Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Sign up for free
Menu
Search
Features
All features
Private URLs
Password Protection
Custom URLS
Scheduled publishing
Remove Branding
Restrict embedding
Deck Collections
Notes
Explore
Featured decks
Featured speakers
Programming
Technology
Storyboards
Pricing
Search
Sign in
Sign up for free
Ruby, where are you heading?
Search
Konstantin Haase
November 28, 2012
Technology
840
4
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Ruby, where are you heading?
My slides from Future Of Web Apps 2012.
Konstantin Haase
November 28, 2012
More Decks by Konstantin Haase
See All by Konstantin Haase
RubyConf Philippines 2017: Magenta is a Lie
rkh
0
240
How We Replaced Salary Negotiations with a Sinatra App
rkh
17
4.3k
HTTP (RubyMonsters Edition)
rkh
5
1.2k
GCRC 2015: Abstract Thoughts on Abstract Things
rkh
1
400
Frozen Rails: Magenta - The Art Of Abstraction
rkh
3
350
RedDotRubyConf 2014: Magenta is a Lie - and other tales of abstraction
rkh
0
1k
Ancient City Ruby: Hack me, if you can!
rkh
2
480
Boston I/O: Continuous Integration
rkh
3
350
Steel City Ruby: Architecting Chaos
rkh
4
1k
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
Claude Code本って、 読む必要あるの?
oikon48
1
190
Snowflakeで実現する全社横断の顧客の声(VOC)分析・活用基盤@Snowflake World Tour Tokyo 2026
yuto16
0
120
Azure Cost Management の FOCUS コストデータを迷わず読むための“3つの軸”
tetsuyaooooo
0
160
Bet AI Day 2026丨Agentは、「金融」という巨大産業の何を変えられるのか
layerx
PRO
0
1.2k
アリアドネの糸と、20年ごとの建て替え ── 長尾真『電子図書館』を、伊勢で読み直す / Rereading Makoto Nagao’s "Electronic Library" in Ise
ykiyota
0
120
Amazon Quick on DesktopがIAM Identity Centerで動かない理由
yukiogawa
0
120
作品が生態系になった ─ Mini Tokyo 3D から世界へ
nagix
0
140
Microsoft 365 Copilot chat -tekoälypalvelun tietosuojaongelmat
hponka
0
560
プロダクトエンジニアに必要な「いい感じ」に作る能力 〜たくさん作れる時代に、どこまで作るかの決め方〜
jnishime_dresscode
2
1.4k
KPIだけでは評価できないプロダクトが考えるべき Evalsという第二の評価系 / Beyond KPIs: Evals as a Second Evaluation Framework for Products #PdEConf
aki_iinuma
4
3.8k
なぜSRE・セキュリティは評価されないのか?守りの組織を事業成長エンジンに変えた実践
cscengineer
PRO
3
2.4k
2026-09-04 SRE Tech Talk #15 怠惰なTerraform / Lazy Terraform
masasuzu
0
230
Featured
See All Featured
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
275
41k
Abbi's Birthday
coloredviolet
3
9.8k
Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text
inesmontani
PRO
4
3k
Pawsitive SEO: Lessons from My Dog (and Many Mistakes) on Thriving as a Consultant in the Age of AI
davidcarrasco
0
240
Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ Websites
charlesmeaden
PRO
1
1.6k
Typedesign – Prime Four
hannesfritz
42
3.2k
The browser strikes back
jonoalderson
0
1.6k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
59
7k
Making Projects Easy
brettharned
120
6.7k
Fashionably flexible responsive web design (full day workshop)
malarkey
408
67k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
37
3.9k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
31
2.9k
Transcript
Ruby, where are you heading? Future Of Web Apps 2012
Konstantin Haase Full Time Open Source Developer github.com/rkh @konstantinhaase
Travis CI, Sinatra Rack, Rubinius, Tilt, ...
I’ve got 99 slides and a meme aint one of
them.
None
tiobe.com
1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert
some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson.
·ͭͱΏ͖ͻΖ
you are here
None
Why are we talking about this? Gimme some Go, Clojure
or maybe Erlang
Ruby is here to stay
Ruby is an excellent choice
There is a lot of Ruby to pick from
RubyMotion
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
It’s like Smalltalk. Except it’s not.
General Purpose
Fully Object Oriented
Dynamically Typed
Strongly Typed
Mature
Low Entry Barrier
Amazing Community
Konstantin Haase Full Time Open Source Developer github.com/rkh @konstantinhaase
Ruby is driving innovation
Ruby
None
None
None
None
None
Ruby On Rails
“Look at all the things I’m not doing!”
M V C
M V C Client Database
None
Convention Over Configuration
Do Not Repeat Yourself
Code Generation
Asset Pipeline
There’s a plugin for that
Security This is a big thing!
Sinatra
Not A Framework. An HTTP library.
Cuts away Boilerplate
Bend at Will Apple’s Podcast Library Added to LinkedIn (Java
app!)
Security Still a big thing!
None
None
None
None
None
https://chat.travis-ci.org
None
Rack
Powers Rails, Sinatra, etc.
None
None
None
None
None
The simplest thing possible™
So, where are we heading?
Rack successor
What’s wrong with Rack?
Rack is easy for app developers
Rack is not meant for app developers
Asynchronous Streaming
Recursive Stack
No Reflection
Rack 2.0
Ponies
Sinatra 2.0
Rails 4.0
More concurrency!
Built-in support for Server Sent Events
Built-in Background Jobs
Rails API
A Multiverse Of Rubies
RubyMotion
JRuby is Production Ready
Rubinius 2.0
Ruby 2.0
Better Performance COW-friendly GC Tail-Call Recursion
Refinements
Module#prepend
Keyword Arguments
ABI compatible with 1.9.3
mruby Embeddable Ruby
Conclusion Give Ruby a try!
Thank you!
“Second to K&R, the most lagom technical book I’ve read.”
Peter Cooper (Ruby Inside) Discount Code: AUTHD 50% off ebook ($6.50) 40% off print