Ruby on Rails - industry trends is an attempt in show casing how Ruby on Rails picking up and in how many ways the implementations of this framework can be used widely.

1. Ruby on Rails – Industry Trends
Sumanth Krishna. A
tosumanthkrishna@gmail.com

2. Agenda
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Ruby on Rails – What it is?
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Why industry embracing RoR?
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Technologies/Opportunities involved
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Some cool applications
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Community
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What's the future?

3. Ruby on Rails What it is?

4. Ruby on Rails
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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web
application framework written with Ruby
programming language.
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The benefits of the speed and agility of
building applications in Rails, which results in
increased productivity and company growth
is the successful driving factor
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Commonly also termed as Rails, RoR

5. Industry looks for...

6. Industry looks for
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Rapid development
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Well structured code – easy to maintain
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Faster delivery
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Clients happy
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Developers happy
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More & Continuous business

7. Technologies

8. Technologies
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Every new technology is a business
opportunity... Rails had brought many
practices/techcnologies into lime light
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Agile Methodologies
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SRUM
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Behavior & Test Driven Development
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AJAX
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jQuery/json/Scriptaculous
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MVC framework
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ORM design pattern
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RESTful architecture

9. Statistics

10. Show me stats...
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Demand for RoR developers is high!
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More Rails projects around

11. Customization Projects

12. e-commerce - Spree

13. eLearning - Fedena

14. CMS - Redmine

15. Micro blogging – stat.us

16. Social Networking - insoshi

17. Bug Tracking - retrospectiva

18. Blog - Wagn

19. Community

20. Community
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Very Very Very active community
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52,829 gems/plug-in's since July, 2009
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1,382,729,318 downloads
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www.rubygems.org
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www.rubyforge.net
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www.opensourcerails.com
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Google groups
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Ruby/Rails groups

21. Future

22. Future
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Very Bright future
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Trend towards migrating some of the legacy
applications to Ruby on Rails
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Eg., YellowPages
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Not just applications even technology
migrations
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Java to Ruby through jRuby
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.Net to Rails through ironRuby

23. Thanks
References –
www.opensourcerails.com
www.indeed.com
www.wikipedia.org