OAuth and Rails Presented at:

• Mad-Railers Meetup - 24 Jun, 2013

Starting with a Rails 3.2 application with Devise installed and configured, learn how easy it is to add OAuth login support using the omniauth gem ecosystem. Includes sample code to use as a sandbox.

Environmental Studies 101 Presented at:

• Mad-Railers Meetup - 25 Feb, 2013

This talk discusses some Rails-related gems and tools I was using in Winter 2013 that I felt were huge productivity boosts. The slides discuss a variety of different developer-focused enhancements that make debugging and logging easier, along with a UI enhancement library thrown in for good measure because I loved how configurable it was.

Backbone.js, Rails 3.2, and Handlebars Presented at:

• Mad-Railers Meetup - March, 2012
• MadJS Meetup - 12 March, 2012

This talk introduces some solutions to challenges that surface when you start digging just beneath the surface of Todo applications using Backbone.js and Rails. I discuss some gems and javascript libraries that make bootstrapping apps easier, help with model relationships, and end with some tips on getting started with Backbone.