   Post Load (0.7ms) SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts"
   +-----+-------------------------+----------+
   | id | created_at | title |
   +-----+-------------------------+----------+
   | 907 | 2009-03-06 21:10:41 UTC | hello |
   | 906 | 2009-03-06 08:47:04 UTC | world |
   +-----+-------------------------+----------+
   2 rows in set
   

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10. 6. Easily know the
    attributes/columns of your
    models with Annotate
    

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11. class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :product
    # ...
    end
    # == Schema Info
    #
    # Table name: line_items
    #
    # id :integer(11) not null, primary key
    # quantity :integer(11) not null
    # product_id :integer(11) not null
    # unit_price :float
    # order_id :integer(11)
    example of model annotation
    

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12. 7. Generate diagrams of a
    Rails application with Rails
    ERD or RailRoady
    

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14. 8. Open gem code quickly
    with qwandry
    

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