Mike will present on the most effective ways to use Ruby in a startup environment. Among other things, he will touch on:

• What is startup Ruby?
  
• How do you iterate quickly?
  
• What I have learned about building Ruby software under startup conditions (Design Patterns)
  
  
  
  • Separate out the things that change from those that stay the same
    
  • Program to an interface, not an implementation
    
  • Prefer composition over inheritance
    
  • Delegate, delegate, delegate
    
  • YAGNI
    
  
  
• Working smartly and avoiding mistakes
  
  
  
  • Move everything out of web requests
    
  • Consider your relationship to your RDBMS
    
  • DB indexes can degrade over time or as more data is added
    
  • alter table not good for big tables
    
  • Make careful use of concurrency
    
  • Organize your code nicely
    
  • Think about your constants
    
  • Avoid boolean flags
    
  • Use Presenters
    
  • Delint your JavaScript
    
  • Make your client smarter
    
  • Be careful with validations and defer them if you can
    
  • SSL is trickier than you think
    
  • "Don't take REST too far" -Michael Koziarski
    
  • Don't test all the time, at the beginning
    
  
  

Presenter: Mike Subelsky