Why Ruby?

Slides for my Ruby landscape talk at Pretoria.rb - http://www.meetup.com/pretoria-rb/events/186593022

Transcript

1. puts "Hello PTA!" # Why Ruby?
2. whoami = { name: "Kenneth Kalmer", twitter: "@kennethkalmer", github: "kennethkalmer", blog: "opensourcery.co.za" } !
3. class History def when? 1995 end def where? "Japan" end def by? "Matz" end end !
4. [1] pry(main)> class History [1] pry(main)* [1] pry(main)* def when? [1] pry(main)* 1995 [1] pry(main)* end [1] pry(main)* [1] pry(main)* def where? [1] pry(main)* "Japan" [1] pry(main)* end [1] pry(main)* [1] pry(main)* def by? [1] pry(main)* "Matz" [1] pry(main)* end [1] pry(main)* [1] pry(main)* end => :by? [2] pry(main)> lesson = History.new => #<History:0x007fcdb306a3f0> [3] pry(main)> lesson.when? => 1995 [4] pry(main)> lesson.where? => "Japan" [5] pry(main)> lesson.by? => "Matz"
6. $ gem install pry Fetching: pry-0.10.0.gem (100%) Successfully installed pry-0.10.0 1 gem installed ! $ pry [1] pry(main)> 1 + 1 => 2
7. $ pry [1] pry(main)> 1.is_a?( Object ) && 1.is_a?( Fixnum ) => true ! [2] pry(main)> true.is_a?( Object ) && true.is_a?( TrueClass ) => true ! [3] pry(main)> nil.is_a?( Object ) && nil.is_a?( NilClass ) => true ! [4] pry(main)> "PTA".is_a?( Object ) && "PTA".is_a?( String ) => true
8. $ pry [1] pry(main)> 1.object_id == 1.object_id => true ! [2] pry(main)> "PTA".object_id == "PTA".object_id => false
9. $ pry [1] pry(main)> require 'nokogiri' => true ! [2] pry(main)> require 'open-uri' => true ! [3] pry(main)> doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ruby_(programming_language)")) => #(Document:0x3fe11d253454…) ! [4] pry(main)> paragraph = doc.search('//*[@id="mw-content-text"]/p[23]').text => "Matsumoto has said that Ruby is designed for…” ! [5] pry(main)> paragraph =~ /"([^"]*)/ => 194 ! [6] pry(main)> $1 => "I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language."
11. The Main Runtimes
12. The Interesting Runtimes
13. The Mobile Runtimes
15. required “reading” http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
16. 3,239,798,210 downloads of 77,207 gems cut since July 2009
17. require “*” • State of the art dependency management • Authors now building the same tool for the Rust programming language
18. require “sinatra” get "/" do "<h1>Hello PTA</h1>" end • Rack • Sinatra • Padrino • Rails
19. require “adhearsion” class MyController < Adhearsion::CallController def run answer resp = ask "How many woodchucks?", :limit => 1 say "You said #{resp}. That's obviously wrong!" end end ! # adhearsion.com
20. require “artoo” connection :sphero, adaptor: :sphero, port: '4560' device :sphero, driver: :sphero ! work do every(3.seconds) do puts "Rolling..." sphero.roll 60, rand(360) end end ! # artoo.io
22. require “relevance”
23. Tools of the trade
25. require “simple_form” simple_form_for @user do |f| = f.input :email = f.input :password = f.submit "Login" • Rapid form building • Highlight errors • Wrappers for Bootstrap
26. require “better_errors”
27. require “reform” class SongForm < Reform::Form property :title property :length ! validates :title, presence: true validates :length, numericality: true end ! class SongsController def new @form = SongForm.new(Song.new) end
28. require “active_interaction” • Model business processes as simple objects. • Avoid the callback hell that so easily happens in models
30. http://iwanttolearnruby.com/
31. trap("TERM") do puts "WIN" end ! exit