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The Ruby world is nuts

June 8th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Apparently they started out using God, but switched to Bluepill due to its ability to monitor child processes, such as things spawned by Unicorn.

From Episode 166 of The Ruby Show.

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  1. mike mainguy
    June 8th, 2011 at 18:58 | #1
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    I often wonder if this is why ruby is often disregarded for “serious software”. Explaining that I’m using cucumber and gherkin for testing may confuse the uninitiated and perhaps lead them to suspect I’m just a little bit crazy.

  2. shev
    June 8th, 2011 at 21:43 | #2
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    Just because some developers use silly names …

    Others use non-silly names. But it’s boring to refer to them, I guess.

  3. Fábio
    June 9th, 2011 at 04:17 | #3
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    @shev I’d rather silly names than silly code.

  4. David R. MacIver
    June 9th, 2011 at 09:58 | #4
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    @Fábio Ruby isn’t exactly short of the latter either…

  5. Rob Desbois
    June 9th, 2011 at 12:36 | #5
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    @David – what non-niche language is? ;-)

  6. Tres
    June 9th, 2011 at 17:41 | #6
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    @Mike I read your sentence as “Explaining that I’m using cucumber and gherkin for testing may confuse the uninebriated…”

  7. David Hines
    June 9th, 2011 at 18:24 | #7
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    @mike mainguy But at least it’s used for Serious Business

  8. P
    June 9th, 2011 at 22:40 | #8
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    At least you’re not using BouncyCastle.

  9. Jan Stępień
    June 10th, 2011 at 15:06 | #9
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    FWIW, there’s a pull request waiting which adds child processes monitoring to God.

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