Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an open-source web application framework that enhances productivity through rapid development and structured code, resulting in satisfied clients and developers. The framework has fostered a vibrant community, with significant demand for RoR developers and numerous applications across various sectors. The future of RoR appears promising, with trends indicating a shift towards migrating legacy applications to Rails and integrating new technologies.

1. Ruby on Rails – Industry Trends
Sumanth Krishna. A
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2. Agenda
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Ruby on Rails – What it is?
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Why industry embracing RoR?
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Technologies/Opportunities involved
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Some cool applications
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Community
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What's the future?

3. Ruby on Rails What it is?

4. Ruby on Rails
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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web
application framework written with Ruby
programming language.
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The benefits of the speed and agility of
building applications in Rails, which results in
increased productivity and company growth
is the successful driving factor
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Commonly also termed as Rails, RoR

5. Industry looks for...

6. Industry looks for
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Rapid development
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Well structured code – easy to maintain
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Faster delivery
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Clients happy
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Developers happy
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More & Continuous business

7. Technologies

8. Technologies
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Every new technology is a business
opportunity... Rails had brought many
practices/techcnologies into lime light
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Agile Methodologies
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SRUM
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Behavior & Test Driven Development
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AJAX
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jQuery/json/Scriptaculous
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MVC framework
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ORM design pattern
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RESTful architecture

9. Statistics

10. Show me stats...
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Demand for RoR developers is high!
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More Rails projects around

11. Customization Projects

12. e-commerce - Spree

13. eLearning - Fedena

14. CMS - Redmine

15. Micro blogging – stat.us

16. Social Networking - insoshi

17. Bug Tracking - retrospectiva

18. Blog - Wagn

19. Community

20. Community
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Very Very Very active community
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52,829 gems/plug-in's since July, 2009
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1,382,729,318 downloads
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www.rubygems.org
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www.rubyforge.net
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www.opensourcerails.com
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Google groups
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Ruby/Rails groups

21. Future

22. Future
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Very Bright future
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Trend towards migrating some of the legacy
applications to Ruby on Rails
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Eg., YellowPages
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Not just applications even technology
migrations
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Java to Ruby through jRuby
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.Net to Rails through ironRuby

23. Thanks
References –
www.opensourcerails.com
www.indeed.com
www.wikipedia.org