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Adam Hawkins
October 30, 2013
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Ruby: A Wonderfully Diverse Ecosystem
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Transcript
Ruby: A Wonderfully Diverse Ecosystem Oulu 2013 Adam Hawkins
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
kolmekymmentäkaksimiljoonaa! viisisataakolmekymmentäneljätuhatta ! seitsemänsataaviisikymmentäkuus Zomg, Snow! - About a million
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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
Easy to Start
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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
kaksibiljoonaa ! kaksisataakolmekymmentäyksimiljoonaa kahdeksansataakaksikymmentäkuusituhatta kuusikymmentäviisi
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
There’s a Gem for That
Web Sites & Web Applications • Rails - Web Applications
• Sinatra - General purpose web interface • Rack - Low Level • Jekyll - Static Site Generator
Web Servers • Thin • Puma • Unicorn • Rainbows
• Goliath • Passenger
Templating & Markup • ERB • Mustache • Handlebars •
Liquid • HAML • Slim
Databases & ORM • ActiveRecord • Sequel • ROM: Ruby
Object Mapper • Redis, Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, Firebase, and pretty much anything you can think of
If choosing a gem is hard, wait until you choose
your Ruby interpreter.
We have multiple interpreters
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There’s a Ruby for that
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
Ruby is International
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People Make the Places
The Ruby Rogues Chuck James Avdi Josh Katrina
Random Fun Guys
Aaron Patterson @tenderlove
_why?
Linda Luikas
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My point is, that the Ruby community as something for
everyone
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