Whenever you say that you're building a web application with Ruby, its almost implied that you will be using Rails to do so.

But imagine for a second that Rails does not exist at all. What kind of Ruby code would you write to make a web application work from scratch?

During this talk we will think about and implement some of the MVC patterns that are taken for granted when using a framework like Rails, while at the same time write a web application with only a little help from Rack

David Padilla is CEO at Crowd Interactive, a leader Ruby on Rails consultancy based in Mexico.

Through his career, he has been devoted to promoting the Ruby on Rails community in Mexico through rails.mx and the organization of the only Ruby conference in the area: Magma Conf.