The Ruby Rogues

This week we really dug into the issues surrounding RubyGems and why people are worried about it. Gregory Brown (RMU) really helped us unravel some of the issues people are having. If you want to know what the issues are in this dog fight, this is a good place to find out. Panelists Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) David Brady (@dbrady) Gregory Brown (@seacreature) James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) Items discussed in today's episode RubyGems SlimGems RDoc YarDoc Rocco.rb RubyGems Future Proofing ADDCasts PDFWriter Prawn Ruby Mendicant University (RMU) (Greg told me that there are a few slots open in July that will probably fill soon if you want them.) Panel Picks Exceptional Ruby (Dave) How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (Dave) Affiliate Link International Conference on Functional Programming Contest (James) Slimtimer (Chuck) iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) (Chuck) pry (Greg) Conversations with Smart People

Panelists Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) Fernand Galiana (@kitesurfer) James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) Peter Cooper (@peterc) Items discussed in today's episode amalgalite Queue Classic mysql postgresql sqlite mongodb redis tokyo cabinet oracle Aaron's RailsConf Keynote GPL License MIT License key-value stores document stores memcached homebrew rabbitmq amqp beanstalk resque delayed job cassandra amazon simpledb hadoop couchdb Panel Picks mongodump (Peter) mailcatcher (Peter) inliner (Peter) scheme (Aaron) chickenscheme (Aaron) mailplane (James) fluid (James) vimgolf (Charles) Contemporary VA (Charles) lastpass (Charles) jQuery.template (Fernand) bulk_api (Fernand) getaround.com (Fernand)

Panelists: Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) Peter Cooper (@peterc) Wynn Netherland (@pengwynn) Tools and topics mentioned in this episode: HAML SASS CoffeeScript ERB FireSass tilt SCSS Heroku git hooks Titanium Slim Mustache Builder Markaby Tagz Zappa Jekyll Markdown Textile Liquid CoffeeCup Erector Ruby-Toolbox Picks: O'Reilly Videos from RailsConf (Peter): DHH Keynote Aaron Patterson Keynote Ruby Heroes Legos (James) Affiliate Link Peepcode: Especially the Postgres and Play-by-play videos (James) Secrets of the Hobbit (Chuck) Steak (Chuck) guard (Wynn) ti (Wynn) Sure Cuts Alot (Wynn) The music is "Not Your Choice" by Wetnurse and available on Metal Sucks.

Panelists: Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) David Brady (@dbrady) Evan Phoenix (@evanphx) James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) Peter Cooper (@peterc) Tools and topics mentioned in this episode: Rubinius JRuby Maglev MRI (Ruby 1.8.x) Yarv (Ruby 1.9.x) JIT compilers Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) Thread Safety Picks: Brain Rules for Baby (James) Affiliate link Free-Range Kids (James) Affiliate link The Panic-Free Pregnancy (Evan) Affiliate link CoffeeScriptCookbook.com (Dave) RailsCasts (Peter) MailChimp (Peter) Referral link Sickpedia (Peter) NOTE: Peter says this is NSFW. macvim (Chuck) janus (Chuck) RVM (Chuck) Trader Tales (Chuck) ack (Evan) git-grep (Evan) The music is "Not Your Choice" by Wetnurse and available on Metal Sucks.

Panelists: Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) David Brady (@dbrady) James Edward Gray II (@JEG2) Peter Cooper (@peterc) Tools and topics mentioned in this episode: Rspec Test::Unit Minitest Minitest-spec Riot Cucumber East-facing Tests Picks: tmux (James) Ecamm call recorder (Chuck) Minecraft (Aaron) Crack attack (Aaron) Portal 2 (David) You can see the Portal 2 video David mentioned here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFwJH0tlI0 Learned Optimism (David) This is an affiliate link. Railscasts (Peter) Spotify (Peter) Eloquent Ruby (Peter) This is an affiliate link. The Linux Programming Interface (Peter) This is an affiliate link.