Ruby Rogues Live Keynote

Presenter: Ruby Rogues Live

Abstract

Ruby's favorite podcast comes to RailsConf! Join the Ruby Rogues (David Brady, James Edward Gray II, Avdi Grimm, Josh Susser, and Charles Max Wood) for this live episode on What Rails Developers Should Care About.

If you've listened to the show, you probably know that the Rogues favor:

• Good Object Oriented design
• Patterns
• Test Driven Development
• The Law of Demeter and Tell, Don't Ask
• Open source
• Beautiful code
• Pair programming
• Code metrics
• Scaling performant code
• and more

Since this is a live episode, we want to interact with the audience. Each Rogue will give a brief introduction on what's important to him as a Rubyist on Rails, then we will turn the session over to your questions. We will take them over the Internet and/or live, before and during the show.

All that AND we promise to wear amazing hats!

Notes

• Send questions to [email protected]

From @benjaminoakes

• @stevenzeiler won a ticket to next year
• A full year of RR
• @jeg2
  • What should Rails developers care about
  • Best moment: "All code is experimental" - Dan Kubb
  • How Sputnik was invented
    • Reverse engineer the path... led to GPS
  • Imitating proper behavior: "The Journal of Best Practices" (David Finch) - dealing with Asperger's
  • "Here's your new best practice: not everything is a best practice"
• Avdi
  • Why him? Not an expert or prolific at OSS
  • Giving names to things; mindful coding
  • WikiWiki http://c2.com/wiki - read it
  • Don't "shut up and code
  • Give names to your decisions; introspect
• David Brady (FIXME not sure of the name)
  • Anti-patterns
  • Don't program another language in Ruby

@danbernier

External Links

• Podcast episode TODO
• Video TODO