In this episode, I talk with Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen from the Softies on Rails blog, and James Avery about the Ruby on Rails web framework and what Alt.NET can learn from it.

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We discuss the following:

Ruby on Rails Softies on Rails blog Rails for .NET Developers IronRuby Learn a new language each year Domain Specific Languages Hacker Mentality Sneaking Ruby into the Enterprise Rake Rails’ “Sweet Spot” Separation of Concerns Test Driven Development Agile Mindset Writing the book Opinionated Software JRuby Making Open Source contributions Importance of software documentation