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The Road To Code: Ruby

Avatar for Brooks Swinnerton Brooks Swinnerton
May 25, 2016
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The Road To Code: Ruby

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Brooks Swinnerton

May 25, 2016

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Transcript

  1. None

  2. Hi, I’m Brooks

  3. I work for !

  4. We use Ruby

  5. and so can you

  6. What is it?

  7. Ruby is friendly

  8. Ruby is approachable

  9. require 'net/http' require 'json' uri = URI('https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp.json') response = Net::HTTP.get(uri)

    parsed_response = JSON.parse(response) posts = parsed_response['data']['children'] html = "" posts.each do |post| thumbnail = post['data']['thumbnail'] html << "<img src='#{thumbnail}' />" end File.write('cats_standing_up.html', html)
  10. None

  11. What are its use cases?

  12. Automation

  13. The web (Rails)

  14. APIs

  15. Should it be my first language?

  16. Yes.

  17. Where does it shine?

  18. Readability

  19. Prototyping

  20. Where does it not?

  21. “at scale”* * Not really

  22. How can you get started?

  23. http://tryruby.org

  24. The Ruby style guide

  25. Thanks Follow me on twitter / github: @bswinnerton