Ruby: A Wonderfully
Diverse Ecosystem
Oulu 2013
Adam Hawkins
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Tervetuloa!
• Mina olen Adam
• Lived in Helsinki between 2010 and 2011
• Total Ruby Nerd
• Finland FTW (even though I live in Sweden)
• Passionate about FOSS & Ruby
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kolmekymmentäkaksimiljoonaa!
viisisataakolmekymmentäneljätuhatta !
seitsemänsataaviisikymmentäkuus
Zomg, Snow!
- About a million C
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Ruby Itself
• Conceived my Yahkiro “Matz” Matsumoto in the
early 90s
• Über success via Ruby on Rails & DHH
• Powers Github (arguably most influential website
in the past 5 years)
• Has something for everyone
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Easy to Start
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Gem Facts
• 2,231,826,065 gem downloads
• 65,023 total gems
• 28,790,750 downloads for Rails
• 11,266,979 for RSpec
• 9,954,759 for Sinatra
Ruby Gems vs Finland
• Everyone in Helsinki would need to download 4
gems at once
• There are probably more lakes in Finland than
there testing gems
• Twice as many residents in Oulu then that are
Ruby Gems
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There’s a Gem for That
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Web Sites & Web
Applications
• Rails - Web Applications
• Sinatra - General purpose web interface
• Rack - Low Level
• Jekyll - Static Site Generator
Databases & ORM
• ActiveRecord
• Sequel
• ROM: Ruby Object Mapper
• Redis, Mongo, Couchbase, Riak, Firebase, and
pretty much anything you can think of
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If choosing a gem is hard,
wait until you choose your
Ruby interpreter.
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We have multiple
interpreters
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There’s a Ruby for that
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Now a personal story about how Ruby changed my life
By moving me from San Francisco, CA to Helsinki, Finland
And opening my life up to so many new possibilities
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Ruby is International
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People Make the
Places
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The Ruby Rogues
Chuck James
Avdi
Josh Katrina
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Random Fun Guys
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Aaron Patterson
@tenderlove
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_why?
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Linda Luikas
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My point is, that the Ruby
community as something
for everyone