GemifyJS

Nikhil Thomas and Stephen Chen's talk at NYC On Rails (12/5/2012). GemifyJS is an application that turns Javascript files into Rails gems.

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1. GemifyJS Sharing Javascript just got easier Monday, December 3, 12
2. The Team Stephen Chen github.com/stephenchen13 @twenty2twoss Nikhil Thomas github.com/nt591 @nikhilthomas90 Monday, December 3, 12
3. Sharing Javascript is really hard Monday, December 3, 12
4. Sharing Ruby is really easy Monday, December 3, 12
5. Monday, December 3, 12
6. Q. How can I share Javascript? Monday, December 3, 12
7. Q. How can I share Javascript? A: Treat it like Ruby! Monday, December 3, 12
8. Let’s build a new gem Monday, December 3, 12
9. It’s like magic! Monday, December 3, 12
10. Nope. Monday, December 3, 12
11. It’s all about patterns Monday, December 3, 12
12. Gems have blueprints Monday, December 3, 12
13. Gems have gemspecs Monday, December 3, 12
14. Monday, December 3, 12
15. Then what? Monday, December 3, 12
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19. Monday, December 3, 12
20. What’s in the lib folder? Monday, December 3, 12
21. Monday, December 3, 12
22. What’s that other stuff? Monday, December 3, 12
23. Monday, December 3, 12
24. Where does my Javascript go? Monday, December 3, 12
25. With all your assets Monday, December 3, 12
26. We call this the “asset pipeline” Monday, December 3, 12
27. Thanks DHH Monday, December 3, 12
28. Monday, December 3, 12
29. Rails engines! Monday, December 3, 12
30. Gem it up! Monday, December 3, 12
31. We don’t want to write this over and over Monday, December 3, 12
32. Let’s go one level higher. Monday, December 3, 12
33. What if our code wrote code? Monday, December 3, 12
34. Metaprogramming Monday, December 3, 12
35. They’re called generators Monday, December 3, 12
36. You already do this! Monday, December 3, 12
37. Monday, December 3, 12
38. Can we make our own generator? Monday, December 3, 12
39. Hell yes. Monday, December 3, 12
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41. Monday, December 3, 12
42. Wait...what? Monday, December 3, 12
43. Where are the templates? Monday, December 3, 12
44. Monday, December 3, 12
45. Let’s explore the code and see our templates Monday, December 3, 12
46. But how did we share it? Monday, December 3, 12
47. You’ll need to log into GitHub and RubyGems Monday, December 3, 12
48. Monday, December 3, 12
49. We hid our confidential information. Monday, December 3, 12
50. That sucked. Monday, December 3, 12
51. We encourage you to try it Monday, December 3, 12
52. www.gemifyjs.com Monday, December 3, 12
53. Thank you. Monday, December 3, 12