Building a Simple Blog with Ruby on Rails - Live Coding Presentation

Live demonstration of writing a blog in Ruby on Rails. I gave this presentation to an audience of mostly devs at the January 2017 meeting of the Acadiana Software Group. I mimicked, in small part, DHH's original presentation of RoR, but also showed some of the more then-modern features.

Generally I don't recommend real-time coding at a presentation. To reduce risk, I had established something like 15 checkpoints in the presentation, and set up git so that I could just skip to the next one if anything went sideways. And then the internet died... so there's that. But you must be ready to roll with the punches. :)

topics include: Rails, generators, gems, bootstrap, APIs, JSON, modeling, convention over configuration, and blog posts.

In retrospect, I wish I hadn't used generators so heavily as I think it gave the impression that all we do is use generators... and that isn't part of my normal development cycle.