Ruby on Rails Oceania

When?

Monday, May 19, 2008 at 6:00 PM

Where?

Toowong Library, Toowong Village Shopping Centre, Level 3, 9 Sherwood Rd

What?

Done Rails, Now What?

So now that you've got Rails under your belt, you're fishing around for ways to do it better. You're thinking "What am I going to do next?" Well, here's what:

Dr Nic will show us Hobo, a rapid application framework on top of Rails, with the motto "write less code". Consider these features:

• Popular plugin Sexy Migrations, which is now in Rails 2? Originally from Hobo.
• Popular plugin "make_resourceful" - Original from Hobo.
• Automatic migrations - place your schema information in your model.
• Interesting alternate template language: DRYML.

We can then contrast this with Haml and Sass, introduced to us by Alan Harper.

• Haml is an alternative template language for Rails, that cuts down on the verbosity of HTML, and outputs human readable HTML.
• Its partner in crime, Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets), has a similar philosophy to Haml, but applied to CSS rather than HTML. It brings a more powerful, feature rich templating language to the design world.

Afterwards, we'll head down the road to Jackpot for the usual feast of Asian delicacies and Oriental lagers.