sf-wdi-37 / ruby-lightning-talks

[lightning talk, ruby, gem]

Ruby on Rails Lightning Talks

Your goal is to create an exceedingly brief presentation of a ruby gem (~5 min).

Include a live demo or a working code example. Please also create a brief github gist (or "cheat sheet") for your fellow developers, outlining your findings, and linking to any helpful tutorials, resources, hints, and tips you discover in your research.

This is a great project to use as a blog post and/or describe to potential employers.

You should aim to answer the following questions:

• What problem does the gem solve?
• How do you use it in a rails app?

Topic/Gem Ideas

Once you pick a gem, sign up in this google doc.

Here are a few gems you could research:

• httparty
• rdoc
• nokogiri
• rqrcode
• Stripe
• better_errors for Rails
• awesome_print
• githug

Browse way more gems at Ruby Toolbox (outdated) or the newer rubygems.org!

Even more gems are listed at an "awesome-ruby" repo and semi-recent tutsplus article.

You are welcome to suggest a gem not listed here!

Examples

This lightning talk does a good job switching between slides and live-coding. We want you to live code! It's funny. You don't need to be funny!

This one is dense with good information! It's also funny - you don't need to be funny.