Ruby on Rails Development Ecosystem
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The document provides an overview of Ruby on Rails (RoR), emphasizing its advantages for web development, including productivity and accessibility for programmers. It discusses RoR's architecture, including the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and principles like 'Convention over Configuration' and 'Don't Repeat Yourself' (DRY). Additionally, the document highlights RoR's support for Agile development, behavior-driven development, and its applicability in cloud computing.
Ruby on Rails Development Ecosystem
- 1. Jump-start Ruby on Rails People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 1
- 2. • Get familiarized with Ruby on Rails – Advantages of RoR – Industry leaders who are using RoR • The Perfect Ruby on Rails Ecosystem 2People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Contents
- 3. 3 Introduction to Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days. -Tim O'Reilly, Founder of O'Reilly Media
- 4. 4People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Who’s using it?
- 5. 5People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Why so?
- 6. 6 Simpler Approach People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Ruby on Rails solves the common architectural problems that existed in traditional application development, like: » Persistence » Logging » Build scripts » Application configuration » Web tier components » Workflow
- 7. 7 Convention over configuration People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Ruby on Rails favors convention over configuration » A developer only needs to specify unconventional aspects of the application » No need for one large configuration file » Less time will be spent on defining obvious things which in turn will increase productivity
- 8. 8 Do not Repeat Yourself (DRY) People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » DRY is a design principle which is used in Ruby on Rails to reduce the repetition of information of all kinds » DRY code is created by data transformation and code generators » DRY code usually makes large applications easier to maintain
- 9. 9 Active Record Pattern People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Active Records provides an interface and binding between the tables in a relational database and the Ruby program code that manipulates database records » Allows simple designs and straightforward mappings between database tables and application objects.
- 10. 10 Model View Controller People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Ruby on Rails follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture » Helps in addressing the issues of code reusability and separation of concerns » With the help of Ajax, Backbone etc. MVC can be executed partly on the client
- 11. 11 Dynamic nature People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Ruby on Rails simplifies the client code behavior » Generation of dynamic content – web pages, emails, xml documents etc. is easy » Can inject independent code into classes, blocks and closures
- 12. 12 Database Persistence People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » The model of Ruby on Rails is seamlessly persisted to the database » Implementation of database migrations for applying and rolling back database changes is seamless
- 13. 13 Behavior Driven Development People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » RSpec, a Behavior Driven Framework for Ruby » Testing is more about writing specifications of the behavior of the program » Software components can easily be tested without resorting to external tools or generators
- 14. 14 Supports Agile People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Jenkins CI, for continuous integration » Cucumber for test driven development » Capistrano for deploys » Collaboration tools like Jira, and Pivotal tracker » Supports Total agile development
- 15. 15 Cloud Ready People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 » Ruby has already been named as the “Language of the Cloud” » Companies like Heroku, Engine Yard and Morphlabs are utilizing Ruby at its fullest to glue their cloud platform
- 16. 16People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 Product Engineering & Collaboration Source control Backlog management IDE Web server Databases User Experience Framework Key value store MVP The Perfect ROR Ecosystem
- 17. People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2013.01 17 Application servers language Cloud Deploy TDD BDD Continuous Integration Performance testing Code Quality Reek, Flog, Roodi, Heckle, Saikuro, Simian The Perfect ROR Ecosystem
- 18. People10 Technosoft Private Limited | 2012.08 18 RoR Product Development Go-to-Cloud with RoR and Heroku Expert RoR Developers www.people10.com [email protected]