Reuse your government's code

Presentation I gave at the London Ruby User Group about reusing things from GOV.UK's codebase.

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1. Tijmen Brommet Lead Developer, GOV.UK
 Government Digital Service
 @tijmenbr
2. Steal software from government!
3. GDS
4. GDS What if it worked for backend code too?
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13. GDS Slides will be online at www.tijmen.cc/lrug
14. GDS 3 real world apps 3 cool patterns 3 things to help big projects 3 clever team tools
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16. A really big app
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18. GDS 8 years of code Rails 3 to Rails 5 lots of domain modelling running single app in 2 modes
19. A data warehouse
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21. GDS collects data from our system & analytics uses a star schema database
22. A new app
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27. Readable feature specs
28. GDS {screenie FutureLearn blopo}
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32. Spam honeypot
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37. Archiving big tables
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45. GDS 3 real world apps 3 cool patterns 3 things to help big projects 3 clever team tools
46. Configure lots of GitHub repos
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48. GDS ✅ only allow merge commits ✅ protect master branch ✅ enforce CI checks ✅ add webhooks
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51. Share frontend code
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53. GDS app/views/components/_back_link.html.erb app/assets/stylesheets/components/_back-link.scss app/assets/javascripts/components/_back-link.js app/views/components/docs/back_link.yml
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55. GDS example
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58. Visual regression testing
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62. Seal of approval
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66. GitHub Trello Poster
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69. Browser extension
70. GDS https://www.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.staging.publishing.service.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.integration.publishing.service.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car http://www.dev.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.gov.uk/api/content/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?filter_link=/learn-to-drive-a-car https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/https://www.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car etc etc
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73. Want more?
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75. GDS Want to code in the open too? We're hiring! https://jobs.jobvite.com/gds
76. GDS Slides & links at www.tijmen.cc/lrug Thank you @tijmenbr