Building Ruby Applications

Building Ruby Applications—A Walkthrough

GR DevDay 2011
November 5, 2011

Mike Swieton

The development world changes so fast it can be very difficult to keep up. Even on a platform you are familiar with, new tools pop up so frequently that it is easy to miss what could become a valuable asset.

In this talk I’ll walk you through a command-line Ruby application (Not a Ruby on Rails web application) and look at the tools and techniques that are the current state of the art for Ruby development. We’ll look at:

• Dependency management with Bundler
• Database connectivity and management with ActiveRecord and migrations
• Test framework and mock libraries
• Test data management

This very concrete talk will go over what tools are out there and provide brief examples of their use in a real-world app.

Here is a link to the github repo of the app I demoed. There are no slides for this presentation.