ruby beyond rails

RubyBeyondRails

Gaveen Prabhasara

http://gaveen.owain.org

Lanka Ruby User Group

28 October 2009

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1993

Matz

(Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Creates RubyRuby beyond Rails

Late 90s

Ruby gets

Recognition outside

JapanRuby beyond Rails

2004

DHH

(David Heinemeier

Hansson) Creates

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Then

Ruby becomes mainstream

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Now

Everybody think Ruby is the shorten termfor Ruby on Rails

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Now

Everybody think Ruby is the shorten termfor Ruby on Rails

And Everything is Fine! :)

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Ruby is aWeb programming language, right?

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No!(And sort of Yes)

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What else can Ruby Do?

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Quite a lot actually

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“a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus onsimplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is naturalto read and easy to write.”

"a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programminglanguage...

- Ruby Official Website

- Wikipedia

http://www.ruby-lang.org/

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has many implementations

MRI/YARV, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby,MagLev, Blue Ruby, MacRuby, HotRuby,

tinyrb, etc.

Which means Ruby is available on manySoftware platforms

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can run in many environments

Linux, Windows, MacOS X, SymbianOS,Common Unix variants, etc.

Which means Ruby is available on manyOperating Systems

Good string processing

Good RegEx engine (Oniguruma)

Easy network programming

Highly readable code

Low entry barrier

High developer happiness

Among other things,

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Let's see what else is there

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Before we start

http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/ruby-isnt-just-about-rails-presentation

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Web Application Frameworks

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Ruby can be used to program web applications

If you like with many available options such as

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http://rubyonrails.org/ http://merbivore.org/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/

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Lightweight Web Servers

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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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Web Servers Interface

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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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Scripting

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Ruby has always been a popular choice as aScripting language

Other than that there are several scriptingTools available in the Ruby world

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Rake - http://rake.rubyforge.org/

Thor - http://github.com/wycats/thor

Boson - http://github.com/cldwalker/boson

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There is also a Ruby Shell available forscripting purposes

http://rush.heroku.com/

Security

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The popular Open Source Exploitation Frameworkand 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 isincluded in the Motasploit Framework contains

a lot a goodies.

Check it out!

Mobile Applications

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Ruby native implementation is already availableunder certain versions of SymbianOS

Rhodes mobile application framework enablesthe development of cross-platform mobile applicationsFor iPhone, Android, WinMo, Symbian, BlackBerry

using Ruby which are compiled into native code

http://rhomobile.com/

VoIP

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Adhearsion project brings the elegance of RubyInto the voice application domain

http://adhearsion.com/

Deployment

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Capistrano makes deploying Ruby web applications(and others up to a certain mark) very easy

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http://www.capify.org/

There are alternatives to Capistrano (for Rails

deployment) such asVlad - http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html

Inploy - http://github.com/dcrec1/inploy

Infrastructure Management

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Puppet is the current industry champion in theConfiguration Management game

http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/

Chef is another tool similar to Puppethttp://github.com/opscode/chef

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What do you think now?

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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 whenhe was preparing these slides

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These are just generic introductions

Had to manage within the time constraints

Hope to do some hands on sessions in future

Q & A