designed to put the productivity of the developer first ✤ Companies that want to iterate on product ideas quickly use RoR for their web applications ✤ Startup and Agile culture ✤ Vibrant community
running on Ruby on Rails, creating more need for developers ✤ The BIG Boys are doing it ✤ Twitter, Shopify, Scribd, Groupon, Basecamp, Crunchbase, AirBNB, Github, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Bloomberg, Hulu, Indiegogo, Amazon, BBC, Cisco, CNET, IBM, JP Morgan, NASA, Apple, Yahoo! and many more..
✤ “I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.” - Matz ✤ Eg. 1000000 can be written as 1_000_000
and used on separate computers / browsers ✤ Collection of static and dynamic web pages ✤ website vs web application ✤ static content vs user interaction ✤ simple html vs complex app/db backend ✤ eg. news website vs facebook feed ✤ web server and application server ✤ server side scripting / computation