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Hi, I’m Brooks

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I work for !

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We use Ruby

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and so can you

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What is it?

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Ruby is friendly

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Ruby is approachable

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require 'net/http' require 'json' uri = URI('https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp.json') response = Net::HTTP.get(uri) parsed_response = JSON.parse(response) posts = parsed_response['data']['children'] html = "" posts.each do |post| thumbnail = post['data']['thumbnail'] html << "" end File.write('cats_standing_up.html', html)

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What are its use cases?

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Automation

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The web (Rails)

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APIs

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Should it be my first language?

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Yes.

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Where does it shine?

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Readability

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Prototyping

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Where does it not?

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“at scale”* * Not really

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How can you get started?

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http://tryruby.org

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The Ruby style guide

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Thanks Follow me on twitter / github: @bswinnerton