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)
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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