Slides from the Intro to Rails talk and Boise Code Camp in 2014.

2. Outline
✔ Who uses Rails?
✔ What it's good at...
✔ The Ruby language
✔ Ruby on Rails
✔ Demo & Questions

3. Where it excels...
✔ Document Driven Web Applications
✔ Speed of Development
✔ Rapid prototyping; Iterating fast
✔ Multiple people on the team

4. Who Uses Rails?

5. The Ruby Language
✔ Yukihiro Matsumoto “Matz” in 1993
✔ Dynamic | Object Oriented
✔ Open Source
✔ Gem Infrastructure
✔ Built for programmer happiness
✔ Expressive

6. Ruby on Rails
✔ David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004
✔ Pragmatism
✔ Convention over Configuration
✔ DRY
✔ Open Source

7. (not) Ruby on Rails

8. Ruby on Rails
✔ Built on REST
✔ MVC
✔ Environments (dev, test, production)
✔ ORM – ActiveRecord (DB agnostic,
migrations, built in security)
✔ Testing
✔ Reasonable Defaults (SCSS, Coffee
Script, MiniTest, JQuery)

9. MVC

10. Demo Time!