The Ruby Racer

Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode!


• Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC


• Charles Lowell from the FrontSide


• The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby


• The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby


• Mustache - logicless views from defunkt


• Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache


• Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine


• Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”


• JSON templates Precursor to Mustache


• Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework


• Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig


• Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!