Lessons From The Real World

Dirk Elmendorff, co-founder of Rackspace

twitter - rails app on rackspace the steps...

build team

Somebody who knows rails (an "anchor") is easier.

Need to understand where on rails learning curve team members are.

Buy the book!

Meta-programming can wait

Focus on conventions

brings as example rackspace app for kathrina relief

build app

get it to play with others

successful apps change over time

use tests to get back into the app ("interactive documentation")

TDD ... haven't gotten there yet. I

n the meantime, put stubs into test suites.

Have to support IE !

Selenium lets you use Ajax etc. in browser...

....at this point I tuned out....