Episode 47: Ruby

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News

• Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
• http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
• Learning Regular Expressions (Nicholas Bering)
• http://regexone.com
• Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer
• http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/
• JetBrains IDE Licensing Fiasco
• http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbrains-toolbox/

Book of the Show

• Jason: Paranoia RPG Player’s Handbook
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/paranoia-rpg/description
• Patrick: Lock In
• http://amzn.to/1PpZDsU

Tool of the Show

• Jason: ImageMagick / FFMpeg
• Patrick: Personal Capital https://www.personalcapital.com/

Ruby

• History
• "I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language." - Matsumoto
• Overview
• Similar to python
• Interpreted
• #5 in Redmonk Programming Language Rankings
• http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-rankings-6-15/?utm_content=buffer4d56b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
• Ruby on Rails
• Model-`View-Controller
• View: HTML w/ templates
• Controller: Application logic
• Model: Object-Relational Model
• Support for many databases and templating engines
• Pros
• Multi-Paradigm language
• Can be procedural / object oriented / functional
• MetaProgramming
• No goofy __dict__ like python
• Define and modify classes at runtime & reflective
• Good for DSLs
• Cons
• Dynamically Typed and Interpreted
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9747857/why-couldnt-twitter-scale-by-adding-servers-the-way-sites-like-facebook-have
• Scientific support doesn’t compare to numpy/scipy
• Learning
• http://railsforzombies.org