Riding the Latest Rails for Charity
summary
Company runs an internal DashCon hackathon that produces three open‑source projects for charities, including Grantzilla (replaces an Access grants workflow) and StockAid for Greatful Garments (turns an Excel inventory into a responsive pick‑and‑walk app). Team experiments with Rails 5 then falls back to a stable stack, aims to deliver an MVP in three days, and keeps iterating afterward; commits spike during the event and many continue contributing off hours. Practical lessons: meet the charity, set expectations, ship a skateboard MVP, and hand off maintenance.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:48Teach kids how to code
- 5:07What motivates you
- 5:52Learning to code
- 10:20Frustration with teachers
- 12:23Making a difference
- 14:22One direction
- 18:34OnSitecom
- 22:08Housing Industry Foundation
- 25:59Planning
- 28:26GrantZilla
- 29:09Grateful garments
- 30:33Overbuild
- 32:00Stockade
- 34:10Code for Charity
- 35:47Find Your Dream Job
- 36:49Recap
- 39:01Give to these charities
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