Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Rails is Just Ruby
Search
Jesse Wolgamott
April 29, 2013
Programming
560
1
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Rails is Just Ruby
RailsConf 2013 - Intro Track
Jesse Wolgamott
April 29, 2013
More Decks by Jesse Wolgamott
See All by Jesse Wolgamott
React vs React-Native
jwo
0
160
What is an API
jwo
0
230
DIY Rails Authentication
jwo
0
250
ActionCable - For Not Another Chat App
jwo
3
1.8k
SlackBot.rb - Create You a Slack Bot
jwo
1
1.5k
react-rails: an isomorphic match made in heaven
jwo
0
1.4k
Docker - next big thing
jwo
0
1k
Ruby 2.1 Overview
jwo
0
1.1k
Rails 4: Appetizers
jwo
1
1.1k
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
PHP に部分適用が来るぞ!……ところで何それ?おいしいの? #phpcon / phpcon-2026
shogogg
0
660
Laravelで学ぶ Webアプリケーションチューニング入門/web_application_tuning_101
hanhan1978
4
1.8k
PostgreSQL 18で考えるUUID主キー
kazuhiro1982
0
470
言葉の格闘技のススメ~紙とペンと言葉から始める、キャリアの描き方~
progresscicada
2
150
Android CLI
fornewid
0
220
Built Our Own Background Agent at LayerX
layerx
PRO
10
5.5k
Google Apps Script で Ruby を動かす
kawahara
0
230
Building a Meta Ray-Ban display app
akkeylab
0
150
そこに3びきプロダクトがいるじゃろう——生成AI時代における“価値が届かない理由”の構造
kosuket
0
490
freee が目指す データ マネジメント戦略 AI-Ready 時代を支える 攻めのガバナンスとは
freee
PRO
0
370
170k Jobs a Day on GKE: Scaling Mercari's CI Platform - and What's Next for AI-Native Development
junyaokabe
0
110
Cloudflare is Agents
chimame
0
170
Featured
See All Featured
SEO Brein meetup: CTRL+C is not how to scale international SEO
lindahogenes
1
2.8k
Build The Right Thing And Hit Your Dates
maggiecrowley
39
3.4k
Why Mistakes Are the Best Teachers: Turning Failure into a Pathway for Growth
auna
0
200
Typedesign – Prime Four
hannesfritz
42
3.1k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
37
3.9k
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024 [PerfNow 2024]
tammyeverts
12
1.2k
How Fast Is Fast Enough? [PerfNow 2025]
tammyeverts
3
760
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
348
40k
Kristin Tynski - Automating Marketing Tasks With AI
techseoconnect
PRO
0
470
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
240
Stop Working from a Prison Cell
hatefulcrawdad
274
21k
sira's awesome portfolio website redesign presentation
elsirapls
0
320
Transcript
Ruby is Just Rails A Guide to Procrastination and Happiness
Stu Rails makes insanely easy Seemingly Magical
Protect entire system from unauthorized requests Seemingly Magical
Log every page load Seemingly Magical
Update full-text search engine every time a record is added
Seemingly Magical
it’s not magic Magic It’s not magic (maybe at first)
http:/ /lotr.wikia.com/wiki/File:Gandalf-2.jpg
http:/ /www.ibeta.eu/blog/darth-vader-on-tedxeutropolis/
Wizard Like Powers Business People consider us wizards with our
ability to create business value
Rails Helps us Along Rails helps us along
Rails Helps us Along Blocks
Rails Helps us Along Before Filters
Rails Helps us Along Callbacks
Rails Helps us Along Inheritance
Rails Helps us Along It all starts with a block
The Block
10.times do puts "YOLO" end
None
@users.each do |user| <%= user.email %> end
User.create do |u| u.name = 'jwo' end
@users.map {|u| u.total_due }.sum
Rails Helps us Along code that gets delayed and executed
later
Block Rules Every Ruby method can receive a block
Block Rules The method has to yield to the block
to be e ective
Block Rules Can take parameters and won’t scream if you
send in too few
args.each do |key,value| end
Advanced Blocks Advanced Block Tips
Block Rules Don’t use ‘return’ in a block
Block Rules Use Ruby’s implicit returns instead
Advanced Blocks Add retries for volatile actions
10.times.retry do SomeNetworkCommunicationThingyHere.new end https://github.com/schneems/rrrretry
Before Filters
Before Filters Used in Controllers
Before Filters Rails actions are your interactions with users (get/post
data)
Before Filters Can be before or after
Before Filters If your before filter returns, or redirects the
action won’t happen
before_filter do |controller| unless controller.send(:logged_in?) redirect_to new_login_url end end
class ApplicationController before_filter :authenticate_user def authenticate_user unless logged_in? redirect_to new_login_url
end end end
class PostsController < AppController # already secured end
class PublicPostsController < AppController skip_before_filter :authenticate_user end
Callbacks
About Callbacks Code you can define to run later works
in Models too
About Callbacks It’s like HollaBack, but not
Callback Example Stack Overflow Example: Downcasing email
class User < ActiveRecord::Base before_validation do |user| user.email = user.email.downcase
end end
Callback Example Real World Example: Full Text Searching (websolr)
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base searchable do text :title, :body end
end https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot
Post.search do fulltext 'best pizza' end https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot
after_destroy do |searchable| searchable.remove_from_index end https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot/blob/master/ sunspot_rails/lib/sunspot/rails/searchable.rb
Workshop Time
Workshop Create a beeper alert program
Workshop Criteria if alarm is critical, send SMS
Workshop Criteria if alarm is warning, send email
I’m JWo Thanks! @jwo Jesse Wolgamott.com