Learn how to solve common business problems fast using Ruby on Rails.

1. Solving Your Business Problems Fast with Ruby on Rails

2. Rails Place in the World Tim Hoolihan, CTO Stone Crossing Solutions

3. What is Ruby / Rails What is Ruby? Ruby-lang.org What is Rails? RubyOnRails.org 3

4. The Obvious Startups / Green Field Applications Rapid Application Lots of Built-in Functionality (ORM, Validation, etc) Friendly Framework for Designers to Integrate in the Project No Licensing Cost 4

5. What About Enterprise Settings? Doesn’t the Enterprise Want Rapid Application Development too? Convention over Configuration Rails: Ruby as a Web DSL Flexible Language Rails and Gems provide a lot out of the box http://docs.rubygems.org/ 5

7. Rails is a Friendly Sources for Middleware or ETL

8. Easy to Expose Database, Web Services (XML, JSON)

9. Rails can consume Web Services

10. For Realtime integration, Rails can call your exposed Service APIs6

12. Batch Integration

13. Most companies have ETL or Middleware tools that solve integration (non-realtime)

14. MySQL or Postgres are the most common for Rails, but Rails can work with a variety of Database vendors:

15. SQL Server

16. Oracle

17. DB2 and more7

18. Enterprise continued Rails encourages Web Standards Helps Cross Browser Support Helps Mobile Support 8

19. Enterprise Practices These aspects of Rails aren’t often touted, but they fit right in with larger environments ActiveRecord (ORM) supports Transactions ActiveRecord supports Optimistic Concurrency ActiveRecord supports distributed Caching Rails supports centralized session server Scales Horizontally very well 9

21. What business applications are you considering for Rails? Submit a question now and we’ll discuss it during Q&A.Next – Josh Schramm will do a demonstration of the speed and ease of Ruby. 10

22. Ruby on Rails Live Demo Building a basic inventory management application 11

24. An employee can add a new product

25. An employee can enter the quantity on hand of a product

26. An employee can update the quantity when an item is sold

27. An employee can see a reorder quantity to know when to order more12

28. Ruby – Real Examples Joe Fiorini Lean Dog

29. About Me

31. Within3

37. Enterprise Integration

40. Automate Business Processes

42. Full Text Search

43. Code Generation

44. Deployment / Management

46. Productive tools

47. Productive tools + proper planning

48. = Better Software, Faster