Railsify your web development
- 1. Railsify your web development Thomas Lundström, Softhouse @thomaslundstrom Scandinavian Developer Conference, Gothenburg April 4, 2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtl_shag/320960018/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 2. Agenda • About this session • 12 Practices http://www.flickr.com/photos/puntodevista/84796578/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 3. About this session http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 4. About this session • Day job: consultant, .NET/Java • Rails dev at night http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 5. About this session • Ruby on Rails is • Simple • Productive • Easy http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 6. About this session • This started me asking why http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 7. About this session • Answer: part practices, part Ruby • Can we steal the practices? http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 8. About this session • Disclaimer: the practices aren’t invented in Rails, but they are in the culture http://www.flickr.com/photos/78986993@N00/3335393740/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 9. 12 Practices http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapungo/1408329358/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 10. BDD http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcoree/301890340/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 11. BDD • Writing automated acceptance test suites • Focus on users’ needs • Drive the outer layer (UI, Web Services, API) http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcoree/301890340/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 12. BDD • Executable specifications http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcoree/301890340/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 13. BDD • .NET: Specflow/Cucumber • Java: JBehave/Cucumber • Application- and tech-specific driver http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcoree/301890340/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 14. TDD http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroach/2448878900/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 15. TDD • We all know this, right? • However ... how to do it well? http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroach/2448878900/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 16. TDD • “Build Quality In” (Deming) • Hands-on process that helps designing the software http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroach/2448878900/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 17. TDD • TDD is an acquired skill • One or two in the team spearheads the TDD drive http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroach/2448878900/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 18. MVC http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceamoeba/3044883638/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 19. MVC • Splitting logic into (Domain) Model,View, Controller http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceamoeba/3044883638/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 20. MVC • Splitting of different types of logic • Known structure in your web app http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceamoeba/3044883638/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 21. MVC • Disentangle • Refactor • Un-spaghettize http://www.flickr.com/photos/spaceamoeba/3044883638/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 22. Collaborative database development http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/3051540613/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 23. Collaborative database development • Easy setup of a private database • Your structural change is yours only until committed http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/3051540613/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 24. Collaborative database development • Simple database refactorings • “I can’t work since the change made by John put the DB in a strange state” http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/3051540613/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 25. Collaborative database development • Migrations • .NET: Migrator.NET • Java: Flyway, DBDeploy, mybatis (comparison at https://code.google.com/ p/flyway/) http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/3051540613/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 26. App-private database http://www.flickr.com/photos/evert-jan/72568626/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 27. App-private database • Previously: devs in one team share one DB • Here: different products share one DB • Integration #fail http://www.flickr.com/photos/evert-jan/72568626/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 28. App-private database • One more degree of freedom http://www.flickr.com/photos/evert-jan/72568626/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 29. App-private database • Long-term architectural work... http://www.flickr.com/photos/evert-jan/72568626/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 30. RESTful URL:s http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3202247839 måndag den 4 april 2011
- 31. RESTful URL:s • Readable and understandable HTTP-based interface • GET http://app.com/users/thomas/view • PUT http://app.com/users/thomas/ edit.json http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3202247839 måndag den 4 april 2011
- 32. RESTful URL:s • No cognitive mismatch of App vs. URL • Uniform, standard interface • Stateless • Cacheable http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3202247839 måndag den 4 april 2011
- 33. RESTful URL:s • Thoughtful URL design http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3202247839 måndag den 4 april 2011
- 34. Devops http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3123212129/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 35. Devops • Dev team = Ops team • T-shaped people http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3123212129/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 36. Devops • Removal of Ops-Devs wall http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3123212129/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 37. Devops • Organizational change http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/3123212129/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 38. Convention over configuration http://www.flickr.com/photos/aforero/339031109/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 39. Convention over configuration • Minimizing the configuration • Feature level/code level http://www.flickr.com/photos/aforero/339031109/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 40. Convention over configuration • Easier to set up and use the app http://www.flickr.com/photos/aforero/339031109/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 41. Convention over configuration • Remove default configuration • Take decisions! http://www.flickr.com/photos/aforero/339031109/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 42. DRY http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 43. DRY • Don’t Repeat Yourself • Remember: not only for source code! http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 44. DRY - SASS .content-navigation { border-color: #3bbfce; color: #2b9eab; } .border { padding: 8px; margin: 8px; border-color: #3bbfce; } http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 45. DRY - SASS $blue: #3bbfce $margin: 16px .content-navigation border-color: $blue color: darken($blue, 9%) .border padding: $margin / 2 margin: $margin / 2 border-color: $blue http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 46. DRY • Cleaner code http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 47. DRY • Smart selection of tools http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmannix/286817119/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 48. Scaling out http://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldford/3078861139/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 49. Scaling out • Don’t buy bigger servers, buy more! http://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldford/3078861139/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 50. Scaling out • Cheaper scaling http://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldford/3078861139/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 51. Scaling out • Shared-nothing • No Session http://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldford/3078861139/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 52. OSS http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordridden/3107810417/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 53. OSS • Get along with the OSS culture • Use & publish! http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordridden/3107810417/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 54. OSS • Publishing: developer good-will • Using: ready-made functionality http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordridden/3107810417/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 55. OSS • Use 3rd party plugins in infrastructure • Harvest infrastructure • .NET devs: don’t focus on MS tools only http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordridden/3107810417/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 56. Reference management http://www.flickr.com/photos/saragoldsmith/2896007790/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 57. Reference management • Structured dependency management http://www.flickr.com/photos/saragoldsmith/2896007790/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 58. Reference management • Simple and easy dependency mgmt • Finding • Updating • Control of transitive deps http://www.flickr.com/photos/saragoldsmith/2896007790/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 59. Reference management • Java: Maven/Ivy • .NET: NuGet/OpenWrap http://www.flickr.com/photos/saragoldsmith/2896007790/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 60. What not to use? • ActiveRecord pattern • Scaffolds http://www.flickr.com/photos/deapeajay/2143573706/ måndag den 4 april 2011
- 61. Thanks! • Thomas Lundström, Softhouse • thomas.lundstrom@softhouse.se • @thomaslundstrom • http://blog.thomaslundstrom.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtl_shag/320960018/ måndag den 4 april 2011