091 RR The Ruby Design Process with Brian Shirai

02:16 – Brian Shirai Introduction

• Formerly known as Brian Ford
• RR 017: What’s Wrong with Ruby?
• RubySpec
• Rubinius
• Engine Yard

05:05 – Ruby’s Design Process

• Ruby Conf 12 – Toward a Design for Ruby by Brian Ford
• jRuby
• MagLev
• IronRuby
• JSConf2012 – Brian Ford: Is Node.js Better?

09:55 – Implementations

• Ruby MRI (Matz’s Ruby Interpreter)

11:25 – What does a dying language look like?

• Smalltalk
• Squeak

14:16 – Changing the Ruby Process

• Fragmentation
• m17n (multilingualization)

19:15 – Ruby’s Design Process (cont’d)

• Ruby Conf 12 – Toward a Design for Ruby by Brian Ford
• A Ruby Design Process: Brian Shirai
• A Ruby Design Process – Talking Points: Brian Shirai
• RubySpec: A Ruby Design Process (Summary)
• People the missing ingredient: Joe O’Brien

25:13 – Point 1: Forming a Council

28:25 – Point 2: Proposing a Change

• Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz)
• Joe Damato

36:31 – Point 3: Proposal Criteria

• RubySpec
• @brixen

46:43 – Point 4: Accepting/Rejecting Proposals

• Consensus
• Fork
• Fist-to-Five Consensus-Building
• Refinements
• Developers Meeting
• Rails is omakase: David Heinemeier Hansson
• A bug thread including Matz's response

01:12:11 – Point 5: Implementing the Proposal

01:18:04 – Point 6: Discussing the Feature

01:27:51 – Point 7: Voting on the Proposed Change

• Challenging Matz
• Power
• Brian followup
• Robert's Rules
• Communication

Book Club

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler: Read along with us! We will be discussing the book with Martin himself and the episode will air on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013.

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