Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
• Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
• Steve will be at Codeconf
• Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
• Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
• Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
• Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
• Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
• Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
• Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
• Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
• Steve likes Janus for Vim
• Steve asks about Redcar
• Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
• Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
• Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
• “If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
• Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
• The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
• Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
• Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge

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