Ruby Beyond Rails
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Slides from my session at Lanka Ruby User Group meetup (28th Oct 2009). I talked about why Ruby is much more than just Rails and web applications.
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- 1. Ruby Beyond Rails Lanka Ruby User Group 28 October 2009 Gaveen Prabhasara http://gaveen.owain.org
- 3. 1993 Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Creates Ruby Ruby beyond Rails
- 4. Late 90s Ruby gets Recognition outside Japan Ruby beyond Rails
- 5. 2004 DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) Creates Ruby on Rails Ruby beyond Rails
- 6. Then Ruby becomes mainstream Ruby beyond Rails
- 7. Now Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term for Ruby on Rails Ruby beyond Rails
- 8. Now Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term for Ruby on Rails And Everything is Fine! :) Ruby beyond Rails
- 10. Ruby is a Web programming language, right? Ruby beyond Rails
- 11. No! (And sort of Yes) Ruby beyond Rails
- 12. What else can Ruby Do? Ruby beyond Rails
- 13. Quite a lot actually Ruby beyond Rails
- 14. “a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.” - Ruby Official Website "a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language... - Wikipedia http://www.ruby-lang.org/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 15. has many implementations MRI/YARV, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby, MagLev, Blue Ruby, MacRuby, HotRuby, tinyrb, etc. Which means Ruby is available on many Software platforms Ruby beyond Rails
- 16. can run in many environments Linux, Windows, MacOS X, SymbianOS, Common Unix variants, etc. Which means Ruby is available on many Operating Systems Ruby beyond Rails
- 17. Among other things, Good string processing Good RegEx engine (Oniguruma) Easy network programming Highly readable code Low entry barrier High developer happiness Ruby beyond Rails
- 18. Let's see what else is there Ruby beyond Rails
- 19. Before we start http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/ruby-isnt-just-about-rails-presentation Ruby beyond Rails
- 20. Web Application Frameworks Ruby beyond Rails
- 21. Ruby can be used to program web applications If you like with many available options such as http://rubyonrails.org/ http://merbivore.org/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 22. Lightweight Web Servers Ruby beyond Rails
- 23. There are quite a few lightweight web servers/ Web server libraries written in Ruby http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 24. Web Servers Interface Ruby beyond Rails
- 25. In the form of Rack, unifies the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between http://rack.rubyforge.org/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 27. Ruby has always been a popular choice as a Scripting language Ruby beyond Rails
- 28. Other than that there are several scripting Tools available in the Ruby world Rake - http://rake.rubyforge.org/ Thor - http://github.com/wycats/thor Boson - http://github.com/cldwalker/boson Ruby beyond Rails
- 29. There is also a Ruby Shell available for scripting purposes http://rush.heroku.com/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 31. The popular Open Source Exploitation Framework and Security tool Metasploit is written with Ruby From the web UI to the disassembler http://www.metasploit.com/ Plus the Metasploit Rex library (Ruby) which is included in the Motasploit Framework contains a lot a goodies. Check it out! Ruby beyond Rails
- 32. Mobile Applications Ruby beyond Rails
- 33. Ruby native implementation is already available under certain versions of SymbianOS Rhodes mobile application framework enables the development of cross-platform mobile applications For iPhone, Android, WinMo, Symbian, BlackBerry using Ruby which are compiled into native code http://rhomobile.com/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 35. Adhearsion project brings the elegance of Ruby Into the voice application domain http://adhearsion.com/ Ruby beyond Rails
- 37. Capistrano makes deploying Ruby web applications (and others up to a certain mark) very easy http://www.capify.org/ There are alternatives to Capistrano (for Rails deployment) such as Vlad - http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html Inploy - http://github.com/dcrec1/inploy Ruby beyond Rails
- 38. Infrastructure Management Ruby beyond Rails
- 39. Puppet is the current industry champion in the Configuration Management game http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ Chef is another tool similar to Puppet http://github.com/opscode/chef Ruby beyond Rails
- 40. What do you think now? Ruby beyond Rails
- 41. For further information have a look at the white paper “The Ruby and Rails Ecosystem” http://www.infoether.com/ruby-and-rails-whitepaper Disclaimer: The author was completely unaware of this whitepaper when he was preparing these slides Ruby beyond Rails
- 42. These are just generic introductions Had to manage within the time constraints Hope to do some hands on sessions in future Q&A Ruby beyond Rails