Ruby: A Wonderfully Diverse Ecosystem

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

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

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

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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

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

12. kaksibiljoonaa ! kaksisataakolmekymmentäyksimiljoonaa kahdeksansataakaksikymmentäkuusituhatta kuusikymmentäviisi

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

14. There’s a Gem for That

15. Web Sites & Web Applications • Rails - Web Applications

    • Sinatra - General purpose web interface • Rack - Low Level • Jekyll - Static Site Generator

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

    • Goliath • Passenger

17. Templating & Markup • ERB • Mustache • Handlebars •

    Liquid • HAML • Slim

18. Databases & ORM • ActiveRecord • Sequel • ROM: Ruby

    Object Mapper • Redis, Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, Firebase, and pretty much anything you can think of

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

    your Ruby interpreter.

20. We have multiple interpreters

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29. There’s a Ruby for that

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

31. Ruby is International

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35. People Make the Places

36. The Ruby Rogues Chuck James Avdi Josh Katrina

37. Random Fun Guys

38. Aaron Patterson @tenderlove

39. _why?

40. Linda Luikas

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

    everyone

43. Kiitos