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Monday 23rd April 2012
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Using Backbone.js with Rails: Patterns from the Wild
by Sarah Mei
Backbone.js is a flexible, lightweight tool for structuring the JavaScript in a modern web application. It goes great with Rails! But beware - "flexible and lightweight" are code words for "you build your own plumbing." Backbone is new enough that we haven't established strong patterns for that plumbing yet, so different Backbone codebases look very different, and when you're new to the idea of structuring your JavaScript, it can be tough to tell where the win is.
So in this talk I'll demystify Backbone. I'll show several very different ways I've used it on real Rails apps. You'll get a feel for the circumstances when Backbone makes sense, and moreover, when each of the different approaches to Backbone make sense.
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Realtime web applications with streaming REST
by Brad Gessler
As more people collaborate on the web with your applications, its not enough to just persist data to the database; it needs to be pushed out to your users web browsers so that they're always working with the freshest data.
In this session, Brad will show how to build a real-time layer on top of an existing Rails application's authorization and resource logic so that you can build on top of the hard work already invested in your Rails application.
Topics that will be discussed include:
- Why I didn't choose Socket.IO
- Stream application resources into Backbone.js models to keep data fresh
- Hook into ActiveRecord to push representations of data into a message queue
- Message queue naming conventions public/private resource streams
- Exposing message queues to HTTP
- Securing streams with existing application authorization logic
- Considerations for streaming in a production environment