FOSCON 2008: Cooking with Ruby Notes

Random

• Arduino is awesome. RAD is Ruby for it. (atduskgreg)
• Make an ordered hash in Ruby
• Selenium is frickin cool - you can even DRAG ELEMENTS AROUND!
• Calagator
• AutomateIt

Turning a Rails Project into a business

• Do things on Facebook with Ruby as a consultant
• iPhone development
• Don’t write any code first
  • Design first
  • Customer connection
  • Articulate the problem you’re solving, and figure out who has that problem
  • Define what will drive the target to spend money
• Determine where your client spend your time
  • Lawyers - Golf Course
• Know your competition
• Why are you different
• Make a story (car salesman)
• Build software
• Level the playingfield - compete with the enterprise