The Ruby Community with Marty Haught

“Every time I’ve gone to a conference, there’s always been some new idea or some new way of working that I’ve been exposed to.”

Marty Haught is a director of Ruby Central, a nonprofit dedicated to the support and advocacy of the worldwide ruby community. Ruby Central also hosts the RubyConf and RailsConf software conferences.

Questions

• When did you start working with Ruby?
• What lead to Ruby groups having a different ethos than other language user groups?
• How did RubyCentral get started, and what is its goal?
• What is the value of going to developer conferences?
• How can the programmer community encourage more people to become programmers?
• Has the emergence and new popularity of JavaScript displaced Ruby on Rails?

Links

• Ruby Central
• RubyConf
• RailsConf
• MINASWAN
• Marty’s personal page
  

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