Ask HN: Best environment for non-rails front end developer?

2 points by julesie 13 years ago | 2 comments

What environment would you give a front end designer/developer with no knowledge of Ruby on Rails?

This is assuming that their work will need to be integrated into an existing RoR app.

Would you?

a) set them up with a rails environment and let them write static html in the view files

b) no rails environment but access to git repo, let them right static pages in public folder calling relevant assets

c) completely separate folder with just their html/css/js/img files

d) something else entirely

drstewart 13 years ago |

For designers (not front-end devs), we have a completely separate repo based on Bootstrap that lets them tweak styles to their hearts content. Once they're done, they update and tag the version (it's a Ruby gem), which our apps can pull in by just updating the Gemfile. Makes it easy for both parties.

sherm8n 13 years ago |

There's no right answer to this. Can you experiment and see what works best for your team?

I gave a designer my laptop once to work on a rails project. She had no problem editing haml and css files. So I would try that for the first experiment.