Railsconf 2013 Recap for KC Ruby

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1. My visit to Railsconf 2013 Aaron Sumner @ruralocity
2. “F*** it.”
3. Now with a sprinkle of JavaScript! •DHH keynote •Yehuda Katz keynote •Rails vs the Client Side (Noel Rappin)
4. My other takeaway.
6. •Insist on simplicity •Use good judgement •Test everything once •Test the interface •Trust collaborators •Practice regularly —and you will love your tests.
7. versus:
9. The controversy: •self-documenting code is a pipe dream •unit tests are bad tests •TDD creates bad tests
10. Solution: •Document all public methods •Document as you go •Keep it short •Don’t document implementation •Use integration tests, not unit tests •Test models, services, presenters
11. Aren’t we all just talking about objects in Rails?
12. Building Extractable Libraries in Rails Patrick Robertson
13. Maintainable Templates •Decorator pattern •Presentation models •View objects Brendan Loudermilk
14. (Probably others.)
15. Also check out: •Aaron Patterson’s keynote •An Intervention for ActiveRecord (Ernie Miller) •Pry—the Good Parts! (Conrad Irwin) •How to Talk to Developers (Ben Orenstein)
16. References •http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/c/2246896 •https://speakerdeck.com/skmetz/magic-tricks- of-testing-railsconf •http://thomasmeeks.com/controversy •https://speakerdeck.com/patricksroberts/ building-extractable-libraries-in-rail-railsconf •https://github.com/bloudermilk/ maintainable_templates
17. LFK.rb •3rd Thursdays •Starting next month •Carpool to KC Ruby •www.meetup.com/Lawrence-Coders
18. Thanks!