Intro to Ruby

A kickoff simple intro for our first RubyMeetup Group in Bogota.

Transcript

1. Intro to Ruby and Ruby on Rails Juanda
2. @juanzuluaga juanda@wehostels.com YO github.com/juandazapata
3. what is ruby? Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
4. Japan, 1995 functional object oriented imperative (statements) reflective (runtime) dynamic typing automatic memory management Image: marcveraart (vía flickr)
5. I wanted a programming language more powerful than Perl and more object oriented than python “ ”
6. timeline and milestones Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
7. 1995 – ruby 1.0 2003 – ruby 1.8 2005 – RubyOnRails 2007 – ruby 1.9 2013 – ruby 2.0 Image: helloeveryone123 (vía flickr)
8. ruby implementations Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
9. MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter) Rubinous JRuby MRI JRuby (java) IronRuby (.NET) rubinius (ruby) Imagen: Aristocrat-hat (vía flickr)
10. top ruby frameworks Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
11. •  RubyOnRails •  rubymotion •  mac ruby top frameworks
12. showcase Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
13. soundcloud famous ruby/rails apps •  soundcloud •  twitter •  justintv •  hulu •  shopify •  groupon •  github •  jango radio •  yellow pages •  airbnb •  campfire Image: nmeyerhans
14. MYTH deployment is a pain in the ass Image: Trinity (vía flickr)
15. Image: Heroku.com
16. MYTH ruby/rails doesn’t scale Imagen: Trinity (vía flickr)
17. That’s true! But PHP, C, Perl, Python, Java, etc… They don’t scale either!
18. You can’t scale a language/framework You scale an application
19. focused in the developer, not in the machines Imagen: Gary Robson (vía flickr)
20. Image: stevendepolo (vIa flickr)
21. Image: alexanderdrachmann(vIa flickr)