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Partners Research Tech Lunch

Partners Research Tech Lunch. Oct 27, 2011. Ultra-quick Ruby Overview. Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp Object-oriented Dynamically-typed “Duck Typing” - capability, not type Message passing vs function calls Open Classes Concise, clear, expressive. Ultra-quick Rails Overview. MVC ActiveRecord

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Partners Research Tech Lunch

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  1. Partners Research Tech Lunch Oct 27, 2011

  2. Ultra-quick Ruby Overview • Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp • Object-oriented • Dynamically-typed • “Duck Typing” - capability, not type • Message passing vs function calls • Open Classes • Concise, clear, expressive

  3. Ultra-quick Rails Overview • MVC • ActiveRecord • Migrations • Templates / Controllers • Routing • Rack • Convention over Configuration

  4. Why Ruby (and why not) • Good • Meta-programming • Lambdas / closures; DSLs • Gems • “Many come to Ruby because of Rails, but they stay for Ruby” • Bad • CPU-bound • Concurrency etc

  5. Why Rails • Mature, stable • Velocity: prototyping, fast iteration • Building, consuming APIs • Deployment ease • Free! • Bad • Legacy DBs • Stored Procedures; Oracle

  6. Other Ruby Implementations • JRuby • Rubinius • IronRuby, MacRuby

  7. Our Toolkit • Where’s the IDE? • Jquery • MySQL / SQLite • Redis • Pivotal Tracker • VMs – Fedora, MySQL 5.1

  8. Our Toolkit Cont’d • Git • Fast, decentralized VCS • Cheap easy branching • Smart merge tools • Github • Repo hosting, Collaboration • Code review • Dotfiles • Examples

  9. Our Toolkit, Cont’d • RVM • Per-project rubies • Gemsets • Capistrano • Scriptable deployment • Multi-target, multi-environment • Rake

  10. Testing • Cultural, pervasive • TDD – object behavior • BDD – system behavior • RSpec • Capybara • Javascript problems (Selenium, headless browser) • Development vs Design • CI

  11. Projects • clinicaltrials.dfhcc.harvard.edu • Protocol activation

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