Learn Ruby for Good

Ramallah, Oct 12, 2013

This presentation is an inspiring introduction to Ruby. Tools and ideas that came from the Ruby community.

I dropped some slides about designing DSLs and a little bit about meta programming — the audience had too little experience with Ruby.

Transcript

1. Learn Ruby for Good! TechCon #2 • Ramallah • October 12, 2013 Amr Tamimi • @amrnt
2. I’m not going to learn you coding
3. I’m going to let Ruby
4. inspire you
5. as others had inspired
7. what’s Ruby?
8. Ruby != Rails
9. a programming language Created by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in mid 1990s
10. oo, interpreted, dynamic
11. everything is an object
12. why Ruby?
13. free and open source
14. easy and friendly to use
15. awesome people and community
17. Gorby Thunderhorse @gorbypuff source: @gorbypuff
18. #fridayhug
19. whole new tools and ideas
20. Ruby is for everybody— even for children!
21. hackety-hack.com kidsruby.com
23. Rubies MRI • JRuby • IronRuby • Rubinius • REE • mRuby • ...
24. Versions 1.8 • 1.9 • 2.0
25. Managing Ruby Versions RVM • rbenv • chruby • ...
26. we inspire Python PyEnv • virtualenv • python_select • ... PHP phpfarm • phpenv • ...
27. RubyGems thousands of ruby programs and libraries
28. The Ruby Toolbox makes it easy to explore open source Ruby projects ruby-toolbox.com
29. The Problem w/ RubyGems? “which gem should I use?”
31. Rails
32. we inspire Scala playframework.com PHP cakephp.org Java grails.org Node sailsjs.org .NET ASP.NET MVC 3.0
33. Sinatra
34. we inspire Go dbrain/soggy Scala scalatra/scalatra Python mitsuhiko/flask PHP codeguy/Slim Haskell xich/scotty Java perwendel/spark Node visionmedia/express
36. Great tools built on Ruby
43. and more to come...
44. fin