Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, Tender Lovemaking (Changelog Interviews #44)

Wynn caught up with Aaron Patterson, aka @tenderlove, to talk about Ruby 1.9, Nokogiri, and muscle cars.

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Show Notes:

• RubyCommitters.org lists all the folks who hack on the Ruby language
• Nokogiri is a library for parsing XML and HTML
• The origins of tenderlove, Aaron’s online persona
• Hot linking, check it and see. Got a page rank of a hundred and three., to the tune of Hot Blooded
• Mechanize adds an API to any website
• Being a Ruby committer is ‘alright’
• Yugui, release manager for Ruby 1.9
• The current state of rubycommitters.org reminds us of CSS Naked Day
• REXML is a pure Ruby XML processor
• MiniTest is Aaron’s favorite testing framework
• His favorite Ruby 1.9.2 feature is speed
• texticle is a wrapper around Postgress T-Search APIs
• Aaron will be keynoting at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
• FasterCSV from JEG2, one of the organizers for Red Dirt Ruby Conf.
• El Camino, IROC-Z, or Firebird with T-tops are Aaron’s top three dream cars
• For those who have never shaved a Yak and otherwise did not know it.
• Arel is at the heart of Rails 3 ActiveRecord improvements
• Debian’s Ruby maintainer says he’s out
• Ruby Kaigi, the C conference disguised as a Ruby conference
• In addition to Japanese, Aaron also speaks Scheme and Haskell
• Wynn ? CoffeeScript
• Aaron wants to pair program with Jim Weirich
• Wynn suggests Aaron capitalize on Tenderlovemaking by organizing promiscuous pair programming

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