5 Ruby Gems in 10 minutes Presented at Austin.rb Feb 3, 2014. Diametric, Twitter, Hashie, Faraday, and Adamantium were discussed along with their influence on thinking of how we deal with Ruby objects

1. PERSISTENCE, DATA STRUCTURES, AND
THESE THINGS THAT LIVE IN APP/MODELS
Justin Litchfield
@sototallysweet

2. Data
Data
App1
DB
PROBLEM SPACE
Data
App2
DB

3. App3
Data
Persistence
As A
Service
App1
App4
App2
DB
PROBLEM SPACE
Data
DB

4. DIAMETRIC
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/RELEVANCE/DIAMETRIC
Wrapper/ORM for Datomic
Datomic is a DB that stores “facts” about an entity
Facts have time stamps and other metadata

5. DIAMETRIC
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/RELEVANCE/DIAMETRIC

6. DATA STRUCTURES IN REAL
“LIVE” APPS

7. TWITTER GEM
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/SFERIK/TWITTER
Uses lots of other cool gems
Worth reading
Great structure
244 Files (!!!)

8. FARADAY
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/LOSTISLAND/FARADAY

9. FARADAY
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/LOSTISLAND/FARADAY

10. HASHIE
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/INTRIDEA/HASHIE
Can quickly describe data structures
Provides things like validation, type coersion
But it just feels like a hash

11. HASHIE
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/INTRIDEA/HASHIE

12. HASHIE
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/INTRIDEA/HASHIE

13. HASHIE
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/INTRIDEA/HASHIE

14. ADAMANTIUM
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/DKUBB/ADAMANTIUM
“Makes objects immutable in a simple, unobtrusive way”
Performance problems?