ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Penelope Phippen makes Rubyfmt, and was previously a lead maintainer of the RSpec testing framework. She’s been writing Ruby for just about a decade, and still remembers 1.8.6. She and Brittany discuss Rspec, Ruby Central and her thoughts on the Ruby community.
Links for this episode:
- RSpec: Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby
- Ruby Central
- What is Processor? Conference Talk
- penelopezone/rubyfmt: Ruby Autoformatter! - GitHub
- Upcoming NYCrb Meetup with Penelope
- Penelope's Personal Site
- Penelope Phippen (@penelope_zone) on Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
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