Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Life Outside Rails

Avatar for Stephen McCullough Stephen McCullough
May 06, 2014
Programming
0
620

Life Outside Rails

A very quick talk I gave to the Belfast Ruby Group on the 6th May 2014. Life outside Rails.

Avatar for Stephen McCullough

Stephen McCullough

May 06, 2014
Tweet

More Decks by Stephen McCullough

See All by Stephen McCullough
Python and neo4j - fuck the jvm
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
240
Falling in ❤️ with JavaScript
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
0
65
Extending the django girls tutorial
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
100
Keeping your skills sharp in an ever changing industry
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
0
510
Django V Rails
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
110
Python.. Ruby.. Now Elixir? - Hipsters Assemble
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
0
460
factory_boy & behave
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
650
Tmux Lightning Talk @belfastruby
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
1k
A brief intro to Neo4j using 'The Wire' as a data set.
Avatar for Stephen McCullough swmcc
1
1.3k

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
AsyncSequenceとAsyncStreamのプロポーザルを全部読む！！
Avatar for Shigure Shimotori s_shimotori
1
190
iOSでSVG画像を扱う
Avatar for Kishikawa Katsumi kishikawakatsumi
0
180
モテるデスク環境
Avatar for mozumasu mozumasu
3
1.4k
CSC305 Lecture 10
Avatar for Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez javiergs
PRO
0
330
alien-signals と自作 OSS で実現する フレームワーク非依存な ロジック共通化の探求 / Exploring Framework-Agnostic Logic Sharing with alien-signals and Custom OSS
Avatar for aose aoseyuu
3
4.9k
AI 駆動開発におけるコミュニティと AWS CDK の価値
Avatar for Kenji Kono konokenj
5
300
Introducing RemoteCompose: break your UI out of the app sandbox.
Avatar for Nicolas Roard camaelon
2
260
TFLintカスタムプラグインで始める Terraformコード品質管理
Avatar for bells17 bells17
2
500
Designing Repeatable Edits: The Architecture of . in Vim
Avatar for Satoru Kitaguchi satorunooshie
0
200
Kotlinで実装するCPU/GPU 「協調的」パフォーマンス管理
Avatar for matuyuhi matuyuhi
0
110
なんでRustの環境構築してないのにRust製のツールが動くの？ / Why Do Rust-Based Tools Run Without a Rust Environment?
Avatar for TOMIKAWA Sotaro ssssota
14
47k
Google Opalで使える37のライブラリ
Avatar for MIKIO KUBO mickey_kubo
3
180

Featured

See All Featured
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
Avatar for Swwweet swwweet
225
10k
How Fast Is Fast Enough? [PerfNow 2025]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
2
210
Building Flexible Design Systems
Avatar for Yesenia Perez-Cruz yeseniaperezcruz
329
39k
4 Signs Your Business is Dying
Avatar for Josh Pigford shpigford
186
22k
A better future with KSS
Avatar for Kyle Neath kneath
239
18k
Easily Structure & Communicate Ideas using Wireframe
Avatar for Afnizar Nur Ghifari afnizarnur
194
16k
Understanding Cognitive Biases in Performance Measurement
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
31
2.7k
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
697
190k
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
Avatar for Product Marketing Alliance productmarketing
PRO
24
3.7k
Stop Working from a Prison Cell
Avatar for Chris Michel hatefulcrawdad
272
21k
The Psychology of Web Performance [Beyond Tellerrand 2023]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
49
3.1k
Unsuck your backbone
Avatar for Amy Palamountain ammeep
671
58k

Transcript

  1. LIFE OUTSIDE RAILS Created by / Stephen McCullough @swmcc

  2. NOT ANTI RAILS This isn't an anti rails talk. I

    just think there is more to Ruby than just rails.

  3. WHAT COMES TO MIND THEN?

  4. SINATRA

  5. PADRINO

  6. JEKYLL

  7. GRAPE

  8. CUBA

  9. CAMPING

  10. WHAT, NO FRAMEWORKS?

  11. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT... You don't have to

    use a fecking framework!

  12. WHAT I USE RUBY FOR CSV Parser Task management Static

    Generator ActiveRecord Building libs for a legacy system

  13. I ALSO USE RUBY FOR... Prototyping (jekyll) API Creation (grape)

    Sys Admin scripts

  14. I ONLY USE RAILS When I have a clear defention

    of success My other team members are happy with the choice Convention over configuration makes sense New code base

  15. IS THERE MUCH SENSE IN NOT USING RAILS? No (simples)

  16. THE END BY STEPHEN MCCULLOUGH / SWM.CC