It is important for your sanity and your team’s morale to stay organized during a software development project. This is important so that communication does not break down and the customer receives the software they paid for.  In this presentation, we will see what techniques and tools we can use to make this happen throughout all stages of a software project.

Building an application in a new language can be a daunting task but it is the best way to learn a new language. This session is a review of what tools, libraries, and methods that were used to build Morale, a software as a service application developed in Ruby on Rails. We will learn about why these tools were chosen and what alternatives exist. We will review what was used for the development, the testing, and the deployment of a production application with a web component, an api component, and a commerce component. This will serve as a shortcut to anyone looking to build their first Ruby on Rails application.