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
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
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
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