Ruby, RoR, RestClient, and GData @ AllPlayers.com

Arturo Contreras slides from AllPlayers.com Eat 'n Geek on Ruby

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1. Ruby, ROR, Ruby
   RestClient and GData API
   Arturo Contreras
   Web Developer @ AllPlayers.com
   @art_k5
   

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2. Ruby History and Purpose
   Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-
   oriented programming language that combines syntax
   inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also
   influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby was first designed and
   developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
   in Japan.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)
   At a Google Tech Talk in 2008 Matsumoto further stated,
   "I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to
   be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be
   happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language."
   

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3. Ruby Basics
   - basics (puts, etc..)
   - variables (@, @@, $, CONSTANTS)
   - methods (def)
   - classes (initialize, etc..)
   - Holding Spots in a String (puts
   "Hello #{@variable}"
   - Cycling and iteration (.each, etc..)
   

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4. ROR History
   - Application framework written in ruby.
   - David Heinemeier Hansson extracted Ruby on
   Rails from his work on Basecamp, a project
   management tool by 37signals in 2004.
   - In August 2006, Rails was released as part of
   mac 10.5 Leopard.
   - As of February 2012, it is estimated that over
   235,000 web sites are running Ruby on Rails
   

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5. Ruby on Rails principles
   - DRY
   - Convention over Configuration
   - REST is the best pattern for web
   applications
   

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6. Rails Setup
   - gem install rails
   - rails blog
   - rake db:create
   - script/server
   - script/generate controller
   home index
   

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7. LINKS
   1. Ruby in 20 minutes - http://www.ruby-
   lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
   2. ROR - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.8
   /getting_started.html
   3. https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client
   4. https://code.google.com/p/gdata-
   samples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/doclist
   /DocListManager
   

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8. QUESTIONS?
   

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