RapidApp talk and live demo presented at YAPC::NA 2016 in Orlando, FL on June 21st.

In this talk I'll demonstrate building a new database-driven application from scratch using RapidApp. We'll start by creating a schema, then bootstrapping and customizing an application. I'll focus on the areas which consistently produce the most questions on IRC, including:

• Lifecycle for writing and modifying database schemas
• Extending the built-in authentication and authorization systems
• Writing custom user permissions
• Hooking custom code in the backend
• Writing custom and virtualized columns
• Creating custom grid classes and other RapidApp modules

Finally, we'll look at the latest and greatest ways to quickly deploy applications using Docker containers, with newly-available rapi/psgi RapidApp image, now on Docker Hub.

Both the slideshow itself as well as the demo application created during the talk are working PSGI apps, available on GitHub:

Slideshow:

github.com/RapidApp/yn2016

Demo app (built during the talk):

github.com/RapidApp/Rapi-Demo-LogView

Tool used to replay code edits during the talk:

github.com/vanstyn/repo-cycler

Run the slideshow yourself:

# Clone the repo:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/RapidApp/yn2016
cd yn2015/

# Start-up app.psgi web-server on local port 5000:
# (Note: use forward/back arrow keys to advance slides)
plackup

See also the talk page on the yapcna.org site:

• http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/talk/6587