Ruby on Rails By Miguel Vega [email_address] http://www.upstrat.com/ and Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz [email_address] http://rails.aizatto.com/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Who Am I? Miguel Vega 1 ½ years doing Ruby and Rails PHP before then Started a company (upstrat) just to have an excuse to use rails.

Miguel Vega

1 ½ years doing Ruby and Rails

PHP before then

Started a company (upstrat) just to have an excuse to use rails.

Who Am I? Multiple Names Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz Aizat Faiz aizatto That scrubby looking guy on the screen Student Free and Open Source (FOSS) Enthusiast Local FOSS Champion http://foss.org.my Web Developer Ruby on Rails LAMP

Multiple Names

Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz

Aizat Faiz

aizatto

That scrubby looking guy on the screen

Student

Free and Open Source (FOSS) Enthusiast

Local FOSS Champion

http://foss.org.my

Web Developer

Ruby on Rails

LAMP

What is Ruby on Rails?

What is

Ruby on Rails?

Built on Ruby Programming Language

Built on

Ruby Programming Language

Web Application Framework

Web Application Framework

+ =

Wait! Unexpected Side Effect!

Wait!

Unexpected

Side Effect!

YOU =

YOU =

Why Ruby?

Why Ruby?

A great man once said Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines . They think, “By doing this, the machine will run faster . By doing this, the machine will run more effectively . By doing this, the machine will something something something ”

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines .

They think,

“By doing this, the machine will run faster .

By doing this, the machine will run more effectively .

By doing this, the machine will something something something ”

They are focusing on machines . But in fact we need to focus on humans , on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters . They are the slaves .

By doing this, the machine will something something something

By doing this,

the machine will something something something

We are the masters , they are the slaves Yukihiro Matsumoto Creator of Ruby

We are the masters ,

they are the slaves

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Creator of Ruby

They are the SLAVES!

They are the SLAVES!

and I think we keep forgetting that

and I think we keep forgetting that

Ruby brings...

Ruby brings...

Large Increase in Productivity

Large Increase in Productivity

How? Non traditional programming style

How?

Non traditional programming style

Everything is an Object string = String .new 5 .times do puts " Hello World " end # Hello World # Hello World # Hello World # Hello World # Hello World

Everything is an Object 1 .upto( 100 ) { | i | puts i } # 1 # 2 # 3 # ... # 100 3.141_592_65 .ceil # 4 2.71828182845905 .floor # 2

Blocks (aka Closures) patients.each do | patient | if patient.ill? physician.examine patient else patient.jump_for_joy! end end

Blocks (aka Closures) hello = Proc .new do | string | puts " Hello #{string.upcase}" end hello.call ' Aizat ' # Hello AIZAT hello.call ' World ' # Hello WORLD

Open Classes class String def sanitize self .gsub( / [^a-z1-9]+ /i , ' _ ' ) end end puts " Ruby gives you alot of $$$ yo! " .sanitize # Ruby_gives_you_alot_of_yo_

Open Classes class Array def rand self [ Kernel ::rand(size)] end end puts %w[ a b c d e f g ] .rand # "e"

Open Classes class Array def shuffle size.downto( 1 ) { | n | push delete_at( Kernel ::rand(n)) } self end end puts %w[ a b c d e f g ] .shuffle.inspect # ["c", "e", "f", "g", "b", "d", "a"]

Open Classes class Numeric def seconds self end def minutes self .seconds * 60 end def hours self .minutes * 60 end def days self .hours * 24 end def weeks self .days * 7 end alias second seconds alias minute minutes alias hour hours alias day days alias week weeks end

Open Classes 1 .second # 1 1 .minute # 60 7.5 .minutes # 450.0 3 .hours # 10800 10.75 hours # 38700 24 .hours # 86400 31 .days # 2678400 51 .weeks # 30844800 365 .days # 31536000 Time .now # Thu May 10 12:10:00 0800 2007 Time .now - 5 .hours # Thu May 10 07:10:00 0800 2007 Time .now - 3 .days # Mon May 07 12:10:00 0800 2007 Time .now - 1 .week # Thu May 03 12:10:00 0800 2007

This is how Rails does its magic

This is how Rails does its magic

and more...

and more...

What is Rails? Convention over Configuration

What is Rails?

