Demystifying Ruby on Rails with Johan Pretorius

Demystifying Ruby on Rails

Rails is opinionated software, do things the right way, and expect a smooth ride.

Let’s discover some of the magic behind Rails internals whilst building an application:

• options when creating our application

• use generators to get a head start

• models: explore active record

• views: render views based on layouts

• controllers: receive routing requests

• extending functionality with gems

• the asset pipeline

Speaker Johan Pretorius

Johan is an experienced software engineer, and has worked in languages such as Ada, C/C++, JavaScript, Pascal, Occam and Ruby (his favorite). He has a keen interest in photography, yearning to print in a B&W darkroom again.