# Ruby Hero Awards **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 17, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hero-awards/135015 "2008-04-17T06:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
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Hey guys, ``` Some of you may have already heard about this, but I thought I'd ``` post it to this group since there are quite a few people here who probably deserve some recognition and gratitude. ``` This morning we put up the Ruby Hero Awards (http:// ``` [www.RubyHeroes.com](http://www.RubyHeroes.com)). There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or payment for their work. They write educational blogs & tutorials, create plugins & gems, contribute to open source projects, and put on events, and help out people who need assistance on groups like this. ``` Ruby Hero Awards was created to show some gratitude and give these ``` people the recognition they deserve. Hopefully the type of recognition that keeps them doing what they’re doing, and continuing to make our community stronger. ``` So if you want to show some gratitude then take a moment to ``` nominate someone you think is a Ruby Hero [http://www.RubyHeroes.com](http://www.RubyHeroes.com). ``` The winners will be announced on stage at Railsconf next month. ``` Gregg P. [RailsEnvy.com](http://RailsEnvy.com) ---
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Gregg P. wrote: > Hey guys, > ``` > This morning we put up the Ruby Hero Awards (http:// > > ``` > > [www.RubyHeroes.com](http://www.RubyHeroes.com)). There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world > who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or > payment for their work. They write educational blogs & tutorials, > create plugins & gems, contribute to open source projects, and put on > events, and help out people who need assistance on groups like this. Who are those people on the panel? [http://www.rubyheroes.com/panel](http://www.rubyheroes.com/panel) I have to say I recognize maybe only half the names, and I think I’ve been pretty attentive to the Ruby world (though not the Rails section). Are these people active on ruby-talk? There are no bios, no links to any background info. And why announce the results at a Rails conf? Why not at a general Ruby conference? – James B. “Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.” - Voltaire ---
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:43 AM, James B. wrote: > And why announce the results at a Rails conf? Why not at a general > Ruby conference? I also only recognized a few of the panel members (probably the same ones that you did). It’s pretty clearly a Rails thing, and I would assume that’s why they’re announcing it at RailsConf. ---
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On Apr 16, 10:05 pm, Gregg P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > events, and help out people who need assistance on groups like this. > > ``` > Ruby Hero Awards was created to show some gratitude and give these > > ``` > > people the recognition they deserve. Hopefully the type of recognition > that keeps them doing what they’re doing, and continuing to make our > community stronger. > > ``` > So if you want to show some gratitude then take a moment to > > ``` > > nominate someone you think is a Ruby Herohttp://www.RubyHeroes.com. > > ``` > The winners will be announced on stage at Railsconf next month. > > ``` Ooh! Ooh! Can I be a Ruby VILLAIN? It’s always more fun to be the bad guy. Dan ---
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Lyle J. wrote: > > There are no bios, no links to any background info. > > > > And why announce the results at a Rails conf? Why not at a general > > Ruby conference? > > I also only recognized a few of the panel members (probably the same > ones that you did). It’s pretty clearly a Rails thing, and I would > assume that’s why they’re announcing it at RailsConf. In that case, I think I’m going to nominate Zed S… ---
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Daniel B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or > > nominate someone you think is a Ruby Herohttp://www.RubyHeroes.com. > > > > ``` > > The winners will be announced on stage at Railsconf next month. > > > > ``` > > Ooh! Ooh! Can I be a Ruby VILLAIN? It’s always more fun to be the bad > guy. > > Dan You already are a villain, Bergermeister Meisterberger. 🙂 Jamey ---
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On 17 abr, 02:43, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Who are those people on the panel? > > [http://www.rubyheroes.com/panel](http://www.rubyheroes.com/panel) > > I have to say I recognize maybe only half the names, and I think I’ve > been pretty attentive to the Ruby world (though not the Rails section). Let see what Google answers (“ruby ?” % [‘put name here’]) Adam K. : [http://therealadam.com/](http://therealadam.com/) Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby Anthony E. : [http://www.anthonyeden.com/](http://www.anthonyeden.com/) Personal blog, few technicall stuff from Rails and Ruby, nothing deep to take a good look at. Brandon Beacher : [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/7942-brandon-beacher](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/7942-brandon-beacher) Personal blog is out of date (9 months), Is the guy who coded the RubyHeroes site… Bruce W. : [http://codefluency.com/](http://codefluency.com/) Rails fame, Validatable all fame, father of the validations in projects like DataMapper and Sequel (but not the