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I love Ruby, but last year I found myself at the Smithsonian Institution coding in, of all things, PHP & Drupal. And I realized that despite my ambivalence towards those technologies, I had no compelling-enough reason to propose Ruby as an alternative. How did we get to this point? I’ll tell 3 reasons we didn't use Ruby, and reflect on whether these are things we want, or problems we should solve.
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3 Reasons Not to Use Ruby
@ultrasaurus
I love Ruby
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Why Ruby?
Flexibility Test Framework
Software Evolution
Why Not Ruby?
#1
CMS
#1
Ruby CMS?
0
300,000
600,000
900,000
1,200,000
Refinery
Comfortable!Mexican Sofa
Browser CMSRadiantAlchemyLocamotive
Drupal 7
Drupal 6
Downloads
Active Installs
0
300,000
600,000
900,000
1,200,000
Refinery
Comfortable!Mexican Sofa
Browser CMSRadiantAlchemyLocamotive
Drupal 7
Drupal 6Ruby CMS?
Active Installs
#2
High Level Components
I can build a blog in 5 minutes!
CODE
#3
#3
Biggest Challenge is not code
So what?
Framework Choice leads to
Language Choice
CMS
CODE
time
100%
0%
CMS CODE
time
100%
0%
BIG
REW
RIT
E
Frameworks are
Patterns for How we Work
Ever notice that the top Ruby CMS options are all Rails apps…?
http://18fblog.tumblr.com/post/85232393363/a-few-notes-on-notalone-gov
A Few Notes on NotAlone.gov
Ecosystem of Components as Important as
the Language Itself
Component Ecosystem?
separate pieces assembled by a developer
OmniAuth
OmniAuth
Bootstrap
OmniAuth
Bootstrap
What we do not automate
we are doomed to repeat.
What will you
make happen?
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