Course
Skills Expanded
Play by Play: Ruby App Development with John Barnette
Watch John Barnette try to build a simple group chat application - and amazingly, complete a prototype and deploy it!
What you'll learn
You may not know it, but you've probably used software written by John Barnette. He's a committer to RubyGems. His initial attempt at fixing the test fixture problem shipped with Rails 2 over three years ago. In this course, John tries to build a simple group chat application. And amazingly, he actually completes a prototype and deploys it!
Table of contents
Introduction
1min
Chapter 1
45mins
Chapter 2
18mins
Chapter 3
25mins
About the authors
John Barnette has been keeping the lights on at tech companies since 1998, most recently at GitHub. In his increasingly rare spare time he speaks at programming and tech conferences, advises startups on platform and software strategy, and invents new (sometimes life-threating) cocktails.