The Road To Code: Ruby

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2. Hi, I’m Brooks
3. I work for !
4. We use Ruby
5. and so can you
6. What is it?
7. Ruby is friendly
8. Ruby is approachable
9. require 'net/http' require 'json' uri = URI('https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp.json') response = Net::HTTP.get(uri) parsed_response = JSON.parse(response) posts = parsed_response['data']['children'] html = "" posts.each do |post| thumbnail = post['data']['thumbnail'] html << "<img src='#{thumbnail}' />" end File.write('cats_standing_up.html', html)
11. What are its use cases?
12. Automation
13. The web (Rails)
14. APIs
15. Should it be my first language?
16. Yes.
17. Where does it shine?
18. Readability
19. Prototyping
20. Where does it not?
21. “at scale”* * Not really
22. How can you get started?
23. http://tryruby.org
24. The Ruby style guide
25. Thanks Follow me on twitter / github: @bswinnerton