My Ruby Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Trae Robrock This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Trae Robrock. Trae founded and is currently the CTO of Green Bits which builds POS software for the legal cannabis industry. They have been in business for about 4 years now and are growing as the cannabis industry does. He first got into programming started when he was growing up and was always around computers. He started off writing clients for mIRC where he would write chat bots and code. He got into Ruby when he found that Twitter was written in Rails and noticed that he should probably learn about it so he could get a job after college. Now, he’s focusing on Green Bits and growing his team so that he can make it a successful business.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on:  Trae introHow did you first get into programming?Grew up around computersmIRC Chat clientHow did you get into web development and Ruby?Web development was the only free version of programming availableHTML and PHPGot into Ruby in collegeCake