Panel:

• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards
• Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Olivier Lacan

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Olivier Lacan about his blog post Why Won’t Bundle Update? and related topics. Olivier was originally a designer/web developer who fell into Ruby around 2010 and has been working on Code School, which is sadly in the process of being shut down. They talk about what package managers are, where you would you see them normally in code, dependencies, gems, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Olivier intro
• Sass and Haml
• Code School
• Why they are shutting down Code School
• Transferring expertise to PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App
• What is a package manager?
• Where would you see a package manager?
• Reusable code
• More structured and sustainable process
• Conversations that helps the community mature
• Ruby Gems
• What’s acceptable across communities
• Dependencies
• Having collaborative conversations
• Yarn
• Transitive dependencies
• Authentication
• Dependencies as degrees of liability
• Taking on risk
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ruby
• Code School
• Sass
• Haml
• PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App Talk
• Ruby Gems
• Why Won’t Bundle Update?
• Rails
• JavaScript
• Yarn
• @olivierlacan
• OlivierLacan.com
• Human Errors Talk
• KeepAChangeLog.com
• Olivier’s GitHub

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

Picks:

Dave

• Cobra Kai
• Oculus Go

David

• GitHub Checks

Eric

• StickerMule
• The Handmaid’s Tale

Catherine

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Dear White People

Oliver

• Rising Strong by Brené Brown
• What is Health Justice? by Tim Faust

Special Guest: Olivier Lacan.