Slides from the first Hull Digital Developer meet up and talk.

1. The Ruby on Rails Ecosystem
by Andrew Chalkley
@chalkers

2. Intro
• RIA Lead at Cake Solutions - www.cakesolutions.net
• RIA Community Leader at Skills Matter - www.skillsmatter.com
• Teach the Core Ruby on Rails at Skills Matter

3. Ruby

4. Conceived
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto

5. “I wanted a scripting language that was more
powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented
than Python. That's why I decided to design
my own language.”

6. “The Pickaxe Book”

7. Ruby on Rails
The Rails Logo was created by Kevin Milden and is distributed under the BY-ND Creative Commons Licence.

8. Ruby on Rails

9. Ruby on Rails
• Full Stack Web Framework

10. Ruby on Rails
• Full Stack Web Framework
• Rapid Website Development

11. Ruby on Rails
• Full Stack Web Framework
• Rapid Website Development
• CRUD

12. Ruby on Rails
• Full Stack Web Framework
• Rapid Website Development
• CRUD
• Everybody Followed

13. Criticisms

14. Criticisms
• Not Framework

15. Criticisms
• Not Framework
• Not Language

16. Criticisms
• Not Framework
• Not Language
• Implementation

17. Ruby Virtual Machines

18. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x

19. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x

20. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x

21. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x
• MacRuby (0.5 beta)1.9.x

22. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x • IronRuby (RC1) 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x
• MacRuby (0.5 beta)1.9.x

23. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x • IronRuby (RC1) 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x • MagLev (Alpha) 1.8.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x
• MacRuby (0.5 beta)1.9.x

24. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x • IronRuby (RC1) 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x • MagLev (Alpha) 1.8.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x • HotRuby
• MacRuby (0.5 beta)1.9.x

25. Ruby Virtual Machines
• MRI 1.8.x • IronRuby (RC1) 1.8.x
• YRI/YARV 1.9.x • MagLev (Alpha) 1.8.x
• JRuby (1.4) Full1.8.x - Partial 1.9.x • HotRuby
• MacRuby (0.5 beta)1.9.x • RubyJS

26. Ruby is easy to deploy

27. Ruby is easy to deploy
• Apache - Phusion Passenger mod_rails/mod_rack

28. Ruby is easy to deploy
• Apache - Phusion Passenger mod_rails/mod_rack
• Heroku - scalable git deployment on EC2

29. Ruby is easy to deploy
• Apache - Phusion Passenger mod_rails/mod_rack
• Heroku - scalable git deployment on EC2
• Google AppEngine

30. Ruby is easy to deploy
• Apache - Phusion Passenger mod_rails/mod_rack
• Heroku - scalable git deployment on EC2
• Google AppEngine
• Your Favourite Java App Server

31. http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts
http://railscasts.com/
http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
Podcasts : RailsEnvy & Ruby5

32. Demo

33. Questions?
@chalkers