[NCLUG] Ruby Fanatics?

[S. Luke Jones]

In the words of Arthur-King, "you make me sad." I was a lonely rubyist from when I first heard about it (the original PragProg article in Dr. Dobbs, ca. 2000) until the present. I actually gave a talk about ruby at NCLUG when NCLUG was meeting (I forget where: somewhere in old town near college & riverside?).

But I quit doing programming for a living was right about when Rails came out, and the ruby community left me in its dust. It's all I can do nowadays to make sense of some of the gems I run across on github.

Luke


On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 06:45:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Michael Riversong wrote:
>>> It's my understanding that there are some Ruby fanatics in
>>> Ft. Collins.  Would like to be in the loop for events involving
>>> that.
>> 
>> There are a few Rubyists in the area.  I like programming in Ruby for
>> random things that need scripting.  But I don't think I qualify as
>> being "fanatical" about it.  I am more of a rethreaded Perl programmer
>> who discovered Ruby and enjoy using it.  But unfortunately there
>> doesn't seem to be a huge community of Rubyists here.  At least not as
>> many as other languages and not as many as elsewhere.
> 
> There are many more in Boulder, but they're about 98% Rails-centric
> startup people, so I find I do not have much in common with them.  I like
> Ruby, but am not the world's biggest fan of Rails.  Basically, the only
> use I have for Rails is getting paid work involving Ruby.
> 
> . . . because I really like Ruby.

S. Luke Jones
slukejones at gmail.com