Program more in Ruby

Giving up. I don’t have time to program anymore.

We’ve been working Ruby into a lot of our projects here at work. It’s been working out really well.

I would have to agree that it’s a language that doesn’t really get in the way of your thought process about a problem. It’s particularly well-suited to agile development methods, since the language is so dynamic.

I think one of the biggest advantages has been the great utilities and frameworks for web development, unit testing, internationalization, and embedded documentation. Ruby makes a lot of the good habits so easy. In that way, I think it’s definitely helped to make me a better software developer.

I guess this goal is too vague. I’ve certainly gotten to the point where I’m programming more in Ruby (with r43, rupcoming (RSN), and some other things), but until I’m programming in Ruby 24×7 (which I really don’t want to be doing) I could still say I’m not done with the goal.

I think I’ll call this accomplished and try to stake out some more achievable goals related to this.

(Hat tip to Brian Wisti for the zen slap I needed to realize this.)

Well, I’ve been working on this in conjunction with a couple of other goals, and I’m happy to be making some visible progress. This morning, I released an early version of r43 (a Ruby implementation of the 43 Things API). If you want to play with it, check out http://rubyforge.org/projects/r43/

helps to become a better programmer. Besides, the Ruby community is very nice and helpful, and there are a lot of excellent programmers.

I already do a lot in Ruby, for private projects. The next big step is to get others (friends, companies) to use Ruby more.

Damn straight!