Hands-on Rapid Rails Development with Hobo

The intent of this session is to give attendees a very practical hands-on introduction to developing a Rails application using the extensions in the Hobo plugin. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of the plugin and will be in a strong position to evaluate whether Hobo would be useful in their own projects.

The session will begin with an overview of the goal: a medium sized web app – interface first. As the tutorial proceeds we will implement a simple first-cut of the app, and then incrementally refine. How far will the attendees get with this app in three hours? That will be for them to discover, but if current experience with Hobo is anything to go by the results should be impressive!

The app under development will be designed to expose the attendees to all of the main aspects of Hobo, including:

• Model-layer extensions
• The model-centric permission system
• Migration generator — writes complete migrations for you
• Automatic routing
• Automatic, customizable RESTful controllers
• Hobo’s generic application — Naked Objects meets the web
• The DRYML markup language — view layer re-use on steroids
• Hobo Rapid tag library
• Hobo’s easier-than-not-to AJAX mechanism
• Switchable themes