First Steps

Viktor Justo Vasquez

@vjustov

Ruby was born in 1993, conceived in a discussion between Yukihiro Matsumoto (“Matz”) and a colleague. They were discussing the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language.

Why ruby?

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In 2005, Ruby use took off. The reason: Ruby on Rails. This new framework changed the history of rapid web development. Ruby had been used in the past to write CGI scripts, but Ruby on Rails took this a step further. Rails has a Model-View-Controller structure that focuses on “convention over configuration”, which is great for quickly developing web applications.

Resources

Ruby.do User Group
https://slides.com/vjustov/first-steps
https://github.com/vjustov/first-steps
http://tryruby.org/
http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

First Steps

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First Steps

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First Steps

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