Rapid Prototyping with Rails
April 2, 2008
I am currently in Zürich and working on an extemely hot startup project there. The customer heard that with Rails you can prototype pretty fast…
I am working with two experienced Java- and J2EE- developer there, however they did not have any Ruby- or Rails- experience. So my task for this week is to create a prototype and at the same time to spread some Ruby but especially Rails knowledge among developers.
So after tree days:
- we have discussed the requiremnts and the problem domain with the project owner
- everybody has his devenv, mysql running
- new developers are confident in the usage of
rake, scaffolding andscript/generatein common, named routes and routing debugging - every developer created (and commited) his part of the model, along with rudimentary (adjusted scaffold-generated) user interface
- we have put some lookup-data into db data migrations
- we had an internal show and decided to make some changes on the workflow and the user interface
It is unbelievable, how much you can achive with learning/teaching Rails provided:
- people are open to the new concepts
- the motivation is high and there is a practical problem at hand