Teaching GitHub for Poets - RailsConf 2015

Discover the benefits of training your entire organization to contribute code. Kickstarter teaches GitHub for Poets, a one-hour class that empowers all staff to make improvements to our site, and fosters a culture of transparency and inclusivity.

Learn about how we’ve made developing with GitHub fun and safe for everyone, and the surprising benefits of having more contributors to our code.

Transcript

1. Teaching GitHub for Poets Aaron Suggs
2. Aaron Suggs ktheory Lead Ops Engineer
3. helps creative projects come to life
4. 1. What is G4P 2. Why do it 3. How to do it Super-quick outline:
5. What is G4P
6. What is GitHub for Poets? 1.Live demo of a copy change 2.Class open to all staff 3.Intro to dev tools + process
7. 1. Live demo a copy change Using GitHub Flow in browser What is GitHub for Poets?
8. 2. Class open to all staff What is GitHub for Poets?
9. 3. Intro to dev tools + process How we test and deploy What is GitHub for Poets?
10. Everyone can commit.
12. Why do G4P
13. • Lightweight process • Avoid building a CMS (Practical reasons)
14. Cultural values
15. Version control is communication
16. Version control is transparency
17. Pull requests are consensus
18. Increase your impact
19. How to do G4P
20. How to do GitHub for Poets? 1.Explain git branches + commits 2.Explain Rails file layout 3.Always Be Learning
21. Always Be Learning
22. (Live demo) github.com/ktheory/rails-demo
23. “They’ll will break the site”
24. “It’s a security liability”
25. Pro Tip™: Safe deploy process • A git branch of your own • Tests & continuous integration • Deployer checks what's getting deployed
26. Pro Tip™: explain what this means
27. Meet the Poets 29 poets have made 1139 commits
29. Coding ~ writing
36. ktheory I have merged the pull request that refactored the class and which you were probably saving for a lightning talk Forgive me the code was SOLID so sweet and so DRY. This is just to git-blame