Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Dave Kimura

Special Guest: 

Amir Rajan

In this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Amir Rajan. Amir is a game developer and is the most successful Ruby game developer. Amir is also the owner/CEO of RubyMotion. RubyMotion allows you to write Ruby for the Mac platform. Amir will be speaking at Ruby Dev Summit this fall.

Amir talks about being apart of not web part of Ruby and the innovation including mobile. The panel discusses building application for mobile in Ruby Motion and the OS platform. The panel also discusses the easy of building with RubyMotion and how the language has come along way since Mac Ruby and others. Also, how to get started and all installations required to build with RubyMotion.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Ruby - not on the web
Mobile Ruby
Google and Android don’t provide the same thing for app building.
Mac Ruby 
Language Translation compiler
LLVM bit code - Low-level virtual machine
How RubyMotion works with LLVM
Complier backends
LLVM Kaleidoscope
Understand one level below Ruby
Ruby Source code 
Learning RubyMotion - Red Potion, AF Motion, Bubble Wrap
Masonry
Understanding Apple’s documentation
Ruby Motion does Android
Why pick RubyMotion?
and much much more.


Links: 


We are the designated survivors/digging into Ruby: Heredoc pull request
LLVM Kaleidoscope
RubyMotion
Twich - Game Development with Ruby
Amir Rajan
@amirranjan


Picks:

Amir


Nier: Automata
Idle Thumbs Podcast
Literate Gamer Podcast (favorite show)


Dave


Rerun


Chuck


Ruby Gems
FriendlyID
Ice_Cube
Recurring_Select

Special Guest: Amir Rajan.