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Life Outside Rails

Life Outside Rails

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

Stephen McCullough

May 06, 2014
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  1. LIFE OUTSIDE
    RAILS
    Created by /
    Stephen McCullough @swmcc

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  2. NOT ANTI RAILS
    This isn't an anti rails talk. I just think there is more to Ruby
    than just rails.

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  3. WHAT COMES TO MIND
    THEN?

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  4. SINATRA

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  5. PADRINO

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  6. JEKYLL

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  7. GRAPE

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  8. CUBA

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  9. CAMPING

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  10. WHAT, NO FRAMEWORKS?

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  11. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT...
    You don't have to use a fecking framework!

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  12. WHAT I USE RUBY FOR
    CSV Parser
    Task management
    Static Generator
    ActiveRecord
    Building libs for a legacy system

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

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  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

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

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  16. THE END
    BY STEPHEN MCCULLOUGH / SWM.CC

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