Rubyology
101 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Rubyology podcast is a series of lessons learned by Chris Matthieu on his endeavor of switching from Microsoft .NET programming to Ruby on Rails. Believe it or not, there are similarities between both Micorost ASP and .NET and Ruby on Rails. Let Chris show you how to get up and running on Rails and become proficient with Ruby with little effort. Learn AJAX tricks, tagging, buddy lists, rating, and other Web 2.0 social network programming techniques and get your idea to market today! While you are at it, check out the Rubyology.com website for code snippets and additional show information.
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Episodes
Rubyology 101: Adhearsion 2.0
April 18, 2012 03:50Chris Matthieu caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of MojoLingo to discuss the new release of Adhearsion 2.0, the Ruby framework for building telephony apps on Asterisk and PRISM.
Rubyology 100: Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld re AdhearsionConf
September 22, 2011 20:43Today, I spoke with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of Mojo Lingo about Adhearsion and the upcoming AdhearsionConf in San Francisco 10/8 and 10/9. We also talked about new technology coming to Adhearsion including: Rayo, the new real-time protocol developed by Voxeo Labs, and Punchblock, the new rack-like Ruby middleware for telephony apps.
Rubyology 99: Steven Bristol (Madison RubyConf)
August 12, 2011 00:21Chris Matthieu sat down with Steven Bristol from LessEverything to chat about his upcoming involvement at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011. Steven will be moderating two panels: 1. Software as a Service (Note: I'll be on that panel) 2. Software Testing Steven is a real cool and accomplished guy but don't tell him that because it will go to his head :)
Rubyology 98: Jessie Shternshus (Madison RubyConf)
August 11, 2011 23:38Chris Matthieu sat down with Jessie Shternshus to chat about her upcoming involvement at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011. As founder and owner of The IMPROV EFFECT, Jessie weds her lifelong passion for, and expertise in, improvisational acting with the fast paced demands of the corporate world. In her classes and workshops she helps people become better listeners, team players, leaders, and communicators. Her physically engaging and playful workshops are relevant to all fi...
Rubyology: 97 Jim Freeze and John Dyer (Lonestar Rubyconf V)
August 10, 2011 18:17Chris Matthieu sat down with Jim Freeze, the LSRC organizer, and John Dyer, one of Tropo's System Engineers and Developer Evangelists. Get ready for an awesome two-track Ruby conference with an all-star presenter cast starting tomorrow (8/11) in Austin, Tx - The LoneStar RubyConf! This is @LSRC's fifth consecutive year so these guys really know how to throw a conference. John Dyer will be onsite representing Tropo, the leading cloud and VoIP communications company. He will be running a ha...
Rubyology 96: Brian Hogan (Madison Ruby Conf)
August 10, 2011 00:38Chris Matthieu sat down with Brian P. Hogan to chat about his upcoming talk at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011. Brian's talk is entitled, "Creating RubyGems from Scratch". If you've ever looked into how to create Gems, you've probably seen a bunch of ways to do that. Project generators like Hoe, Jeweler, and the like offer some nice ways to get started, but they may often be overkill for many projects. If you're just starting out, why not learn to do it from scratch? In...
Rubyology 95: Madison Ruby Conference
August 10, 2011 00:01Chris Matthieu sat down with Jim Remsik (AKA Big Tiger) to discuss the upcoming Madison Ruby Conference! The conference includes a 1 day workshop on 8/18/2011 followed by a 2 day, 2 track line-up of amazing speakers. Stay tuned for the latest conference news by following @MadisonRuby on Twitter!
rubyology 94: PrivatelyApp
January 07, 2011 15:53Chris Matthieu sat down with Les Hill from HashRocket to talk about his new Twitter application called PrivatelyApp. Privately lets you initiate private conversations from Twitter like a Group DM. Les and I even coordinated this interview using Privately. It's simple to use and it just works great! Privately is still in closed beta but the first 50 Rubyology listeners to sign-up will get in. Ready-set-GO! Click the setup link for early access to the site!
