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Lotus RubyDay 2015
Luca Guidi
November 13, 2015
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Transcript
Lotus & The Future Of Ruby @jodosha / #lotusrb
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The future of Ruby
Will Ruby die?
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Programming Languages Rank 0% 0,75% 1,5% 2,25% 3% Ruby Erlang
Haskell Go Rust Elixir Clojure Source: TIOBE
Let’s imagine the future
The future is polyglot
Modern system languages are more developer friendly than C/C++
Maintenance costs for infrastructure will be less and less relevant
Ruby isn’t used anymore for components that require improved performances
Web applications will still use Ruby
Ruby is here to stay
Ruby is desperately trying to catch these new languages’ features,
but this is a mistake
“We can’t make promises” - Matz
We need to find a new sense of purpose for
Ruby
Ruby has to become the first-class solution for a well
defined set of problems
Let’s have a look at the present
Homebrew
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Thanks to a beautiful DSL, Homebrew has become a successful
project with ~4000 formulæ
ORMs
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Sonic Pi
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Thanks to its expressiveness, Ruby can build bridges that reach
complex systems
Docker uses raw BASH commands
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MRuby
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Let’s talk about humans
Like a natural language, a programming language is dead without
people using it
Kids creating music with Sonic PI Credit: sonic-pi.net
Kids playing with “Hello Ruby” Credit: helloruby.com
People learning Ruby & web development Credit: railsgirls.com
Ruby can be an entry point for life changing careers
I hope that the Ruby Community of the future will
be a safe place where everyone can feel welcome
We should improve Ruby ecosystem in order to attract experienced
engineers from other languages
Web
Why not Rails?
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Lotus Philosophy
Lightweight
Features as of v0.5.0 • Thread-safety • Full featured HTTP
router • RESTful resources • Actions and views as objects • Actions callbacks • Code sharing • Exception handling • Sessions • Secure Cookies • HTTP Caching • Automatic MIME Types • 20+ Template engines • Partials and layouts • Presenters • Routing helpers • Form helpers • HTML helpers • Automatic markup escape • CSRF and XSS prevention • Force SSL • Entities • Repositories • Data Mapper • SQL and Memory adapters • Dirty Tracking • Reusable validations • Mailers • Multiple environments • Static assets • JSON body parser • Params whitelisting and validation • Code generators • Rack servers support • Application console • Database console • Powerful CLI • Migrations • RSpec, Minitest and Capybara support • Several architectures • And more..
0 17,5 35 52,5 70 Ruby Rack Sinatra Lotus Rails
Dependencies Memory
On average, we use only a fraction of the features
that a gem provides.
Lotus depends on a few gems. You can be sure
that all the loaded code is useful for your application.
A complete framework
Lotus goes beyond “Flat-MVC” by providing a set of collaborators
for “Full-MVC”.
Future plans
Lotus::Assets • Helpers • Third Party Gems • Preprocessors •
Deployment
“Today’s good practices are HTTP/2 antipatterns” - Ilya Grigorik
Experimental HTTP/2 support
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GitHub: jodosha/panther jodosha/instants
http://lotusrb.org/hackday
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Q&A
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Thank you
Credits Ruby picture by Orbital Joe https://flic.kr/p/79UqQM