Episode 13: Ruby in Practice

Recording Venue:
Guest(s): Thomas Quas
Host(s): Alexander
Ruby has been getting more and more attention by the developer community over the last couple of years. Nevertheless Ruby as language and as a plattform is not too widespread. Most developers don’t know people who have actually done commercial Ruby projects. Therefore it is sometimes hard to judge if Ruby is just a hype topic or if Ruby can be used for serious projects today. In this episode Alexander speaks with Thomas Quas about a commercial Ruby project Thomas finished a while ago. Thomas shares his insights and practical experiences with Ruby doing a project under strong time pressure. As Thomas has many years experience doing Java projects we also do some high level comparisons between both platforms.

Links:

• Ruby-GNOME2
• Scripting Windows Apps
• Duck Typing
• Ruby Mixins
• Pickaxe Book
• RubyCocoa – A Ruby/Objective-C Bridge for Mac OS X with Cocoa
• Some information on Ruby 2

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS