SD Ruby Meetup - Give Yourself Some Backbone

Lightning talk I gave in 2011 at the SD Ruby Meetup. Was my first ever technical presentation to a public industry audience.

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1. GIVE YOURSELF SOME BACKBONE Ryan Weald isurfsoftware.com Monday, February 28, 2011
2. WHAT IS BACKBONE.JS? •Lightweight MVC framework •Model - View - Controller •Way to organize your Javascript & Collections •Slightly different MVC from Rails Monday, February 28, 2011
3. CHANGING THE FLOW Rails Model Rails Controller Rails View Monday, February 28, 2011
4. CHANGING THE FLOW Rails Model Rails Controller Backbone Model Backbone Controller Backbone View Monday, February 28, 2011
5. WHY WOULD I WANT THAT •Easier to test your Javascript •Makes your Rails app a simple REST API •Simplify your Ajax •Offload computation to the client Monday, February 28, 2011
6. CODE SAMPLE Monday, February 28, 2011
7. RESOURCES http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ http://www.jamesyu.org/2011/01/27/ cloudedit-a-backbone-js-tutorial-by-example/ Monday, February 28, 2011
8. DONE! Monday, February 28, 2011
9. DONE! Ryan Weald isurfsoftware.com github.com/rweald twitter.com/ucsd_surfNerd Monday, February 28, 2011