Ruby - Behind the Scenes

A whirlwind tour of Ruby projects, off the Rails.

There is more to Ruby than Rails and there is nothing wrong with Rails, we’re just pretending it doesn’t exist for the next 25 minutes...

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1. Ruby - Behind the scenes A whirlwind tour of Ruby projects, off the Rails
2. Kenneth Kalmer CTO - Internet Exchange opensourcery.co.za @kennethkalmer github.com/kennethkalmer
3. There is more to Ruby than Rails and there is nothing wrong with Rails, we’re just pretending it doesn’t exist for the next 25 minutes...
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/5170454747/sizes/z/in/photostream/
5. Brace yourselves This is going to be a quick overview of a bunch of Ruby projects, old and new, each with their own merits and applicability, and each worth a whole presentation on their own, well, probably...
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/301906536/sizes/z/in/photostream/
7. ruby-collectd Send collectd stats from your Ruby app Graph whatever data you want astro/ruby-collectd [GH] collectd.org
8. agent Attempt at GO-like concurrency in Ruby “Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.” igrigorik/agent [GH]
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweet_vengeance/4567219829/sizes/z/in/photostream/
10. Hackety Hack! Teaching kids to program Uses the shoes GUI toolkit hackety-hack.com shoesrb.com
11. rufus-scheduler Like having cron embedded in your Ruby VM Powerful scheduling DSL Great error handling Leveraged by ruote & daemon-kit jmettraux/rufus-scheduler [GH]
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulm/2994482/sizes/z/in/photostream/
13. chef Complete server deployment & configuration management Wildly successful Total infrastructure management/insight opscode/chef [GH] opscode.com
14. ruby-pdns Use Ruby to serve as a backend to PowerDNS Different responses for different countries Randomize responses ripienaar/ruby-pdns [GH]
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixiez/3063441058/sizes/z/in/photostream/
16. ruote Pure Ruby workflow engine Descriptively define business processes Execute workflows reliably on an international scale jmettraux/ruote [GH] ruote.rubyforge.org
17. Kids Ruby “Hack your homework” Hackety Hack inspired Helping drive Ruby adoption hybridgroup/kidsruby [GH] www.kidsruby.com (via @JEG2)
18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14652282@N04/4993757183/sizes/z/in/photostream/
19. Homebrew Awesome *nix package management for OSX Uses Ruby “formulae” to drive compilation/ installation via a simple DSL mxcl/homebrew [GH]
20. Nanite Self-assembling fabric of Ruby daemons Scalable message queueing backend Self discovery Dynamic load balancing ezmobius/nanite [GH]
21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sepblog/3649959327/sizes/m/in/photostream/
22. Sourcify A solution to extract the code of a Proc, allowing the Proc to be serialized and passed around ngty/sourcify [GH]
23. postgresql-plruby PL/Ruby enables PostgreSQL to leverage Ruby for functions and trigger procedures knu/postgresql-plruby [GH]
24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanskainz/4122114599/sizes/z/in/photostream/
25. Haunted House Client for the ISY-99i home automation controller API Keep the lights on, or off, with Ruby! JEG2/haunted_house [GH]
26. rtunnel Can’t use “ssh -R”, rtunnel can setup reverse tunnels for you Leverages net-ssh & thin coderrr/rtunnel [GH]
27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertogg/2915383885/sizes/z/in/photostream/
28. blather Awesome XMPP client library built on top of EventMachine and Nokogiri Used by daemon-kit to write simple XMPP daemons sprsquish/blather [GH]
29. open4 open child process with handles on pid, stdin, stdout, and stderr manage child processes and their io handles easily. Useful for driving low-level *nix utils through Ruby ahoward/open4 [GH]
30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/3086398461/sizes/z/in/photostream/
31. Rubygame Cross-platform multimedia library Entertainment software Scientific visualizations Educational/training tools Interactive motion graphics rubygame.org
32. UPnP-MediaServer Serve media files to your PS3 using Ruby Work in progress seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ UPnP-MediaServer/
33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/picsbycam/4818638496/sizes/z/in/photostream/
34. parslet A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion. Good error reporting (unlike Treetop) No code generation, easier debug kschiess/parslet [GH]
35. daemon-kit Build reliable, stable daemonized applications with Ruby Helpers get you going fast kennethkalmer/daemon-kit [GH]
36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/helmutoelkers/1106183458/sizes/z/in/photostream/
37. Inspired? This is a taster, and by no means authoritative. Ruby is an awesome language, and a vibrant community, and works just as well off the Rails than on it.
38. What is your next project going to be?