Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up
for free
Why Ruby
Jason Ong
March 11, 2012
Education
1
330
Why Ruby
Presented in 2011 at NUS Hackers Ruby tournament
Jason Ong
March 11, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Jason Ong
See All by Jason Ong
jasonong
0
80
jasonong
0
64
jasonong
0
180
Other Decks in Education
See All in Education
birdhiro
0
240
signer
0
310
ceejeanpiaget
0
380
signer
0
330
ericpizzi
0
240
ttak0422
0
390
learnenergy2
0
140
kaityo256
6
3.1k
agonagasukujira
0
150
signer
0
240
learnenergy
0
230
storciety
0
430
Featured
See All Featured
hannesfritz
27
930
mthomps
39
2.3k
stephaniewalter
260
11k
lynnandtonic
270
16k
malarkey
119
16k
ddemaree
274
31k
destraynor
146
19k
samlambert
237
9.9k
smashingmag
283
47k
rmw
11
740
marcelosomers
220
15k
skipperchong
7
660
Transcript
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong _Why Ruby? “So,
what makes Ruby so cool?” Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong People “Two turkeys
don’t become an eagle” Saturday, February 12, 2011
A picture > 1000 words... Saturday, February 12, 2011
A picture > 1000 words... Saturday, February 12, 2011
Picture > 10,000 words... Saturday, February 12, 2011
Not forgetting... Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong Passion “Because you’re
worth it” Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Saturday, February 12,
2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Work for startups
that wanna change the world Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Work for startups
that wanna change the world Care about code quality Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Work for startups
that wanna change the world Care about code quality Care about helping others achieve code quality Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Work for startups
that wanna change the world Care about code quality Care about helping others achieve code quality Be sociable Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Wanna change the world Work for startups
that wanna change the world Care about code quality Care about helping others achieve code quality Be sociable Be good musicians Saturday, February 12, 2011
Rubyists tends to... Live happily ever after... Saturday, February 12,
2011
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong Practices “Cuts like
a samurai” Saturday, February 12, 2011
Buzzwords... Agile REST TDD BDD Pairing Saturday, February 12, 2011
More Buzzwords... NoSQL MongoDB Redis Node.js Juggernaut Saturday, February 12,
2011
Even libraries are cool... Cucumber Factory girl Devise Cancan Timecop
Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong Productive “Rolling up
your sleeves” Saturday, February 12, 2011
This... if(myVariable != null){ //handle it }else{ throw
new InvalidOperationException ("Hey dude! Where's My Variable Assignment!") } Saturday, February 12, 2011
Or this... raise "Hey dude! Where's My Variable Assignment"
if my_variable.nil? Saturday, February 12, 2011
What about... unless(my_variable.nil?) #do whatever end Saturday, February 12,
2011
Packaged libraries gem install my_awesome_ruby_lib Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Five P’s of Ruby - @jasonong Pay “Show me
the money!” Saturday, February 12, 2011
*Kar-ching* We’re hiring Saturday, February 12, 2011
*Kar-ching* We’re hiring Huge demand in the valley Saturday, February
12, 2011
*Kar-ching* We’re hiring Huge demand in the valley Europe, Australia
& more! Saturday, February 12, 2011
*Kar-ching* Question: Who drives a Pagani Zonda HH? Saturday, February
12, 2011
*Kar-ching* Saturday, February 12, 2011
*Kar-ching* Answer: David Heinemeier Hansen. Creator of Ruby on Rails.
Largely responsible for the popularity of Rails. Saturday, February 12, 2011
Summary People Passionate Practices Productive Pay Saturday, February 12, 2011
Summary People who are Passionate about good Practices and know
how to be Productive gets excellent Pay Saturday, February 12, 2011
RedDotRubyConf 22nd/23rd April 2011 Matz (Ruby creator), Dave (PragProg), Chad
(RubyCentral), Tom (Github) & many more! Regional folks Food + drinks + fun = Geek party Special student price ~ $100 Saturday, February 12, 2011
To learn more... Singapore Ruby Brigade Ruby Mendicant University Railscasts
Saturday, February 12, 2011