The Good Rubyist Challenge

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4. The Good Rubyist
   Challenge
   by Schneems
   

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5. Challenge:
   

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6. (verb) to invite
   someone to
   engage in a
   contest
   

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7. To be a good
   Rubyist
   

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8. You must best
   yourself
   

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9. They
   Call me
   @Schneems
   

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10. Ruby
    Schneems
    

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11. Ruby
    Python
    

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13. What would
    you say you
    “do” here?
    

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14. Maintain
    buildpack
    

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15. Handle Ruby
    ticket
    escalations
    

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16. Open
    Source
    Software
    Contribution
    

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17. Write and
    maintain
    docs
    

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18. My spanish
    story
    

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19. I’m here to
    deliver the
    truths!
    

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20. First
    

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21. Close your
    Laptops
    

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22. Unless you’re
    commenting
    on rails/rails
    issues
    

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23. How do you
    learn Ruby?
    

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24. How do you
    learn
    Anything?
    

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25. You must
    want to write
    Ruby
    

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26. People do not
    want to use
    tools
    

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27. People want
    to build
    

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28. No one wants
    to Hammer
    

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29. They want to
    build a house
    

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30. They learn to
    use a tool to
    accomplish a
    goal
    

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31. Adjunct
    Professor
    

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32. Tired of
    lectures
    

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33. timesHigherEducation.co.uk
    

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34. news.yahoo.com
    

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35. Speaking at
    conferences
    works
    Source: me
    

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36. Learning
    requires a
    feedback
    cycle
    

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37. Want
    Try
    Do
    Reflect
    

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38. Most of
    learning
    focuses on
    the how
    

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39. Focus on the
    “how-come”
    

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40. Course time:
    

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41. Does anyone
    know?
    

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43. So
    Crates
    

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44. Hated
    Lectures
    

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45. Socratic
    Method
    

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46. 1. Find an
    Argument
    

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47. “TDD
    Is 

    DEAD
    

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48. 2. Make a
    challenge
    statement
    

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49. Panda
    Schneems
    Used
    TDD
    Yesterday
    “
    

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50. 3. Change
    Statement to
    be true for
    challenge
    

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51. TDD
    isn’t the only
    software
    development
    method
    “
    

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52. 4. Challenge
    the changed
    statement
    with a ???
    

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53. Can you
    write
    good
    software
    without TDD?
    “
    

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54. Repeat
    

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55. Truth: a
    statement
    that holds up
    to all scrutiny
    

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56. Socrates
    and
    the Oracle
    

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57. Nope
    

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58. Nope
    

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59. Yup
    

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60. “Socrates is
    the wisest
    man in
    Greece”
    

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62. “Yeah,
    well that’s
    just like,
    your opinion
    

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63. “the only
    person aware
    of his own
    ignorance”
    

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64. Today, we
    will be
    Socrates
    

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65. Become
    aware of our
    ignorance
    

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66. Who here is a
    Great
    developer?
    

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67. Who here is a
    Good
    developer?
    

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68. Challenges of
    a good
    developer
    

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69. Level 1
    !
    

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70. Read
    Ruby
    

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73. Write
    Ruby
    

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74. Online
    tutorials
    

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76. Challenge:

    have a goal
    

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77. Build the next
    Facebook for
    dogs
    

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78. Build the next
    instagram for
    grandmas
    

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79. Build the next
    whatsapp for
    wallabies
    

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80. We don’t
    learn by
    doing
    

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81. We learn by
    questioning
    what we’re
    doing
    

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82. We learn by
    questioning
    what we’re
    doing
    

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83. Sound
    Familiar?
    

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84. When you
    have a goal
    you’re always
    asking:
    

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85. How can I use
    this
    

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86. Challenge:
    Be Weird
    

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87. Write
    Ruby
    

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88. Write a
    project just to
    throw it away
    

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89. Put it on
    github
    anyway
    

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90. Programmers
    are
    craftsman
    

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91. Sharpen your
    skills through
    play
    

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92. Level 2
    !
    

