Slides from my talk on .Net to Rails at Developer Developer Developer Dublin 2010

1. From .NET to Rails, A Developers Story Today Sponsors:

2. Disclamer All opinions and experiences expressed in this presentation completely my own. Your experience may differ. I reserve the right to change my mind

3. Why Rails

4. Because this man pays me

5. Enviroment VMWare Workstation Ubuntu 10.04 Redcar Ubuntu Native Terminal Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB) Rails Enviroment Current

6. Ruby Ruby Koans (http://rubykoans.com/)

7. Ruby All classes are open All methods return a value

8. Ruby on Rails Model View Controller (MVC) REST Convention over Configurations Highly testable

9. Ruby on Rails DEMO

10. Deployment Favour Platform as a service Heroku, Engineyard and Brightbox Simple deployment through gems or github Aid scaliablity

11. Resources Blog: http://pythonandchips.net Twitter: @colin_gemmell E-mail: pythonandchips@gmail.co.uk