Ruby Invoicing Framework Gem

A talk at London Ruby User Group (LRUG), London, UK, 20 Apr 2009

• Video

This talk at LRUG presented the v0.2 release of the Ruby invoicing gem. The main new feature of this release is a Rails generator script which can be invoked with script/generate invoicing_ledger in the root directory of a Rails project. This generates a default set of model objects, a database migration, a controller, views and some routes; enough to get started with using the gem’s features very quickly.

To demonstrate just quite how quickly the invoicing gem allows you to add commercial features to your application I decided that it would be a good idea to have no slides, but to spend the entire 25 minutes I was allocated to give a live demo. That is rather scary for a speaker because a million things can go wrong (and indeed several things did), but with a forgiving audience it ended up also being a lot of fun.

Skills Matter, who host the LRUG events, kindly recorded the talk and put it online. It’s a bit hard to see exactly what I’m typing in that video, but you can follow the exact steps from the notes I wrote myself for that presentation, and the example application I used, cracktastic, is also on GitHub.