Cool Stuff in Rails 3

Cool Things that have happened in the past 5 years

What’s this about

• 5 years ago used Rails up to version 0.12.1

• Revisiting now with Rails 3

• (http://railstutorial.org)

Heroku

• Deployment used to be really harsh

• Deployment + pain in production killed my rails world

• Heroku is unreal

• gem install heroku

• heroku keys:add

• heroku create

• git push heroku master

• heroku open

nginx + Passenger

• http://nginx.org/

• http://www.modrails.com/

spork

• makes your tests fly - at least run quicker

• uses unix process forking goodness

• doesn’t need to load stuff

• gem install spork + tricks (see rails tutorial).

• http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:spork

Demo

rob@gonzo$ time rspec spec.......................................................................................Finished in 2.46 seconds87 examples, 0 failuresreal0m3.092suser0m0.245ssys 0m0.155srob@gonzo$ time rspec specNo DRb server is running. Running in local process instead ..........................................................................................Finished in 2.12 seconds87 examples, 0 failuresreal0m19.755suser0m5.541ssys 0m1.872s

spork

• Some changes require restart (model changes/routes)

Bundler

• http://gembundler.com/

• Gemfile

• bundle install

Autotest

• Run tests continuously

• watches filesystem for changes

• runs tests when file changes

• autotest + growl on mac is cool

Demo

• http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:autotest

• https://github.com/svoop/autotest-growl

• This room

• web

• tutorials

• podcasts

• blogs

• mailing lists

Community

• very cool

• understands Ruby

• understands rails

• understands Gems

RubyMine

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