ruby on rails industry trends

Ruby on Rails – Industry Ruby on Rails – Industry TrendsTrends

Sumanth Krishna. Atosumanthkrishna@gmail.com

AgendaAgenda

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

Ruby on Rails What it is?

Ruby on RailsRuby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework written with Ruby programming language.

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

Commonly also termed as Rails, RoR

Industry looks for...

Industry looks forIndustry looks for

Rapid development Well structured code – easy to

maintain Faster delivery Clients happy Developers happy More & Continuous business

Technologies

TechnologiesTechnologies Every new technology is a business

opportunity... Rails had brought many practices/techcnologies into lime light

Agile Methodologies SRUM Behavior & Test Driven Development AJAX jQuery/json/Scriptaculous MVC framework ORM design pattern RESTful architecture

Statistics

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Demand for RoR developers is high!

More Rails projects around

Customization Projects

e-commerce - Spreee-commerce - Spree

eLearning - FedenaeLearning - Fedena

CMS - RedmineCMS - Redmine

Micro blogging – stat.usMicro blogging – stat.us

Social Networking - insoshiSocial Networking - insoshi

Bug Tracking - Bug Tracking - retrospectivaretrospectiva

Blog - WagnBlog - Wagn

Community

CommunityCommunity

Very Very Very active community 52,829 gems/plug-in's since July,

2009 1,382,729,318 downloads www.rubygems.org www.rubyforge.net www.opensourcerails.com Google groups Ruby/Rails groups

Future

FutureFuture

Very Bright future Trend towards migrating some of the

legacy applications to Ruby on Rails Eg., YellowPages

Not just applications even technology migrations

Java to Ruby through jRuby .Net to Rails through ironRuby

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References – www.opensourcerails.comwww.indeed.comwww.wikipedia.org