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.

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