All I can say is Wow!
Rails Day, the Aftermath
(If you don’t know what rails day is, look here: Rails Day
Blog. It is a 24 hour contest to implement a web
application in Rails.)
Obviously I can say more than wow. I don’t have a lot of time, so
just a few quick points here.
- Don’t try to setup your brand new Mac-mini for Rails Day if you’ve
never used it for developement and are not that familiar with Macs
in the first place. Not that Macs are a poor development machine,
far from it! It’s just a poor decision to “try out a Mac” the
morning of Rails Day. I wasted way too much time trying to get it
configured. I finally switched back to my trusty laptop.
- Favorite quote of the day: I heard this from the other Rails Day
team in the room with us:
Person 1: I think we should use transactional testing.
Person 2: I agree. Just a second … I want to watch you set
it up. (He then turns back to his machine to finish a commit. He
returns in a few seconds). Ok, I’m ready.
Person 1: Oh, I’m done already.
Person 2: Damn! That’s what I hate about Rails. You blink
and you miss something.
- Ha! We way overplanned our application. John started at midnight
and implemented the DB schema we talked though in our planning
meeting. When we started connecting things up, we discovered that
is was way more complicated than what we could accomplish in one
day, so we ripped out the extra stuff and concentrated on the
features that we were working on at the moment. Eventually we might
need the complexity, but it was only getting on our way. YAGNI!
- Thanks to Fusion Alliance for procuring the Room. It was perfect
for our needs (well, except for a distinct lack of power outlets
... we had to bring in a few extra power strips).
- Thanks to Lisa Kaminski (SARK) for the fruit basket and the Pizza.
- Although we didn’t get everything done, we did get to put in some
AJAX like features. That’s the first time I have played with AJAX
and Rails does a really nice job of making it easy.
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Helpers | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Controllers | 148 | 126 | 4 | 21 | 5 | 4 |
| APIs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Components | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Functionals | 189 | 148 | 6 | 26 | 4 | 3 |
| Models | 170 | 133 | 4 | 26 | 6 | 3 |
| Units | 175 | 142 | 3 | 28 | 9 | 3 |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Total | 691 | 557 | 17 | 101 | 5 | 3 |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
Code LOC: 267 Test LOC: 290 Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.1
- Note to self: Next year have practice run to smooth out the kinks.
- Teams in Cincinati:
- Team 1 (JEWEL … personal food log)
- Jim Weirich
- John Wilger
- Rob Biedenharn
- Team 2 (Photo album/organizer)
- Scott Barron
- Doug Alcorn
- Mark Windholtz
- Mark brought in a couple bottles of Ruby Sake, which we used to
celebrate the end of the run.
Had a great time … I suspect the other teams did too.