LA Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup

Continuous Testing and Security

This month's meetup will be held at StackCommerce.

21 Market St, Venice, CA 90291

7:00 – 7:15 Open
7:15 – 7:30 Introductions
7:30 – 9:00 Presentations
9:00 – 10:00 Open / Networking

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StackCommerce is on a mission to revolutionize publisher monetization strategies through the integration of native content and branded commerce. The company’s network reach is currently over 500mm monthly visitors across more than 750+ publisher partners including AOL, Gawker Media, IDG, Digg, The Next Web, and others. The company is headquartered in Venice, CA and backed by Draper Associates, 500 Startups, Amplify, Wavemaker Partners, and several top angel investors.

Driving:
For parking, there is a good amount of street parking in the neighborhood. For reference, I have provided a map of the area.

Metro:
The Metro line drops you off in Downtown Santa Monica. We are a quick Uber/Lyft ride or 7 min bike ride away from the stop. I believe one way on the metro is $1.75 and takes roughly 45 min from DTLA.

Biking:
We are about a 7 min bike from the Santa Monica Metro Station. Our bike rack is right outside our office, in a contained courtyard.

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PRESENTATIONS
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Presentation #1: React on Rails: Why, What, and How?

Presenter: Justin Gordon
Bio: Aloha! Inspired by the Ruby on Rails Community, Justin began blogging on RailsOnMaui (http://www.railsonmaui.com/) and working on open source (https://github.com/justin808). A philosophy of sharing, plus React/Webpack/Rails integration (http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/10/03/integrating-webpack-and-the-es6-transpiler-into-an-existing-rails-project/), developed into ShakaCode (http://www.shakacode.com/about)! A family, coding, and surfing in Maui create a healthy life balance.

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Are you considering integrating React into the front-end stack for your Rails application? Would you like to pass values from your controller right into a React component, possibly with server rendering? You have two main choices in the Rails community. You can use popular react-rails gem which leverages the asset-pipeline. Or you can use the react_on_rails gem which uses webpack and standard JavaScript tooling for the integration. In this talk, we’ll cover the motivations and techniques behind react_on_rails, and why embracing the JavaScript open source standards is the best bet for your Rails project. Have a listen before the talk on Ruby on Rouges: 284 RR React on Rails with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise (https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/284-rr-react-on-rails-with-justin-gordon-and-rob-wise)

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Presentation #2: Creating a Collaborative and Organized Workflow

Presenter: Daniel Archer
Bio: Aloha! Inspired by the Ruby on Rails Community, Justin began b

Best practices to create a workflow optimized for collaboration, from CLI/Atom to GitHub, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and how to keep everything organized for product development.

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Presentation #3: Continuous Testing and Security