Greater Than Code

165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen

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01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.

03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming

05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is

  • Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar
  • There is No Spec
  • There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work

    • 07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out

    • Penelope’s Ideas

      • 12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program

      • Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem

        • 18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking

        20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration

        22:44 - Major Challenges Faced

        • Finding Time
        • No Major Challenges
        • Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming
        • This is Not a Gem

          • 25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt

          28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt

          30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback

          • There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby

            • 34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs

            37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences

            • Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People
            • Speakers Can Get Their Start
            • Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers
            • Struggling to Get Speakers
            • Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over
            • $$ - Hard to Break Even

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