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Carl Lerche on Rails 3 and Arel
Carl Lerche talks about the changes, design and new features in Rails 3. Also: the concepts and reasons behind Arel, the Rails 3 relational algebra library.
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Aaron Quint on the State of Javascript
Aaron Quint talks about his projects Sammy, a Javascript port of Sinatra, and Jim, a Javascript packaging tool, as well as the state of Javascript, jQuery, Node.js, CommonJS, and much more.
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Oren Teich and Blake Mizerany on Heroku
Oren Teich and Blake Mizerany talk about the technology behind Heroku and the benefits of the new add-on system.
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Adam Wiggins on Heroku
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
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Dr Nic Williams on Sustainable Ruby Open Source Development
Dr Nic Williams talks about his Ruby open source contributions (TextMate bundles, newgem,...), and how he manages to keep his many open source projects alive while still having a life.
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Yehuda Katz explains Merb
In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about Merb, its design principles, and how it differs from Rails. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement.
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Reginald Braithwaite on Rewrite
In this interview filmed at RubyFringe, Reginald Braithwaite talks about his past experiences with languages, programming, and software development, and what attracted him to Ruby. He also talks about Rewrite, a collection of features which add "sexp-rewriting meta-programming to Ruby".
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Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#.
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Eric Hodel discusses RubyGems and his involvement in the Ruby Community
Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer
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Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius
Wilson Bilkovich is one of the core developers of the Rubinius project - a Ruby implementation written in Ruby. Wilson is also one of the members of the Ruby Hit Squad, developers of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer. In this interview with InfoQ, Wilson discusses the implementation of Rubinius, and its current status with Werner Schuster.