Rubyology 93: SunnyConf - Luigi Montanez Interview
September 15, 2010 09:22Chris Matthieu sat down with Luigi Montanez to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about Civic Coding! If you have been watching the Open Government or Gov2.0 space and looking to get involved in an opensource civic API-based application, you're going to want to catch this interview and Luigi's talk in person! Don't miss your chance to catch Luigi's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.ev...
Rubyology 92: SunnyConf - Dave Keener Interview
September 13, 2010 11:20Chris Matthieu sat down with Dave Keener to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about adding Facebook to Rails! If you have been interested in adding Facebook Connect and other Facebook features to your Rails applications, this is a must-see presentation! Don't miss your chance to catch Dave's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!
Rubyology 91: SunnyConf - Brian Bommarito Interview
September 10, 2010 10:11Chris Matthieu sat down with Brian Bommarito to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about testing and continuous integration! If you have been interested in getting started with continuous integration, this is the talk to catch! Brian is planning to demonstrate how it works and how to setup your very own CI environment. He makes it sound so simple! Don't miss your chance to catch Brian's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. Yo...
Rubyology 90: SunnyConf - Andre Arko Interview
September 09, 2010 12:02Chris Matthieu interviews Andre Arko regarding his upcoming SunnyConf talk on Bundler. In addition to contributing as a core team member on Bundler, Andre has been instrumental in adding value to Rails 3 through updates to HAML and JQuery Rails. Don't miss your chance to catch Andre's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!
Rubyology 89: SunnyConf - Alex Sharp Interview
September 08, 2010 11:31Chris Matthieu recently interviewed Alex Sharp about his upcoming talk on Refactoring at SunnyConf, Arizona's first Rails Conference. Alex is passionate about refactoring Rails code and has many great techniques to demonstrate ways to simply this important task. Remember: It's better to leave code better than you found it. Register to today for SunnyConf (9/25/2010) before all of the tickets are gone! It's only $100 for a whole day of talks and hack sessions and a free breakfast!
Rubyology 88: SunnyConf - Charlie Nutter Interview
September 07, 2010 18:00Chris Matthieu and Jason Goecke interview Charlie Nutter of JRuby fame about his upcoming talk at SunnyConf, Arizona's first Rails Conference! Get your sneak preview of some of the topics that Charlie will be discussing including JRuby on Google AppEngine and in the enterprise as well as the new JRuby framework for Android devices called Ruboto! Register to today for SunnyConf (9/25/2010) before all of the tickets are gone! It's only $100 for a whole day of talks and hack sessions and a fr...
Rubyology 87: SunnyConf - HashRocket Interview
August 06, 2010 10:29Get your tickets to Phoenix, Arizona's first Rails conference, SunnyConf! Rubyology is the offical podcast of SunnyConf and we are getting an early look into the conference and we are starting with interviewing each of the speakers! In this episode, we get to interview Les Hill and Jim Remsik from HashRocket about their upcoming talk - Sustainably Awesome: How to Build a Team. Hashrocket began as a small four person shop aiming to build products and get rich doing the same. Something ha...
Rubyology 86: Adhearsion
July 15, 2010 15:18Chris Matthieu interviews John Higgins from Voxeo Labs and Ben Klang from Verendus about Adhearsion and AdhearsionConf. Adhearsion is the first fully-featured open source Ruby framework for Asterisk and an easy way to write voice-enabled applications. In the age of the social web, what other technologies are more social than voice? Adhearsion empowers your code to handle and route inbound and outbound phone, VoIP, and Skype calls automatically, just like it handles normal web traffic. J...
Rubyology 85: Teleku, cloud telecom
March 03, 2010 15:06Chris Matthieu introduces his new cloud-based telecom start-up written in Ruby on Rails called Teleku.com! Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Using simple XML and JSON responses in your HTTP Web pages, you can deliver sophisticated interactive voice response (IVR) telephony applications in as little...
