Scala on Rails The Most Developer-Friendly Web Framework on the JVM

Kazuhiro Sera @seratch 2014/10/25 at Rakuten Technology Conference 2014

Build Concurrent, Distributed Apps

Scala is so powerful. Is it also useful for

usual apps? Absolutely Yes.

Usual Web Apps

Rails is not just a library. It’s a confirmed concept

to build web apps.

So I followed Rails style in the Scala world. Skinny Framework.

The most developer-friendly Web app

framework on the JVM

Installation

Mac OS X・Prerequisite: JDK 1.6 or higher ・Just `brew install skinny`

brew updatebrew install skinny

Windows? No problem!

Windows users are first-class citizens.

Windows / Linux・Prerequisite: JDK 1.6 or higher ・Download blank project from skinny-framework.org ・Or use Yeoman generator

npm install -g yonpm install -g generator-skinnyyo skinny

Todolist App

New Skinny app1

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Scaffold Generatorplural singular attributes..

DB Migration

Now everything is done

Let’s add new task!

Validations by default

Pagination by default

Statically Typed Rails

Reverse Scaffoldtable_name plural singular

Generates scaffold from existing DB!

More Features for JS-heavy

Apps

Angular Ready!

Scala.js Ready!

Source Maps

Watch Task Runner

The most developer-friendly Web app

framework on the JVM

Begin Scala with Skinny! http://skinny-framework/