This live-coding Rails/Backbone app build took about 90 minutes with step-by-step explanations and Q&A and some discussion. The attendees followed along on their own. It grabs tweets from the Twitter API, and shows them in a page. Everything is done using Backbone; the asset pipeline is used fully. Follow the commits to see what we did:
- Create Rails 3.2 app
- Add Backbone.js and reqs to the asset pipeline
- Build an html page for the app
- Create a Backbone Model and Collection
- Create a view
- Refactor view to use an EJS template
- Add a demonstration event - click on a row
If you were there, show me your repo! Or make a pull request on this repo to improve the example.
Thanks to everyone who attended and especially those who corrected my errors when I got off track! I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me!!
CoffeeScript Implementation: https://github.com/spacemunkay/lets-build-a-backbone-coffeescript-app