My Ruby Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Evans This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Jeremy Evans. Jeremy has been programming Ruby since 2004, and is best known for working on Roda and Sequel. He talks about his journey into programming, starting when he was in college and took an introduction to programming class that focused on C++, which he found interesting and then took the next courses in the series. This was just the beginning for his programming journey, though. Jeremy continues to talk about his present and future endeavors and how he is adding value to the Ruby community. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  How did you first get introduced into programming?Roda and SequelRails and SinatraC++Java OutletsStatic sites to PHPPythonHow did you get into Ruby?Ruby was more enjoyable to useOver time, how has your view on code and Ruby changed?Avoid aliasesAutomated testsTook over SequelOpen-Source projectsSinatra is not as good with good cases, Roda is betterWhat’s it like to create a framework