Ruby's Present and Future

I was already looking forward to our January meeting with Shashank Date. I've chatted with him in the past about Ruby and the book Ruby in a Nutshell.

This morning I was catching up on my reading and I saw ringing praise for a talk Shashank had done at a recent Ruby conference.

The presentation I enjoyed the most was Shashank Date and his son Rutvik demonstrating Lego® Mindstorms™ and its development environment on a Windows PC. Shashank wanted to see if he could make it as easy to program Mindstorms in Ruby as from the Lego IDE. He also wanted to let people develop and test their code for the robot on a PC without an IR tower attached. (The IR tower is an infrared communications tower used to download bytecode to the robot.)

I didn't know Shashank was a famous Rubyite! Now I'm even more excited about next month. You can read the whole article.