tools/solutions used in Beansmile

1. Toolset of Beansmile
things we’d love to share
beansmile.com
Thursday, September 22, 11

2. Talk about
• API framework: Grape
• SMS & Call solution: Twillio
• Chart: HighCharts
• i18n: routing-filter
• Testing: show_me_the_cookies
• PDF: wicked_pdf
Thursday, September 22, 11

3. Grape
• A Ruby framework for rapid API
development with great conventions.
• gem 'grape'
https://github.com/intridea/grape
• api doc: http://rubydoc.info/gems/grape/
0.1.5/frames
• feature:
- simple, easy reading, easy coding
- one version one file
Thursday, September 22, 11

4. Demo
routes
before filter
Thursday, September 22, 11

5. Twilio
• Twilio provides infrastructure APIs for
businesses to build scalable, reliable voice
and text messaging apps.
http://www.twilio.com/
• gem 'twilio-ruby'
A Ruby gem for communicating with the
Twilio API and generating TwiML
https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby
• api doc: http://www.twilio.com/docs
Thursday, September 22, 11

6. Demo
Thursday, September 22, 11

7. Demo
notifications#deliver
deliver.xml.builder
Thursday, September 22, 11

8. Highcharts
• Highcharts is a charting library written in
pure JavaScript, offering intuitive, interactive
charts to your web site or web application.
Highcharts currently supports line, spline,
area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter
chart types.
• homepage: http://www.highcharts.com/
• railscasts: http://railscasts.com/episodes/
223-charts
• Free for Non-commercial
Thursday, September 22, 11

9. Demo
more demos: http://www.highcharts.com/demo
Thursday, September 22, 11

10. Demo
Update chart with Ajax
Thursday, September 22, 11

11. routing-filter
• routing-filter wraps around the complex
beast that the Rails routing system is,
allowing for unseen flexibility and power in
Rails URL recognition and generation.
• gem 'routing-filter'
• source: https://github.com/svenfuchs/
routing-filter
Thursday, September 22, 11

12. Demo
Thursday, September 22, 11

13. show_me_the_cookies
• Cookie manipulation for Capybara (view,
delete, …)
• gem 'show_me_the_cookies'
• https://github.com/nruth/show_me_the_cookies
• Example usage
Thursday, September 22, 11

14. RSpec demo
Demo
Thursday, September 22, 11

15. cucumber demo
key steps
Thursday, September 22, 11

16. wicked_pdf
• PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf
• require 'wkhtmltopdf' : http://code.google.com/p/
wkhtmltopdf/
• gem 'wicked_pdf'
Thursday, September 22, 11

17. Demo
Base usage
Thursday, September 22, 11

18. Demo
Send email
Thursday, September 22, 11

19. Quenstions?
Thursday, September 22, 11