A whirlwind tour of Ruby projects, off the Rails. There is more to Ruby than Rails and there is nothing wrong with Rails, we’re just pretending it doesn’t exist for the next 25 minutes...

1. Ruby - Behind the scenes
A whirlwind tour of Ruby projects, off the Rails

2. Kenneth Kalmer
CTO - Internet Exchange
opensourcery.co.za
@kennethkalmer
github.com/kennethkalmer

3. There is more to Ruby than
Rails
and there is nothing wrong with Rails, we’re just
pretending it doesn’t exist for the next 25
minutes...

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/5170454747/sizes/z/in/photostream/

5. Brace yourselves
This is going to be a quick overview of a bunch
of Ruby projects, old and new, each with their
own merits and applicability, and each worth a
whole presentation on their own, well,

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/301906536/sizes/z/in/photostream/

7. ruby-collectd
Send collectd stats from astro/ruby-collectd [GH]
your Ruby app
collectd.org
Graph whatever data you
want

8. agent
Attempt at GO-like igrigorik/agent [GH]
concurrency in Ruby
“Do not communicate by
sharing memory; instead,
share memory by
communicating.”

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweet_vengeance/4567219829/sizes/z/in/photostream/

10. Hackety Hack!
Teaching kids to program
Uses the shoes GUI toolkit
hackety-hack.com
shoesrb.com

11. rufus-scheduler
Like having cron jmettraux/rufus-scheduler
embedded in your Ruby [GH]
VM
Powerful scheduling DSL
Great error handling
Leveraged by ruote &
daemon-kit

12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulm/2994482/sizes/z/in/photostream/

13. chef
Complete server opscode.com
deployment &
configuration management
Wildly successful
Total infrastructure
management/insight
opscode/chef [GH]

14. ruby-pdns
Use Ruby to serve as a ripienaar/ruby-pdns [GH]
backend to PowerDNS
Different responses for
different countries
Randomize responses

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixiez/3063441058/sizes/z/in/photostream/

16. ruote
Pure Ruby workflow jmettraux/ruote [GH]
engine
ruote.rubyforge.org
Descriptively define
business processes
Execute workflows reliably
on an international scale

17. Kids Ruby
“Hack your homework” hybridgroup/kidsruby [GH]
Hackety Hack inspired www.kidsruby.com
Helping drive Ruby (via @JEG2)
adoption

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14652282@N04/4993757183/sizes/z/in/photostream/

19. Homebrew
Awesome *nix package mxcl/homebrew [GH]
management for OSX
Uses Ruby “formulae” to
drive compilation/
installation via a simple
DSL

20. Nanite
Self-assembling fabric of ezmobius/nanite [GH]
Ruby daemons
Scalable message
queueing backend
Self discovery
Dynamic load balancing

21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sepblog/3649959327/sizes/m/in/photostream/

22. Sourcify
A solution to extract the
code of a Proc, allowing
the Proc to be serialized
and passed around
ngty/sourcify [GH]

23. postgresql-plruby
PL/Ruby enables
PostgreSQL to leverage
Ruby for functions and
trigger procedures
knu/postgresql-plruby [GH]

24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanskainz/4122114599/sizes/z/in/photostream/

25. Haunted House
Client for the ISY-99i home JEG2/haunted_house [GH]
automation controller API
Keep the lights on, or off,
with Ruby!

26. rtunnel
Can’t use “ssh -R”, rtunnel coderrr/rtunnel [GH]
can setup reverse tunnels
for you
Leverages net-ssh & thin

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertogg/2915383885/sizes/z/in/photostream/

28. blather
Awesome XMPP client sprsquish/blather [GH]
library built on top of
EventMachine and
Nokogiri
Used by daemon-kit to
write simple XMPP
daemons

29. open4
open child process with ahoward/open4 [GH]
handles on pid, stdin,
stdout, and stderr
manage child processes
and their io handles easily.
Useful for driving low-level
*nix utils through Ruby

30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/3086398461/sizes/z/in/photostream/

31. Rubygame
Cross-platform multimedia rubygame.org
library
Entertainment software
Scientific visualizations
Educational/training tools
Interactive motion graphics

32. UPnP-MediaServer
Serve media files to your seattlerb.rubyforge.org/
PS3 using Ruby UPnP-MediaServer/
Work in progress

33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/picsbycam/4818638496/sizes/z/in/photostream/

34. parslet
A small Ruby library for kschiess/parslet [GH]
constructing parsers in the
PEG (Parsing Expression
Grammar) fashion.
Good error reporting
(unlike Treetop)
No code generation, easier
debug

35. daemon-kit
Build reliable, stable
daemonized applications
with Ruby
Helpers get you going fast
kennethkalmer/daemon-kit
[GH]

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/helmutoelkers/1106183458/sizes/z/in/photostream/

37. Inspired?
This is a taster, and by no means authoritative.
Ruby is an awesome language, and a vibrant
community, and works just as well off the Rails
than on it.

38. What is your next project
going to be?