Slides from my session at Lanka Ruby User Group meetup (28th Oct 2009). I talked about why Ruby is much more than just Rails and web applications.

1. Ruby
Beyond
Rails
Lanka Ruby User Group
28 October 2009
Gaveen Prabhasara
http://gaveen.owain.org

2. Ruby beyond Rails

3. 1993
Matz
(Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Creates Ruby
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4. Late 90s
Ruby gets
Recognition outside
Japan
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5. 2004
DHH
(David Heinemeier
Hansson) Creates
Ruby on Rails
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6. Then
Ruby becomes mainstream
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7. Now
Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term
for Ruby on Rails
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8. Now
Everybody think Ruby is the shorten term
for Ruby on Rails
And Everything is Fine! :)
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9. Ruby beyond Rails

10. Ruby is a
Web programming language, right?
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11. No!
(And sort of Yes)
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12. What else can Ruby Do?
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13. Quite a lot actually
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14. “a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on
simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural
to read and easy to write.”
- Ruby Official Website
"a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming
language...
- Wikipedia
http://www.ruby-lang.org/
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15. has many implementations
MRI/YARV, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby,
MagLev, Blue Ruby, MacRuby, HotRuby,
tinyrb, etc.
Which means Ruby is available on many
Software platforms
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16. can run in many environments
Linux, Windows, MacOS X, SymbianOS,
Common Unix variants, etc.
Which means Ruby is available on many
Operating Systems
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17. Among other things,
Good string processing
Good RegEx engine (Oniguruma)
Easy network programming
Highly readable code
Low entry barrier
High developer happiness
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18. Let's see what else is there
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19. Before we start
http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/ruby-isnt-just-about-rails-presentation
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20. Web Application Frameworks
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21. Ruby can be used to program web applications
If you like with many available options such as
http://rubyonrails.org/ http://merbivore.org/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/
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22. Lightweight Web Servers
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23. There are quite a few lightweight web servers/
Web server libraries written in Ruby
http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
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24. Web Servers Interface
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25. In the form of Rack, unifies the API for web servers,
web frameworks, and software in between
http://rack.rubyforge.org/
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26. Scripting
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27. Ruby has always been a popular choice as a
Scripting language
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28. Other than that there are several scripting
Tools available in the Ruby world
Rake - http://rake.rubyforge.org/
Thor - http://github.com/wycats/thor
Boson - http://github.com/cldwalker/boson
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29. There is also a Ruby Shell available for
scripting purposes
http://rush.heroku.com/
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30. Security
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31. The popular Open Source Exploitation Framework
and Security tool Metasploit is written with Ruby
From the web UI to the disassembler
http://www.metasploit.com/
Plus the Metasploit Rex library (Ruby) which is
included in the Motasploit Framework contains
a lot a goodies.
Check it out!
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32. Mobile Applications
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33. Ruby native implementation is already available
under certain versions of SymbianOS
Rhodes mobile application framework enables
the development of cross-platform mobile applications
For iPhone, Android, WinMo, Symbian, BlackBerry
using Ruby which are compiled into native code
http://rhomobile.com/
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34. VoIP
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35. Adhearsion project brings the elegance of Ruby
Into the voice application domain
http://adhearsion.com/
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36. Deployment
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37. Capistrano makes deploying Ruby web applications
(and others up to a certain mark) very easy
http://www.capify.org/
There are alternatives to Capistrano (for Rails
deployment) such as
Vlad - http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html
Inploy - http://github.com/dcrec1/inploy
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38. Infrastructure Management
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39. Puppet is the current industry champion in the
Configuration Management game
http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
Chef is another tool similar to Puppet
http://github.com/opscode/chef
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40. What do you think now?
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41. For further information have a look at the white paper
“The Ruby and Rails Ecosystem”
http://www.infoether.com/ruby-and-rails-whitepaper
Disclaimer: The author was completely unaware of this whitepaper when
he was preparing these slides
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42. These are just generic introductions
Had to manage within the time constraints
Hope to do some hands on sessions in future
Q&A
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