Tyson Agenda

1. Introduction

• agenda (plus times)
• Ruby 2.6.x installed
• GitHub account

2. Warm-Up

• 2.1 Ruby and Rails questions [15 min]
  • see list below for recommended order

3. Free Books project

• 3.1 Introduction [5 min]

  • basic Rails project (see README)
  • user can already sign up
  • do not worry about styles and layout
  • do not worry about testing
  • what we will be looking at/for
    • overall approach
    • simplicity and correctness
    • have the requirements been met?

• 3.2 Stories [45 min]

  • story 1: browse books [15 min]
  • story 2: create new books [15 min]
  • story 3: edit books [15 min]

• 3.3 Discussion [20 min]

  • click around
  • review code
  • review git history
  • how would you test this?
  • which assumptions/compromises/shortcuts did you take?
  • would you take another approach without time limit?
  • would you change anything in regard to performance?
  • would you change anything in regard to security?
  • how much effort would it be to provide the functionality as an API?
  • other optimisations you can think of?

Recommended order of Ruby and Rails questions:

• ruby/and.rb
• ruby/assignment.rb
• ruby/case_when.rb
• ruby/regex.rb
• ruby/rescue.rb
• ruby/any.rb
• ruby/class_sum.rb
• ruby/private_class_method.rb
• ruby/meta_programming.rb
• ruby/benchmark_string_concat.rb
• rails/newsletter_rake_issues.rb