Rubyology 84: Heroku Addons with Oren Teich
October 31, 2009 12:01Above is a link to our latest podcast, led by the one-and-only Chris Matthieu. You can grab this one as a direct download, though bear in mind streaming a raw mp3 without a decent broadband connection may take some time, so always give it time to buffer, as it's a shame to have it stop and start throughout playback. That being said, we think it's great to be able to offer visitors our audio ramblings on the site directly - sometimes, downloading a large mp3 isn't what you'd like on a Friday n...
Rubyology 83: Ruby IDE/Editor Deathmatch
August 10, 2009 15:12Roundtable discussion on Ruby IDEs and text editors. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, Benjamin Smith. (OpenRain web development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version
Rubyology 82: Railsconf 2009 Final Day
May 12, 2009 20:52Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap the final day of Railsconf 2009.
Rubyology 81: Day 2 of Railsconf 2009
May 09, 2009 20:42Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 2 of Railsconf 2009. On location.
Rubyology 80: Heroku Interview, RailsConf 2009
May 09, 2009 09:42The Heroku founders were interviewed at Railsconf 2009. We discuss their platform, niche, and business including how they came up with their name. This is probably one of our best interviews yet - hope we are getting the hang of it!
Rubyology 79: Day 1 of Railsconf 2009
May 06, 2009 10:29Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 1 of Railsconf 2009. DHH's keynote, tutorial, and sessions recap includes: Sinatra/Jruby on Rails/JQuery Tutorials UI Fundamentals Scaling Rails by Phusion Ruby Heroes Awards 2009 Rails Engine BlueRidge Hope you enjoy it!
Rubyology 78: ruby-processing, Heroku, S3 analytics.
April 08, 2009 17:19Roundtable discussion on 3D GUI development with ruby-processing; Heroku overview and Q&A; AWS S3 analytics. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, remi Taylor. (OpenRain Ruby development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version
Rubyology 77: Ruby In The Enterprise, Part 2
March 08, 2009 17:22Interview with University of Phoenix Senior Software Engineer Aaron K. Hawkins. Enhanced AAC Version
Rubyology 76: Roundtable 3
March 07, 2009 16:36Sinatra webapps and Ruby micro-frameworks. Ruby conference recommendations. Safari 4 Beta, HTML 5 and CSS 3. Participants: Marc Chung, Ben Smith, remi Taylor, Saul Mora, and Preston Lee. (OpenRain Ruby Ninjas) Enhanced AAC Version Google Group
Rubyology 75: Ruby In The Enterprise, Part 1
February 27, 2009 18:21The first in a new series of "enterprise" Ruby developer interviews. Host: Preston Lee, OpenRain Software Guest: Scott Barber, iMemories Guest: Tomasz Stechly, "Large International Bank" Production: 2009.02.25.13.30 Release: 2009.02.27.18.00 Runtime: 21:50.
Rubyology 74: Ruby Roundtable 2
February 24, 2009 22:05Roundtable discussion on Ruby web application scalability and source control trends in the Ruby community. Participants: Preston Lee, remi Taylor, Saul Mora. Episodes are now in high-quality stereo and alternatively available in enhanced AAC with as-they-happen links. http://rubyology.s3.amazonaws.com/rubyology-74-high.m4a Episodes download speeds should now be greatly improved. Show notes: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyology/browse_frm/thread/68be10d1b4478281
Rubyology 73: Ruby Roundtable
February 08, 2009 11:25The cool Ruby hackers from OpenRain (http://OpenRain.com) forwarded us a recording from their recent Ruby developer roundtable. If you are interested Javascript and Rails, you'll love this episode! UPDATE: You can now contribute to the Rubyology podcast by participating in supplementary discussion, sharing relevant links, giving show feedback and suggesting Ruby-related topics for future episodes by joining the new Rubyology Google Group.
