Phoenix for Rubyists

Deccan RubyConf 2016

Mike North Levanto Financial

@MichaelLNorth

FOR ISTS

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I <3 RUBY

HERE’S SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN

DONE WITHOUT RUBY & RAILS

OPINIONS & PRODUCTIVITY

1. THE STORY

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

3. PHOENIX IS NOT LIKE RAILS

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

3. PHOENIX IS NOT LIKE RAILS

4. HOWTO

THE STORY

@chris_mccord dockyard.com Inventor of Phoenix

Chris Mccord

THE STORY

@chris_mccord dockyard.com Inventor of Phoenix

Chris Mccord

THE STORY

@josevalim plataformatec.com Rails Core Alum Inventor of Elixir

Jose Valim

MOORE’S LAWComputing power doubles ~ every two years

MOORE’S LAWComputing power doubles ~ every two years

Erlang Ruby

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THE STORY

@chris_mccord dockyard.com Inventor of Phoenix

Chris Mccord

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

RakeBundler

MIX

Model Table Schema

ROUTER

CONTROLLERS

MIGRATIONS

TESTS

TEMPLATES

ERRORS

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

3. PHOENIX IS NOT LIKE RAILS

PIPE FORWARD |>

•Shorthand for “send return along as first value of next function”

IMMUTABILITY

Think of variables as “labels for values”

IMMUTABILITY

Think of variables as “labels for values”

MODELS

ActiveRecord & Making your life easy one N+1

query at a time

MODELS

1. THE STORY

2. PHOENIX IS LIKE RAILS

3. PHOENIX IS NOT LIKE RAILS

4. HOWTO

HOWTO

•One-shot rewrites are expensive and dangerous

•You suffer, your company suffers, your users suffer

•Incremental change makes everyone happier

REVERSE PROXY

Rails Phoenix

REVERSE PROXY

RailsPhoenix

ELIXIR & PHOENIX

•Performant

•Productive

•Functional

•You’re already halfway there

SOME IMAGES & DIAGRAMS AND OTHER STUFF FROM…•https://www.toptal.com/erlang/a-cloud-at-the-lowest-level-built-in-erlang

•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law •https://theerlangelist.blogspot.in/2013/05/working-with-immutable-data.html

•https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2014/2/14/putting-ruby-on-rails-on-a-diet/

•https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores-law-is-dead-now-what/

THANKS!