Ruby on Rails

David Heinemeier Hansson

Web application framework

Web application template

Just fill in the blanks

All those little things

Convention over Config

But it’s all infrastructure!

Java meets PHP

Architectural purity of Java

Easy immediacy of PHP

Quick without getting dirty

No single, big innovation

A 37signals extraction

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More practical than clever

Solving real problems

The Whirlwind Tour

A full stack

Ruby in five E’s

Everything is an object

Elegant blocks of inline joy

Exploring with reflection

Extending at runtime

Extensive standard library

Domain languages

Who cares?

“In 1981, when I started working on Unix, I remember

being blown away by the power of the command-line

pipes-and-filters paradigm. I’ve worked with lots of

programming environments since then, but none of

them gave me that feeling of being able to write a

solution so well that working code just flew off of my

fingers. Until now: Ruby on Rails achieves for web

programming the same sort of conceptual leap that

Unix made for file-handling. You’ve got to try it!”

Bruce Perens

60,000+ downloads

“Most web frameworks force the developer to focus

on the needs of the framework. You spend your time

configuring X, or interfacing between Y and Z. Rails

isn't like that. With Rails you focus on delivering value

to your users. Everything else just gets taken care of.

Rails finally brings agility to the web.”

Dave Thomas

10 job openings in May

“Ruby on Rails is astounding. Using it is like watching

a kung-fu movie, where a dozen bad-ass frameworks

prepare to beat up the little newcomer only to be

handed their asses in a variety of imaginative ways”

Nathan Torkington

5 books announced

Learn more

http://www.rubyonrails.org

http://www.rubyonrails.com.br

Questions?

david@loudthinking.com