Life Outside Rails

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

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