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