Ruby Rogues
291 RR Building Ruby Gems with Brandon Hilkert
December 21, 2016
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Episode 291
291 RR Building Ruby Gems with Brandon Hilkert
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00:30 - Introducing Brandon Hilkert
- Build a Ruby Gem 25% off for Ruby Rogues’ listeners!
- Github
- Blog/Website
3:55 - Building gems and the community
8:30 - Brandon’s process for creating gems (for beginners)
14:45 - Testing gems
17:00 - Writing the whole system into a gem vs breaking it up
26:15 - Why build Suckerpunch?
33:50 - What does it take to publish a gem?
- Ruby Gems
35:45 - “Gotchas” to publishing a gem
40:00 - Releasing gems that the community doesn’t need
Picks:
ThinkGeek (Jerome)
Facebook Lookalike Audiences (Charles)
Mastermind groups (Charles)
Think and Grow Rich by Dr. Napoleon Hill (Charles)
Bark app (Brandon)
People socks (Brandon)
The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (Brandon)
Special Guest: Brandon Hilkert.