017 RR What’s Wrong with Ruby?




The Ruby Rogues show

Summary: Panelists Brian Ford (Shirai) (blog twitter github) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code) Discussed in this Episode Rubinius RubySpec Testing Test::Unit RSpec Cucumber Levels or Ruby Language Implementation Community/Culture Ecosystem Assignment to something that could be a local variable or a setter method Having more than one way to do things map vs collect and vs && aliases alias method chain copy on alias when you alias a method, then alias its aliases for consistency in some cases ruby is white space sensitive ruby’s complex grammar documentation How much documentation do we need if we can open the source of our projects? speed Generally takes an architecture change to get better. the Ruby Application Archive (RAA) narray rbtree Picks standup meetings post (Josh) officeplayground.com (Josh) www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys (Josh) Rails 3.0 (James) Snow Leopard (James) Actors Blog Post (Brian) Mirrors Post (Brian) Netflix for iPad (Chuck) Skype (Chuck)