Ruby: A Wonderfully Diverse Ecosystem

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1. Ruby: A Wonderfully
   Diverse Ecosystem
   Oulu 2013
   Adam Hawkins
   

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2. Tervetuloa!
   • Mina olen Adam
   • Lived in Helsinki between 2010 and 2011
   • Total Ruby Nerd
   • Finland FTW (even though I live in Sweden)
   • Passionate about FOSS & Ruby
   

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3. kolmekymmentäkaksimiljoonaa!
   viisisataakolmekymmentäneljätuhatta !
   seitsemänsataaviisikymmentäkuus
   Zomg, Snow!
   - About a million C
   

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4. Ruby Itself
   • Conceived my Yahkiro “Matz” Matsumoto in the
   early 90s
   • Über success via Ruby on Rails & DHH
   • Powers Github (arguably most influential website
   in the past 5 years)
   • Has something for everyone
   

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5. Easy to Start
   

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11. Gem Facts
    • 2,231,826,065 gem downloads
    • 65,023 total gems
    • 28,790,750 downloads for Rails
    • 11,266,979 for RSpec
    • 9,954,759 for Sinatra
    

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12. kaksibiljoonaa !
    kaksisataakolmekymmentäyksimiljoonaa
    kahdeksansataakaksikymmentäkuusituhatta
    kuusikymmentäviisi
    

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13. Ruby Gems vs Finland
    • Everyone in Helsinki would need to download 4
    gems at once
    • There are probably more lakes in Finland than
    there testing gems
    • Twice as many residents in Oulu then that are
    Ruby Gems
    

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14. There’s a Gem for That
    

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15. Web Sites & Web
    Applications
    • Rails - Web Applications
    • Sinatra - General purpose web interface
    • Rack - Low Level
    • Jekyll - Static Site Generator
    

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16. Web Servers
    • Thin
    • Puma
    • Unicorn
    • Rainbows
    • Goliath
    • Passenger
    

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17. Templating & Markup
    • ERB
    • Mustache
    • Handlebars
    • Liquid
    • HAML
    • Slim
    

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18. Databases & ORM
    • ActiveRecord
    • Sequel
    • ROM: Ruby Object Mapper
    • Redis, Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, Firebase, and
    pretty much anything you can think of
    

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19. If choosing a gem is hard,
    wait until you choose your
    Ruby interpreter.
    

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20. We have multiple
    interpreters
    

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29. There’s a Ruby for that
    

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30. Now a personal story about how Ruby changed my life
    By moving me from San Francisco, CA to Helsinki, Finland
    And opening my life up to so many new possibilities
    

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31. Ruby is International
    

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35. People Make the
    Places
    

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36. The Ruby Rogues
    Chuck James
    Avdi
    Josh Katrina
    

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37. Random Fun Guys
    

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38. Aaron Patterson
    @tenderlove
    

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39. _why?
    

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40. Linda Luikas
    

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42. My point is, that the Ruby
    community as something
    for everyone
    

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43. Kiitos
    

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