Rubyology 72: JotBot
January 27, 2009 18:14David Koontz gave an awesome presentation at this week's Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting. The topic was lessons learned on building a Ruby-based, cross-platform, thick-client application - JotBot. This time keeping application truly looks like a native Mac application. Check it out at http://www.getjotbot.com/
Rubyology 71: Avi Bryant
September 21, 2008 23:36Chris Matthieu interviews one of Ruby's thought leaders, Avi Bryant. You may know him from Maglev or DabbleDB. Avi's good at pulling rabbits out of hats. I hope that you enjoy this podcast. For more information on Maglev visit http://maglev.gemstone.com or DabbleDB at http://dabbledb.com.
Rubyology 70: Journeta
September 13, 2008 12:28Welcome back code monkeys! This week's cast covers Journeta (http://rubyforge.org/projects/journeta). Journeta is a zero-configuration-required, peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery and communications library for Ruby applications on closed networks, by OpenRain, LLC (http://OpenRain.com). This Ruby gem was written by and presented to the Phoenix Ruby user group (http://rubyaz.org) by Preston Lee, Founder and President of OpenRain (http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/336)
Rubyology 69: Adhearsion
August 24, 2008 21:59Chris Matthieu interviewed Jay Phillips, the founder of the Adhearsion project. Adhearsion is an open source framework that, in simplest terms, improves the way the world writes "voice" applications. It rests above a popular open-source platform called Asterisk, abstracting its many pain points and domain complexity. This framework turns Ruby developers into telecom engineers. Jay's blog is http://jicksta.com/ and his project can be found at http://adhearsion.pbwiki.com/ or http://github.c...
Rubyology 68: Ruby2Ruby
August 16, 2008 23:54Marc Chung from OpenRain.com demos Ruby2Ruby at the Phoenix Ruby User Group (http://rubyaz.org/). Ruby2ruby provides a means of generating pure ruby code easily from ParseTree‘s Sexps. This makes making dynamic language processors much easier in ruby than ever before. Marc also covers javascript firebug tricks and beanstalk message queue handling in his demonstration.
Rubyology 67: Powerset Stars 2 of 2
July 11, 2008 20:38Here is the finale of the interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. I think that you will enjoy it.
Rubyology 66: Powerset Stars 1 of 2
July 05, 2008 16:45This is the first of a two-part interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. These Ruby, Rails, and Erlang rockstars are the developers of fuzed, an Erlang-based frontend cluster for web apps, and maintainers of Erlectricity which exposes Ruby to Erlang and vice versa (among other amazing technologies). Both of these innovative developers work for Powerset, a natural language search engine for the Internet.
Rubyology 65: Rails Envy
June 29, 2008 01:38Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interview Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy.com. This is a must hear behind the scenes show with some content but mostly humor. I tried to edit 8 VoIP recordings together to create something that was somewhat cohesive. Gregg and Jason are smart, funny, and quick guys - but many of the jokes had to be deleted. We appreciate their good humor and candidness. Check out http://railsenvy.com for current rails news.
Rubyology 64: Ezra Zygmuntowicz
June 22, 2008 17:23Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interviewed Ezra Zygmuntowicz, the co-founder of Engine Yard! This 1 hour and 20 minute interview goes deep inside Ezra's mind. We covered his early programming days where he almost selected Python instead of Ruby but then came to his senses. We also discussed the early days of Engine Yard as well as the present infrastructure and the totally awesome new projects including: MERB, Rubinius, and Vertebra. Ezra is a really cool thought-leader in the Ruby/Rai...
Rubyology 63: New and Improved!
June 12, 2008 01:06Attention code monkeys: We've been hacked and there's no turning back. Steven Bristol from LessEverything.com has joined Chris Matthieu as co-host of the Rubyology Show. It's only appropriate that we interview the new monkey master before allowing him to interview others. In this episode we cover LessEverything's products and services, RailsConf 2008 favs, and dive deep on Rails 2.1, Mod Apache, and other surprises. Show links include: http://www.luclatulippe.com/ http://ruby.gemstone.c...
