291 RR Building Ruby Gems with Brandon Hilkert

00:30 - Introducing Brandon Hilkert

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• Twitter
• Github
• Blog/Website

3:55 - Building gems and the community 8:30 - Brandon’s process for creating gems (for beginners) 14:45 - Testing gems 17:00 - Writing the whole system into a gem vs breaking it up 26:15 - Why build Suckerpunch?

• Blog post

33:50 - What does it take to publish a gem?

• Ruby Gems

35:45 - “Gotchas” to publishing a gem 40:00 - Releasing gems that the community doesn’t need Picks: ThinkGeek (Jerome) Facebook Lookalike Audiences (Charles) Mastermind groups (Charles) Think and Grow Rich by Dr. Napoleon Hill (Charles) Bark app (Brandon) People socks (Brandon) The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (Brandon)Special Guest: Brandon Hilkert.

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