RR 363: Fir - The Friendly Interactive Ruby REPL with Dean Nasseri
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English - May 22, 2018 14:30 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Panel:
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers
Special Guests: Dean Nasseri
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Dean Nasseri about Fir. Fir is the friendly interactive Ruby REPL that Dean created when he was inspired by the REPL Fish. Dean is a software engineer at VTS, which is a commercial real estate software platform that uses Ruby on Rails. They talk about why he created Fir, how he approached creating it, how long it took him to build, and much more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Dean intro
What is Fir?
Inspired by Fish REPL
Interactive approach
Does that work with multi-lines?
Quick lookup
What’s your favorite way to use Fir?
Use REPLs for everything
Pry
Pry vs Fir
How did you approach creating a REPL?
Looked at Pry a lot hen creating Fir
Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
Do you have a lot of users of it?
Wants to direct people to Fish
Why would someone switch to Fish?
Oh My ZSH
Auto suggestions are killer
How much time did this take you to build?
What kind of terminal do you use?
Hyper
Mert
And much, much more!
Links:
VTS
Fir
Ruby on Rails
Fish
Pry
Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
Oh My ZSH
Hyper
Mert
nasseri.io
@DeanNasseri
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