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93. Programmers
    are
    social
    

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94. It’s true
    

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95. Writing code
    is sharing
    logic
    

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96. Challenge:
    share logic
    with humans
    

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97. Join
    A
    Usergroup
    

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98. Don’t forget
    

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100. Austin on Rails:
     2 presentations
     &
     “socilization
     practice”
     

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101. Austin.rb
     1 presentation
     & code kata
     

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102. Who has ever
     done a code
     kata?
     

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103. codeKata.com
     

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104. Example:
     Find all
     anagrams in
     a sentence
     

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105. Example:
     Convert roman
     numerals to
     integers
     

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107. Doing katas
     with real people
     gives you new
     insight.
     

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108. Doing katas
     with real people
     gives you new
     insight.
     

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109. Impostor
     Syndrome
     

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110. When you feel
     like you’re
     not a real
     programmer
     

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111. I suffered this
     for 2 years
     before showing
     anyone code
     

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112. Surprised to
     find out no
     one called me
     “stupid”
     

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113. No one called
     me “stupid”
     

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114. Other people
     made syntax
     mistakes too
     

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116. After 5+ years
     of going to
     user groups
     

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117. I’m worried I
     don’t have
     impostor
     syndrome
     anymore
     

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118. Just kidding
     

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119. Level 3
     !
     

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120. Who has ever:
     

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121. Written Ruby
     code?
     

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122. Keep hand
     raised if
     you’ve:
     

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123. Opened an
     issue on an
     OSS repo (a
     PR counts)
     

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124. Submitted a
     pull request to
     an open source
     library?
     

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125. Had a pull
     request
     accepted
     

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126. Had a pull
     request
     accepted
     

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127. Challenge:
     Give
     Forwards to
     open source
     

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128. A good
     rubyist
     makes the
     future better
     

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129. How do you
     help?
     

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130. Open issues
     when you
     find bugs
     

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131. Include:
     version
     numbers
     

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132. Include:
     Expected
     behavior
     

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133. Include:
     Actual
     behavior
     

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134. Include:
     Reproduction
     instructions
     

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135. Read issues
     

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136. How many
     issues are
     open on rails/
     rails now?
     

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137. 600+
     

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138. Challenge:
     Write
     comments on
     issues
     

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139. How?
     

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140. CodeTriage
     .com
     

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141. Challenge:
     Comment on
     an issue
     

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142. Challenge:
     Write docs for
     a Repo
     

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143. How?
     

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144. DocsDoctor
     .org
     

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146. Reading docs
     

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147. Writing
     comments
     

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148. The path to
     OSS core is
     paved with
     issues and docs
     

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149. Disastrous
     consequences
     

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150. You’ll become
     a better
     developer
     

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151. You’ll learn
     things you
     never knew
     about your tools
     

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152. Even if you’re
     not ready
     today
     

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153. At bare
     minimum
     

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154. Click
     

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155. Pick
     

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156. Send them
     <3
     

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157. Even OSS
     developers
     get impostor
     syndrome
     

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158. Giving
     developer
     love turns
     into OSS code
     

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159. Be greedy:
     Give to your
     future self
     

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160. My entire salary
     for the has come
     from working on
     OSS software
     

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161. Level 4
     !
     

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162. Bet you
     thought I was
     done
     

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163. What comes
     after being a
     good
     Rubyist?
     

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164. Rust?
     

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165. Go?
     

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166. Node?
     

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167. Swift?
     

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168. Nope
     

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169. There’s no need
     to leave Ruby to
     work with other
     languages
     

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170. Challenge:
     Learn how
     Ruby works
     

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172. Challenge:
     Contribute to
     Ruby
     (ask @Zzak)
     

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173. It doesn’t
     even have to
     be MRI
     

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176. Level 42
     !
     

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177. Let’s ask
     ourselves
     

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178. Can we be
     better Ruby
     programmers
     ?
     

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179. Can I
     challenge
     myself today?
     

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180. You can never
     know it all
     

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181. By following
     the pursuit
     

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182. We’re all
     good
     Rubyists
     

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183. Questions
     @schneems
     

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