Geoffrey Grosenbach

Biography

Geoffrey Grosenbach is the host of the acclaimed Ruby on Rails Podcast. His Gruff graphing library for Ruby is in wide use even though it has not convinced the Ruby elite that he is a legitimate Rubyist. He’s working on that by donating large sums of cash to the Seattle.rb which will be used to fly in noteworthy Rubyists to lecture in Seattle over the coming year.

You can read about some of his open source projects in the essential Ruby Cookbook.

He teaches Ruby on Rails workshops all over the world with Carson Workshops. You can keep up on his current endeavors and Rails epiphanies at his blog, Nuby on Rails or contact him via the Topfunky Corporation.

Blog

The Joy of Local Mailing Lists

November 24 2006

Sometimes I feel like a slacker. I don’t subscribe to Ruby-Talk or any of the official Rails mailing lists. I just don’t have time to read 500 messages a day! I do lurk on several local Ruby mailing lists. The traffic is usually smaller and the content is top notch. Here are… read more

Test Tidbits

October 30 2006

In preparation for two Ruby on Rails workshops in Sydney, Australia in a few weeks, I’ve discovered a few testing tidbits. Test Timer Some of my tests were very slow, but I didn’t know which ones were the slowest. I wrote a minor hack to Test::Unit that prints a report of how… read more

Rails Full Stack Memory Usage, with Graphs!

July 19 2006

How much memory do you need to run a Rails app? A few months ago I moved my Typo-based blog to a Virtual Private Server. A VPS is a server that is shared with a few other sites. You are guaranteed a certain amount of RAM and have root access to… read more

Wild and Crazy Metaprogramming with Camping

June 14 2006

I try to expand my knowledge of Ruby by reading code from other developers I admire. In the past few weeks, that has meant reading the meager source of Camping, Why the Lucky Stiff’s tiny website framework. It also helped to learn by writing a test framework for Camping. It works… read more

Go Solo as a Fulltime Rails Developer

May 12 2006

Hello, Rubyists! I’m Geoffrey Grosenbach and I’ll be posting here from time to time. You might remember me from the Ruby on Rails Podcast or from my graphing library, Gruff. I’ll be in New York and San Francisco in a few weeks teaching Rails workshops for Carson Workshops and hope to… read more