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James Adam, Reevoo
James is a Ruby developer for Reevoo, and has
been developing with Ruby since 2001. He is one of the instigators of
the London Ruby User Group, and has presented to Ruby developers
at conferences in Portland, Vancouver, London, and Santa Clara, where
he unleashed the now-legendary "Acts As Hasselhoff" plugin. He has
remained in hiding at his home in London ever since.
He's been an active member of the Rails community since its inception,
and is the developer behind the Engines plugin. He's also author of
the "Rails Plugins" book.
He pretends not to have a blog at http://interblah.net.
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Presentation: "The Dark Art of Developing Plugin"
Time:
Wednesday 14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Auditorium 1, 1. floor
Abstract: Plugins are more than just shiny nuggets of code which rain down from
the higher echelons of the Rails pantheon; they are loyal and useful
servants that anyone can employ to help reuse code between
applications. Without a little guidance, however, the process of
figuring out just how to tame these beasts can be overwhelming.
This presentation will help give developers the boost that's often
required to get up to speed developing plugins. We'll cover the hooks
that Rails' plugin mechanism makes available, and how to put them to
best use in practice.
Once we've covered the groundwork, we'll start to look at more
advanced programming techniques for sharing code (and other files)
between Rails applications. With a few key programming techniques
under our belt, we can use plugins to alter and enhance the Rails
framework itself, and become masters of Ruby's object model along the
way.
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