Build more gems

An impassioned plea to the BathRuby conference to build more gems so that we can look better than Node.js/npm in the numbers game.

We wrote a gem live and you can see it here: https://rubygems.org/gems/is_even

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1. BUILD MORE GEMS
2. Phil Nash @philnash http:/ /philna.sh philnash@twilio.com
3. WE HAVE A PROBLEM
4. RUBY ISN'T COOL ANYMORE
5. WHY?
6. THE NUMBERS AREN'T GOING UP ENOUGH
7. NODE.JS
8. NPM
9. NPM IS MAKING US LOOK BAD
11. The numbers Ruby Node.js Packages 115,566 250,796 Downloads 7,691,140,671 3,787,604,159 in the last month
12. WE KNOW WHY THOUGH
13. r e q u i r e ( " i s - e v e n " ) ;
14. r e q u i r e ( " i s - o d d " ) ; r e q u i r e ( " i s - n u m b e r " ) ;
16. WHO'S BUILT A GEM BEFORE?
17. LET'S BUILD ONE NOW!
18. Generate a gem $ b u n d l e g e m i s _ e v e n
19. Write the code # l i b / i s _ e v e n . r b r e q u i r e " i s _ e v e n / v e r s i o n " m o d u l e I s E v e n d e f s e l f . w e l l _ i s _ i t ? ( n u m b e r ) n u m b e r . e v e n ? e n d e n d 0 1 . 0 2 . 0 3 . 0 4 . 0 5 . 0 6 . 0 7 . 0 8 .
20. Update the gemspec s p e c . s u m m a r y = " T e l l s y o u i f a n u m b e r i s e v e n " s p e c . d e s c r i p t i o n = " T e l l s y o u i f a n u m b e r i s e v e n " s p e c . h o m e p a g e = " h t t p : / / p h i l n a . s h " 0 1 . 0 2 . 0 3 .
21. Update the gemspec 2 We're pushing to Rubygems, so remove the a l l o w e d _ p u s h _ h o s t metadata i f s p e c . r e s p o n d _ t o ? ( : m e t a d a t a ) s p e c . m e t a d a t a [ ' a l l o w e d _ p u s h _ h o s t ' ] = " T O D O : S e t t o ' h t t p : / / m y e l s e r a i s e " R u b y G e m s 2 . 0 o r n e w e r i s r e q u i r e d t o p r o t e c t a g a i n s t p e n d 0 1 . 0 2 . 0 3 . 0 4 . 0 5 .
22. Release the gem $ g e m b u i l d i s _ e v e n . g e m s p e c $ g e m p u s h i s _ e v e n - 0 . 1 . 0 . g e m
23. But seriously • Building my first gem helped me learn Ruby
24. bitly
25. But seriously • Building my first gem helped me learn Ruby • Extracting gems from apps reduced repetition
26. envyable
27. But seriously • Building my first gem helped me learn Ruby • Extracting gems from apps reduced repetition • Creating new gems helped developers use Twilio
28. twiml_template
29. BUILD MORE GEMS!
31. Disclaimer I'm not really advocating for the creation of loads of crap gems. Make useful gems, make gems you'd want to use, write tests. No Node.js developers were hurt in the making of this presentation. No Node.js modules were hurt in the making of this presentation. Well, maybe some Node.js modules' feelings were hurt, but they will recover. Ruby is awesome. You are all awesome.
32. Thanks! @philnash http:/ /philna.sh philnash@twilio.com