Talk Proposal: Using Ruby in a Non-Ruby World

[Samuel E. Giddins]

Hi everyone!

I'm an iOS developer at Realm by day and an open-source Rubyist by night.

I've been on the CocoaPods Core team for about a year, and also head up the Jazzy project -- both of these are large open source tools written in Ruby for non-Ruby audiences.

I have a talk prepared about using Ruby to solve problems for non-Ruby people, inspired mostly by my work on Jazzy and CocoaPods, but also influenced by my work re-writing the Bundler dependency resolver.

It goes into the challenges faced when you can't assume that your users are familiar with Ruby, particularly from the perspective of project maintenance, but also with a focus on building beautiful DSLs that don't presume Ruby expertise.

It even ends with some hints on how you can convince your users to contribute back to a project, even when they're convinced they don't know Ruby.

Let me know if this is a topic y'all might be interest in? :)

Thanks!

Samuel Giddins

[Chris Hough]

Definitely +1 from me :)

Cheers.

[Davy Stevenson]

👍

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[Kirsten Comandich]

Thanks Samuel, sounds interesting!

I think we are full for the February 3rd meeting. (The plan is for Markus, David & Ben, and Jamon's talk on RubyMotion. We want to try to keep the meetings from getting too long).

How about presenting at our March 3rd meeting?

http://calagator.org/events/1250467567

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Davy Stevenson <davy.st...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jamon Holmgren]

I'm interested too! We use CocoaPods all the time in our RubyMotion work (thanks Samuel).

- Jamon

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 2:15:25 PM UTC-8, Samuel E. Giddins wrote:

[Samuel E. Giddins]

Presenting at the March 3rd meeting would be great! If you want to get in touch directly, I'm at segi...@segiddins.me.

[Kirsten Comandich]

I finally got the video of Samuel's talk online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99v1HkYcmOo

Thanks for speaking, Samuel, and thanks for recording, Eli!

PDX Ruby's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgEEluMvb1Fp3FExqh-YZmw