Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor.
@kmilden it actually wasn't all that expensive. I already had 4GB and the additional 8GB was just $200
A Rails Communique
December 28th, 2008
After staying up until 5am last night, I slept in a bit this morning. I had lunch with Koz, his wife, and Ezra, and we got to talking some more about the issues we’ve been addressing over the past few days (we had a nice discussion about router recognition and generation, and various techniques we’ve both been using to improve performance of large route sets).
- After lunch, I spent some more time thinking about how to further clean up ActionController and ActionView, and with the help of Josh and Pratik, who both recently did some refactoring work in ActionView, came up with a good plan of attack. I’ll post more details once I have some code to show, but the bottom line is that it should reduce the rendering pipeline down to a few hash lookups and a send. We already got close to this in Merb, but the recent work Josh did on ActionView provides a nice foundation for knocking this one out of the park.
- Michael has continued his work on ActiveSupport, and is almost finished with a way of requiring ActiveSupport that will include only the barebones so that it can be used for third-party libraries. In particular, he would like to move Templater over from Extlib to ActiveSupport once the minimalist version has been released (the minimalist package now uses less resources than Extlib). Some details from Michael’s testing.
- Daniel has been working on porting the Merb bootloader system over to Rails’ initializers, which should be 100% backward compatible but more flexible, especially for plugins.
Maybe one of these days we’ll take a day off. I hope to have some exciting code for you tomorrow!
atmos, Posted December 28, 2008, 4:16 am
\m/
Piotr Sarnacki, Posted December 28, 2008, 6:05 am
Great work!
You’re one of most productive programmers I’ve ever seen
But don’t push too hard. Everybody needs rest
nikc, Posted December 28, 2008, 7:11 am
it’s starting to sound like this is an apple/next style merger
donri, Posted December 28, 2008, 3:14 pm
You deserve a day off, man.
Elise, Posted January 7, 2009, 6:36 am
Out of curiosity, regarding plugins: will Rails 3 use merb-like plugin gems ?
(backward compatibility aside)