Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Interview)

Jan 10, 2011

34:05

Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.

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Show Notes:

RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
Mechanize adds an API to any website
Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
Wynn ? CoffeeScript
Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming