We all know Yukihiro Matsumoto invented Ruby, but how many of the other people behind Ruby can you name? Judging from this photo taken just a few weeks ago at RubyKaigi 2013, the Ruby 2.0 release was a real team effort, with…
Continue Reading…“Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.” – Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Not everyone might agree, but as a Rubyist I think Matz achieved his design goal. There’s something intangible about Ruby’s syntax that makes it fun, rewarding and easy to use…
Continue Reading…Have you ever noticed Ruby doesn’t include support for linked lists? Most computer science textbooks are filled with algorithms, examples and exercises based on linked lists: inserting or removing elements, sorting lists, reversing lists, etc. Strangely, however, there is no linked list…
Continue Reading…Yesterday I posted the first half of my interview with Laurent Sansonetti about RubyMotion, an implementation of Ruby that targets Apple’s iOS mobile platform. If you’re not very familiar with RubyMotion be sure to read that first. We had a chance to…
Continue Reading…It was only last April when Laurent Sansonetti captured the imagination of the entire Ruby community with RubyMotion. For the first time Ruby developers were able to write apps directly for the iOS mobile platform using the language we all know and…
Continue Reading…Jim Weirich is Chief Scientist at Neo I’ve been familiar with Jim Weirich’s name for a while; among other things he wrote the “rake” tool which most of us use on a daily basis. Then I was lucky enough to see Jim…
Continue Reading…Xavier won the Ruby Hero award in 2010 Xavier Noria (pronounced “sha – vee – aay” in Catalan) is very well known in the Ruby community. A self-employed Ruby developer from Barcelona, he’s also a member of the Rails core team and…
Continue Reading…I first came across Narihiro Nakamura’s name while researching an article about garbage collection I wrote back in March. He had just committed a large code change to the upcoming MRI Ruby 2.0 release enabling a new garbage collection technique called “bitmap…
Continue Reading…I’d heard second hand for a long time that Mark Bates was a great public speaker, but it wasn’t until the March meeting of Boston.rb that I had a chance to find out for myself. He gave a great presentation called Testing…
Continue Reading…I’ve always considered Cucumber to be just another tool in my developer’s toolkit of testing tools. Like RSpec, Test::Unit or MiniTest::Spec I thought of Cucumber as just another way to test my code: I would use RSpec for my unit tests, and…
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