Ruby Beyond Rails

Ruby Beyond Rails Lanka Ruby User Group 28 October 2009 Gaveen Prabhasara http://gaveen.owain.org

Ruby beyond Rails

1993 Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Creates Ruby Ruby beyond Rails

Late 90s Ruby gets Recognition outside Japan Ruby beyond Rails

2004 DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) Creates Ruby on Rails Ruby beyond Rails

Then Ruby becomes mainstream Ruby beyond Rails

Now Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term for Ruby on Rails Ruby beyond Rails

Now Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term for Ruby on Rails And Everything is Fine! :) Ruby beyond Rails

Ruby beyond Rails

Ruby is a Web programming language, right? Ruby beyond Rails

No! (And sort of Yes) Ruby beyond Rails

What else can Ruby Do? Ruby beyond Rails

Quite a lot actually Ruby beyond Rails

“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

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

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

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

Let's see what else is there Ruby beyond Rails

Before we start http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/ruby-isnt-just-about-rails-presentation Ruby beyond Rails

Web Application Frameworks Ruby beyond Rails

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

Lightweight Web Servers Ruby beyond Rails

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

Web Servers Interface Ruby beyond Rails

In the form of Rack, unifies the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between http://rack.rubyforge.org/ Ruby beyond Rails

Scripting Ruby beyond Rails

Ruby has always been a popular choice as a Scripting language Ruby beyond Rails

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

There is also a Ruby Shell available for scripting purposes http://rush.heroku.com/ Ruby beyond Rails

Security Ruby beyond Rails

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

Mobile Applications Ruby beyond Rails

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

VoIP Ruby beyond Rails

Adhearsion project brings the elegance of Ruby Into the voice application domain http://adhearsion.com/ Ruby beyond Rails

Deployment Ruby beyond Rails

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

Infrastructure Management Ruby beyond Rails

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

What do you think now? Ruby beyond Rails

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

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

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