Rubyology 62 - RailsConf 2008 Update
June 04, 2008 00:49I was lucky enough to attend this year's RailsConf 2008 and met many new friends and listened to many cool new ideas and discussions. Here is a link to the Vertebra solution presented by EngineYard's Ezra - http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/06/02/introducing-vertebra
Rubyology 61: Zyps
April 17, 2008 20:19Jay McGavren, Phoenix Ruby Programmer Extraordinaire and all around good guy, has developed a super cool game library in Ruby called Zyps. This screencast demonstrates the following: * set up an Environment * place Creatures in the Environment * create Behaviors and add them to Creatures * create Actions for Behaviors to initiate * limit when Behaviors occur with Conditions * add EnvironmentalFactors such as wind "sudo gem install zyps" to install, or visit: http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps ...
Rubyology 60: ServiceReg
April 06, 2008 19:59Hey code monkeys! I built a proof-of-concept site for a RESTful service registry that is actually a RESTful API API. It's called www.ServiceReg.com and the site (which also functions as an API) allows developers to register RESTful Web services that can be used as a simple URL (including the POST, PUT, and DELETE verb-based queries). These simple URLs can be used in application, mashups, or even directly from the browser's address bar.
Rubyology 59: Amazon EC2
February 20, 2008 21:42Hey code monkeys! Marc Chung from OpenRain.com gave a funtabulous presentation at this week's AZ on Rails user group meeting on deploying rails applications on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) and also demonstrated chaining tasks together in the cloud to work on a common goal (like calculating pi) using MPI (Message Passing Interface Standard). This is a MUST hear discussion. Thanks to Derek Neighbors for putting together show notes and thanks to Marc for sharing his experience with ...
Rubyology 58: February Update
February 17, 2008 13:25Welcome back! Today we cover upcoming conference updates. Ruby 1.9 update. Heroku introduction. Wuby vs. Thin -> Wuby Wins! Enterprise SOA discussion REST vs. SOAP -> REST Wins! Interview with Theo Beack, Deputy CTO BEA - Ruby involved in their virtualization container strategies - more to come. Great Amazon service and twitter links below: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.amazonwebservices.com%2Fconnect%2Fentry.jspa%3FexternalID%3D1182%26ref%3Dfeatured http://www...
Rubyology 57: S5/P8
January 23, 2008 07:39Check out my presentation at the Phoenix Rails User Group meeting on S5 and P8. Both are interesting technologies for presentations.
Rubyology 56: Active Resource
December 16, 2007 14:43ActiveResource allows you to interact with a RESTful database in the sky. Think about it for a moment... Rails 1.2 and 2.0 provide RESTful services automatically through scaffolding. Active Resource provides access to these RESTful database interfaces automatically! It's amazing!
Rubyology 55: Wuby Web Templates
December 08, 2007 16:43This screencast is a continuation of the episode 54 but we will be applying a web design to a Wuby application. Watch this - it's even easier than Rails!
Rubyology 54: Rails Web Templates
December 08, 2007 16:36A Rubyology listener wrote in asking about quick ways to add web templates to Ruby on Rails sites. This screen casts covers selecting a web template from openwebdesign.org and applying it to a Rails 2.0 scaffold site.
Rubyology 53: Ruby OSA
November 24, 2007 11:16RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. Check out my demo on controlling iTunes with Ruby and even my Wuby web application to control iTunes! Justin Williams of Mac Zealots give a great introduction to Ruby OSA as well. http://maczealots.com/tutorials/rubyosa/
Rubyology 52: JRuby @ JUG
November 15, 2007 22:58If this isn't entertaining I don't know what is! David Koontz, President of Rising Tide Software (http://www.risingtidesoftware.com), gave a speech in front of 50 Java professionals at the Phoenix Java User Group (http://www.phxjug.org/) and convinced them all to switch to JRuby! I tell you, Sun should hire this guy. He knows his stuff (both java and ruby) - and he has charisma!