Convention over Configuration

MVC Model View Controller

MVC

Model View Controller

M VC Model View Controller

M VC

Model View Controller

ActiveRecord Object Relation Mapping (ORM) Class to Table, Object to Row CRUD simple Database Agnostic

Object Relation Mapping (ORM)

Class to Table, Object to Row

CRUD simple

Database Agnostic

ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord::Base#find class Patient < ActiveRecord :: Base end Patient .find( 1 ) # SELECT * FROM patients WHERE id = 1 Patient .find_by_name ' Miguel Vega ' # SELECT * FROM patients WHERE name = 'Miguel Vega' Patient .find_by_date_of_birth ' 1986-07-24 ' # SELECT * FROM patients WHERE date_of_birth = '1986-07-24' Patient .find_by_name_and_date_of_birth ' Miguel Vega ' , ' 1986-07-24 ' # SELECT * FROM patients WHERE name = 'Miguel Vega' AND date_of_birth = '1986-07-24'

ActiveRecord::Base#find Patient .count # SELECT COUNT(*) AS count Patient .find :all , :order => ' name DESC ' # SELECT * FROM patients ORDER BY name DESC Patient .find :all , :conditions => [ &quot; name LIKE ? &quot; , &quot; The other guy &quot; ] # SELECT * FROM patients WHERE name = 'The other guy'

Models class Patient < ActiveRecord :: Base end class Encounter < ActiveRecord :: Base end class Physican < ActiveRecord :: Base end

Associations class Patient < ActiveRecord :: Base has_many :encounters has_many :physicans , :through => :encounters end class Encounter < ActiveRecord :: Base belongs_to :patient belongs_to :physician end class Physican < ActiveRecord :: Base has_many :encounters has_many :patients , :through => :encounters end

Smart Defaults class Patient < ActiveRecord :: Base has_many :encounters , :class_name => ' Encounter ' , :foreign_key => ' patient_id ' has_many :physicans , :through => :encounters , :class_name => ' Physician ' , :foreign_key => ' physician_id ' end class Encounter < ActiveRecord :: Base belongs_to :patient , :class_name => ' Patient ' , :foreign_key => ' patient_id ' belongs_to :physician , :class_name => ' Physician ' , :foreign_key => ' physician_id ' end class Physican < ActiveRecord :: Base has_many :encounters , :class_name => ' Encounter ' , :foreign_key => ' patient_id ' has_many :patients , :through => :encounters , :class_name => ' Patient ' , :foreign_key => ' patient_id ' end

Or what people like to call Convention over Configuration

Associations p = Patient .find :first # SELECT * FROM patients LIMIT 1 p.encounters.count # SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM encounters WHERE (patient_id = 1) p.encounters.find :condition => [ ' date <= ? ' Time .now - 12 .weeks] # SELECT * FROM encounters WHERE date <= '2007-02-13 16:19:29' AND (patient_id = 1)

Validations class Patient < ActiveRecord :: Base has_many :encounters has_many :physicans , :through => :encounters validates_presence_of :name validates_inclusion_of :gender , :in => [ ' male ' , ' female ' ] validates_email_of :email validates_numericality_of :age validates_confirmation_of :password end

MV C Model View Controller

MV C

Model View Controller

ActionController Separation of business logic and presentation Ideally there should be no logic in the view

Separation of business logic and presentation

Ideally there should be no logic in the view

ActionController class PatientController < ApplicationController def index @patient = Patient .find :first @title = ' Patient Detail ' @homepage_title = &quot; Patient: #{@patient.name}&quot; end end

M V C Model View Controller

M V C

Model View Controller

View < html > < head > < title > <%= @title %> </ title > </ head > < body > < h1 > <%= @homepage_title %> </ h1 > < b > Patient: </ b > < dl > < dt > Name </ dt > < dd > <%= @patient .name %> </ dd > </ dl > <%= render :partial => ' patient_details ' %> </ body > </ html >

Why Rails?

Why Rails?

Convention over Configuration

Convention over Configuration

Easy SQL ActiveRecord::Base#find

Easy SQL

ActiveRecord::Base#find

Easy SQL Even through associations

Easy SQL

Even through associations

RAD/RID Rapid Application Development Rapid Iterative Development

RAD/RID

Rapid Application Development

Rapid Iterative Development

Testing Framework Built in Unit, Function, Integration testing

Testing Framework

Built in Unit, Function, Integration testing

Awesome Plugin Structure

Awesome Plugin Structure

Simpler and Nicer looking Code

Simpler and Nicer looking Code

Web 2.0 Ready Tagging, Folksonomy, Ajax, REST

Web 2.0 Ready

Tagging, Folksonomy, Ajax, REST

Simply RESTful

Simply RESTful

DRY Don't Repeat Yourself

DRY

Don't Repeat Yourself

DRY Don't Repeat Yourself

DRY

Don't Repeat Yourself

DRY Saves time Easier to manage Reusable Code Best of all...

Saves time

Easier to manage

Reusable Code

Best of all...

You don't look like a code monkey

You don't look like a

code monkey

Most Importantly

Most Importantly

Because it's FUN

Because it's

FUN

Questions?

Questions?

Thank you amcvega@gmail.com - aizat.faiz@gmail.com Images used are from Tango Desktop Project http://tango.freedesktop.org/

Thank you

amcvega@gmail.com - aizat.faiz@gmail.com