Talks/Ruby and Ruby on Rails ? A Perlish First Impression \\ {image:r-ror-1.png|Title slide from my Ruby and Ruby on Rails talk} I gave this brief talk for the fabulous {link:Pittsburgh Perl Mongers|http://pgh.pm.org/} on 2005-04-13. In it, I share my first impressions of Ruby and Ruby on Rails after a one-month project. You can download the slides here: {link:pgh-pm-ruby-ror.pdf|http://community.moertel.com/~thor/talks/pgh-pm-ruby-ror.pdf|img=none} I wish I had had more time to prepare slides on some of Ruby's {link:less-obvious and more-cool semantics|http://community.moertel.com/ss/space/start/2005-03-25/1#Writing_a_simple_Ruby_evaluator|img=none}, the class system, and metaprogramming. It also would have been nice to show longer code samples. Maybe I'll do a "Second Impressions of Ruby" talk later. One thing I did like about the talk is that I decided to generate the results of the code samples automatically during the slide-generation process (which is rather complex already). I originally did this to ensure that the results were accurate, but the big benefit turned out to be flexibility: It was easy to add and change code samples because I knew they would always come out right in the slides. 2005-05-12 01:27:08.446 2005-04-13 18:40:43.119 Thu May 12 01:07:10 EDT 2005