Hamburg on Ruby

In 2017, Ruby is proven, almost boring technology. We use it mostly to build Backends for Hipster Technology™ JavaScript Frontends. But Ruby can do so much more - so let’s explore that. Ruby can paint pictures. Ruby can make music. As we will see: Ruby can be an engineer’s tool, or an artist’s tool.

The Ruby community is very much focused on Rails. But while building web applications can be fun, in 2017, it is not always the most exciting of all jobs. I’m going to show you a handful of interesting projects and tools to use Ruby to do things you probably didn’t think about. Like making music. Or creating 3D objects. Or driving a light show. Or …

This is a remix (UG Edit) of a talk I've first given at Ruby On Ice 2018 and will perform at a couple of conferences during the year.