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Konstantin Haase
November 28, 2012
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Ruby, where are you heading?
My slides from Future Of Web Apps 2012.
Konstantin Haase
November 28, 2012
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Transcript
Ruby, where are you heading? Future Of Web Apps 2012
Konstantin Haase Full Time Open Source Developer github.com/rkh @konstantinhaase
Travis CI, Sinatra Rack, Rubinius, Tilt, ...
I’ve got 99 slides and a meme aint one of
them.
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tiobe.com
1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert
some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson.
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you are here
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Why are we talking about this? Gimme some Go, Clojure
or maybe Erlang
Ruby is here to stay
Ruby is an excellent choice
There is a lot of Ruby to pick from
RubyMotion
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It’s like Smalltalk. Except it’s not.
General Purpose
Fully Object Oriented
Dynamically Typed
Strongly Typed
Mature
Low Entry Barrier
Amazing Community
Konstantin Haase Full Time Open Source Developer github.com/rkh @konstantinhaase
Ruby is driving innovation
Ruby
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Ruby On Rails
“Look at all the things I’m not doing!”
M V C
M V C Client Database
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Convention Over Configuration
Do Not Repeat Yourself
Code Generation
Asset Pipeline
There’s a plugin for that
Security This is a big thing!
Sinatra
Not A Framework. An HTTP library.
Cuts away Boilerplate
Bend at Will Apple’s Podcast Library Added to LinkedIn (Java
app!)
Security Still a big thing!
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https://chat.travis-ci.org
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Rack
Powers Rails, Sinatra, etc.
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The simplest thing possible™
So, where are we heading?
Rack successor
What’s wrong with Rack?
Rack is easy for app developers
Rack is not meant for app developers
Asynchronous Streaming
Recursive Stack
No Reflection
Rack 2.0
Ponies
Sinatra 2.0
Rails 4.0
More concurrency!
Built-in support for Server Sent Events
Built-in Background Jobs
Rails API
A Multiverse Of Rubies
RubyMotion
JRuby is Production Ready
Rubinius 2.0
Ruby 2.0
Better Performance COW-friendly GC Tail-Call Recursion
Refinements
Module#prepend
Keyword Arguments
ABI compatible with 1.9.3
mruby Embeddable Ruby
Conclusion Give Ruby a try!
Thank you!
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