{"id":391,"date":"2012-08-10T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/?p=391"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:14:02","slug":"today-i-met-matz-the-creator-of-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Today I met Matz. The creator of Ruby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is might not be a big deal for others who have been going to the lone star ruby\u00a0conference\u00a0for a while, but I got to finally hear Matz today.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped a quick picture along with two of my team members from HomeAway. I am the guy on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Matz used his keynote to talk about features to come in the next version of ruby such as \u00a0scoped monkey patching, module prepending, lazy mapping, and ruby keyword arguments.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned mruby, that is coming soon. \u00a0I checked out the source and ran the tests. Here is the source link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mruby\/mruby\/\">https:\/\/github.com\/mruby\/mruby\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>download the source and run &#8216;make&#8217; and &#8216;make test&#8217;. \u00a0You will then find mruby, mirb in the bin directory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_392\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"size-large wp-image-392\" title=\"LoneStarRubyConference\" src=\"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James,Alan, and myself with Matz.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is might not be a big deal for others who have been going to the lone star ruby\u00a0conference\u00a0for a while, but I got to finally hear Matz today. I snapped a quick picture along with two of my team members from HomeAway. I am the guy on the right. Matz used his keynote to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottcsims.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}