A Rubyist Startup Toolbox

Break down of skillz that help a Rubyist rock out a great product for a startup.

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1. A RUBYIST STARTUP TOOLBOX
2. SARA GIBBONS Engineer @ Neo Innovation @saragibby saragibby@gmail.com
3. company size CORPORATE start ups
4. DETROIT TECH GROWTH
5. 2011 Fastest Growing Metro Areas For Technology Jobs DICE
6. 2013 The Fastest-Growing Cities For Tech Jobs FORTUNE MAGAZINE • St. Louis • Charolette • Austin • Phoenix • DETROIT Detroit had about 800 IT job postings on Dice on any given day. Now, it's about 1,100.
7. 2014 Metro Detroit’s Tech Job Growth Was Nearly 2x The National Average IT WORLD • Metro Detroit’s technology sector added more than 30,000 jobs, while Silicon Valley’s technology sector lost 10,000 • Tech industry employment in metro Detroit is up 15 percent from the previous year’s study. In comparison, Silicon Valley experienced a 4 percent decline. • Nearly 10 percent of total employment in the metro Detroit area is tech-related.
8. 2015 America’s Advanced Industries BROOKINGS Detroit - engineering services accounts for 21 percent of its advanced industry workforce. Computer systems design, management consulting, R&D services, and data processing, meanwhile, employ another one-fourth of Detroit’s advanced industry workforce.
9. 2015 What’s Driving the Next Detroit RE/CODE • In 2014, some 248 new technology companies were started in Michigan, and private investment in tech startups totaled $770 million. • In 2014, for the first time ever, there was more venture capital activity in Detroit than Ann Arbor. • Michigan state economic development arm dedicating $25 million annually to technology accelerators, incubators, venture funding and grants. • Detroit is listed as one of “The 15 Hottest American Cities For 2015”
10. 2015 You Might Be Living In The Next Silicon Valley HUFFINGTON POST • Miami • Boston • DETROIT • New Orleans • Chattanooga • Cincinnati • Houston • Washington DC
12. TOP 10 SKILLZ RUBYISTS NEED IN THEIR STARTUP TOOLBOX 7
13. EXAMPLE
15. RULES…. OBJECTS….
16. DEMO
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18. • Gitflow Workflow… branches (feature, release, bug, hotfix) • Have a go to Git tool… - GitHub - gitx - Source Tree - tig • ABC…. Always Be Committing • Is there a pull request for that? … WIP, ready for review
19. https://github.com/saragibby/rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock
20. PROTECT THE SECRET SAUCE #2
21. PROTECT THE SAUCE • Objects - Make sure you write in objects, not scripts - Don’t back yourself into a corner… create a core • Test, Test, Test - RSpec - test-unit - minitest - Bacon
22. TESTS IN ACTION
23. KNOW RAILS #3
24. RAILS • Goodness baked in… - ActiveRecord, an object-relational mapping system for database access - ActiveResource, provides web services - ActionPack, framework for handling and responding to web requests - ActiveSupport, component responsible for providing Ruby language extensions, utilities, and other transversal stuff - ActionMailer, allows you to send emails from your application using mailer classes and views • RESTful API • BOOM! Web application
25. https://github.com/saragibby/rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock-rails
26. BRING ON THE RAILS
27. #4 TO THE cloud
28. HOSTING • Know how to deploy to common hosted platforms • Heroku • Engine Yard • AWS • Digital Ocean
29. TESTING/DEPLOYMENT • Utilize servies to automate testing, and deployments • Codeship • Jenkins • Travis CI • Snap CI
30. SPOCK, TO THE CLOUD http://rock-to-spock.herokuapp.com/
31. #5 FULL STACK
32. What does it mean to be Full Stack? FRONT END BACK END • HTML • JavaScript • CSS • Analytics • Accessibility • SQL/Database • Job queues • Object Oriented • Testing • Hosting/Deployment
33. rails new
34. JAVASCRIPT • jQuery - Know what it is good for, and when to step away - Be aware of the load vs. use when you include jQuery • Know basics of most JavaScript frameworks, and have your go to… - Angular - Ember - React - Backbone • CoffeeScript
35. CSS • … learn it, love it, use it • Create easily reusable styles • Be aware of the load you are bringing in when you include the third party CSS files • Have a go to tool to create a mock up • Be prepared to easily pull style info from mock ups
36. #6 KNOW WHEN TO CALL FOR BACKUP
37. WHEN TO CALL BACKUP • Gems - Know when to utilize gems - Be sure you are using something solid and supported • Mobile - Have a solid RESTful API - Namespace API
38. rake routes
39. #7
41. STARTUP - CHANGE AHEAD • Know the core business • Expect changes… lots of changes • Speak up for large technical tasks, think effort vs. business value • Don’t over engineer - When working on beta, don’t add code/gems for v2
42. TOP 10 SKILLZ RUBYISTS NEED IN THEIR STARTUP TOOLBOX 7
43. 1 Gotta get Git 2 Protect the secret sauce 3 Know Rails 4 To the cloud 5 Full stack 6 Know when to call for backup 7 Change ahead
44. Spread the Ruby love
45. QUESTIONS @saragibby saragibby@gmail.com