Ruby on Rails

A Simple Decision?

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 Why Research?

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 Why Ruby on Rails?

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 How?

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 Yet another tool!

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 What is Ruby on Rails?

Web Application Development

Framework
David Heinemeier Hansson (37
Signals)
Released 2004
Windows, Macintosh, Linux
All common databases

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 What is Ruby?
Programming language
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
Released mid 1990’s
Object Oriented
Interpretive
Dynamic
Open Source

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 Ruby’s rise

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 Ruby Code
array = [1, 'hi', 3.14]
array.each { |item| puts item }
# => 1
# => 'hi'
# => 3.14
Everything is an object!
2.445.floor
# 2
3.123.ceil
# 4

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 Rails Philosophy

Model-View-Controller
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
Convention over Configuration
Open Source
Aim for 80% - Keep it Simple

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 Scaffolding

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 Agile
Focus on:

People
Working software
Customer
Flexibility

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 Rails is used for …

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 Practical: InstantRails

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 Rails is …

Simple
Productive
Fun

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 Questions?

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