Ruby, Rails, and the Open Source Community

Public archival of a presentation I did back in 2010 at OpenFest in Athens, Greece.

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1. Ruby, Rails, and the Open Source Community
3. Created and released in 1995 as open source by Yukihiro Matsumoto.
4. ⟵ This Guy. Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto
5. Ruby is simple & elegant, but yet extremely powerful and complex. -199.abs # 199 "ruby is cool".length # 12 "Your mother is nice.".index("u") # 2 "Nice Day Isn't It?".downcase.split("").uniq.sort.join # " '?acdeinsty"
6. Ruby didn’t get much attention outside of Japan until 1999.
7. In 2005 with the rise of Ruby on Rails, Ruby as a language started gaining international attention.
8. Ruby on Rails
9. Created in 2003 as part of Basecamp at 37signals.
10. Released as open source in 2004 by it’s creator, David Heinemeier Hansson.
11. ⟵ This Guy. David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh)
12. Rails is a MVC web- development framework.
13. Based on Convention over Configuration (CoC) and Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principles.
14. Rails all of a sudden allowed web- developers to build stunning and complex web applications faster than ever before. And it was fun too :)
15. Rails currently powers a large number of high and low profile websites. • Penny Arcade • Urban Dictionary • Shopify • Justin.tv • iLike • Kongregate • SoundCloud • and more...
16. The Ruby & Rails Communities
17. Both Ruby, and Rails have gained most of their traction thanks to being open source, and the communities that grew around the two projects.
18. Ruby v1.9.0 switched to a new and faster interpreter called YARV. Developed by Koichi Sasada.
19. (no photo this time, thanks Google)
20. In short, Ruby officially adopted a new core technology developed by a member of the open source community.
21. Ruby on Rails has to date nearly 1400 contributors, and over 13000 commits in the official Git repository.
22. Let’s take a closer look.
35. The Merb and Rails merger is one of many examples of how versatile open source communities really are.
36. Git and GitHub has obviously been a very successful tool for the Rails Core Team.
37. Thanks to Rails moving to GitHub around the time of GitHub’s public launch, the Ruby community was one of the first to fully embrace Git and GitHub.
38. GitHub User & Language Map Ruby Python Perl
39. Also, humor is always important.
41. Developing with Rails Plugins
42. Thanks to an enormous amount of plugins available for Rails, you can sometimes get close to a feature complete product in hours.
43. • AuthLogic: Complete and fully featured User Authentication system. (30 minutes) • AuthLogic Extensions: Facebook Connect, OAuth, OpenID, and more. (10-30 minutes each) • Delayed Job: Easily run background processes for email sending or other long running tasks, by changing a single line of code. (5 minutes) • Whenever: Easily configure and update crontasks (10 minutes) Some Favorite Rails Plugins
44. There are many many more amazing plugins and gems which simplifies your life tremendously. Now go digging yourself ;)
45. Thanks for Watching Rails Impact Graph taken from: http://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/impact GitHub User & Language map taken from: http://lumberjaph.net/blog/index.php/2010/03/07/github-explorer-a-preview/ Jim Myhrberg (contact@jimeh.me) http://jimeh.me/