Episode 297: 297: The Functional Rubyist with Joe Leo
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes
Joe Leo is the CEO of Def Method, an agile Ruby software consultancy, and the co-author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition. He and Brittany discussed functional programming in Ruby and their thoughts on the Ruby community after Rubyconf 2019.
Links for this episode:
- Def Method
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition
- The Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 Slides
- Partial Function Application | Joe Leo on Ruby Tapas
- Joe Leo III (@jleo3) | Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
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