Panel:

Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Olivier LacanIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Olivier Lacan about his blog post Why Won’t Bundle Update? and related topics. Olivier was originally a designer/web developer who fell into Ruby around 2010 and has been working on Code School, which is sadly in the process of being shut down. They talk about what package managers are, where you would you see them normally in code, dependencies, gems, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Olivier intro
Sass and Haml
Code School
Why they are shutting down Code School
Transferring expertise to PluralSight
The Life and Death of a Rails App
What is a package manager?
Where would you see a package manager?
Reusable code
More structured and sustainable process
Conversations that helps the community mature
Ruby Gems
What’s acceptable across communities
Dependencies
Having collaborative conversations
Yarn
Transitive dependencies
Authentication
Dependencies as degrees of liability
Taking on risk
And much, much more!

Links:

RR 364: Why Won't Bundle Update? with Olivier Lacan