implementer) – anyway, they split from the path long ago. Chad F. : [http://chadfowler.com/](http://chadfowler.com/) no need to comment, right? Rails Recipes, RubyGems incubator… Chu Yeow : [http://blog.codefront.net/](http://blog.codefront.net/) Living on the edge (of Rails), enough said. Dave T. : [http://pragdave.pragprog.com/](http://pragdave.pragprog.com/) Programming Ruby author. David Black (David A. Black?) : [http://dablog.rubypal.com/](http://dablog.rubypal.com/) Ruby for Rails author Evan P. : [http://rubini.us](http://rubini.us) Rubinius father Gregg P. : [http://www.railsenvy.com](http://www.railsenvy.com) RailsEnvy dude… well, rails dude. Jason Seifer : [http://www.railsenvy.com](http://www.railsenvy.com) The other RailsEnvy dude 🙂 Josh Owens : [http://josh.the-owens.com/](http://josh.the-owens.com/) Personal blog, rails related posts Laurent S. : [http://chopine.be/lrz/](http://chopine.be/lrz/) Resume page, MacRuby / Ruby/Cocoa guy? Mike C. : [http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom](http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom) Mostly Rails, part of the Rails Studio and Advanced Rails Studio of Pragmatic Programmers training Peter C. : [http://www.rubyinside.com/](http://www.rubyinside.com/) RubyInside, RubyFlow, SwitchPipe. Robert D. : [http://www.railsforall.org/](http://www.railsforall.org/) Rails for All Steven Bristol : [http://lesseverything.com](http://lesseverything.com) Rails Developer Thomas Meeks : [http://www.fullofmuchwinandawesome.com/](http://www.fullofmuchwinandawesome.com/) Single post, google couldn’t locate lot of resources besides Orlando Ruby Group (ORUG). Based on InfoQ comment, looks like he is using Rails with netbeans Tyler Hunt : [http://blog.tylerhunt.com/](http://blog.tylerhunt.com/) Coding blog, Ruby, Rspec, capistrano, javascript post… > Are these people active on ruby-talk? Haven’t seen anyone. > There are no bios, no links to any background info. Hope what I provided above helps > And why announce the results at a Rails conf? Why not at a general Ruby > conference? Take your own conclusions based on the details I posted before. PS: If I had a huge ego, can I nominate myself? it will be considered as valid nomination? 😃 HTH, ---
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Let see what Google answers (“ruby ?” % [‘put name here’]) > > Adam K. : [http://therealadam.com/](http://therealadam.com/) > Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby but let’s not forget the incredible: Adam K. and the USS Ruby [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mQoVqY2mWus/hqdefault.jpg "Ruby meets Star Trek - Adam Keys - Take 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoVqY2mWus) ---
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Just to answer a few questions. Yes, this is a Ruby thing. We’re announcing the winners are Railsconf because it’s the biggest Ruby related conference in the next two months. I imagine it might be the biggest Ruby related conference all year, so why not give the winners the most recognition we can (even if they aren’t attending). The Panel was put in place so we wouldn’t have to make this a popularity contest. When doing something like this you have two choices: 1. The person with the most nominations wins. Obviously someone could easily post to their blog “Nominate me!”, get all their friends to nominate them… yadda yadda. 2. Put together a reputable panel of voters who can look through all the entries, take the number of nomination someone gets into account, and pick out the proper winners. Who is on the panel in my opinion doesn’t really matter, as long as they keep up to date with what is going on in the community. We were lucky enough to find a few people I personally would consider “community leaders”, who wanted to help out. I see this as lending more credibility to the awards themselves. FYI. By being on the panel, they’ve also disqualified themselves from winning any of the awards. Perhaps the people who win the awards this year can join the panel the next time we do awards (maybe at Rubyconf this time). 😉 -Gregg ---
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > Adam K. : [http://therealadam.com/](http://therealadam.com/) > Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby > > Anthony E. : [http://www.anthonyeden.com/](http://www.anthonyeden.com/) > Personal blog, few technicall stuff from Rails and Ruby, nothing deep > to take a good look at. Ouch, that just hurts. > > Are these people active on ruby-talk? > > Haven’t seen anyone. A lot of us are here. > PS: If I had a huge ego, can I nominate myself? it will be considered > as valid nomination? 😃 I wouldn’t be surprised if someone nominates you Luis given the amount of time and effort you put into RubyGems on Windows. V/r Anthony ---
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On Apr 17, 8:37 am, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Bruce W. :[http://codefluency.com/](http://codefluency.com/) > Rails fame, Validatable all fame, father of the validations in > projects like DataMapper and Sequel (but not the implementer) – > anyway, they split from the path long ago. > > ## HTH, > > Luis L. I could be wrong, the project might have changed hands for all I know, but I think you’re thinking of Jay Fields: [http://blog.jayfields.com/](http://blog.jayfields.com/) …and just to set the record straight, DM’s validations started out custom, implementing Martin F.'s idea of Contextual Validations, though to be fair, 90%+ of the syntax was borrowed from Rails. Then we switched to Validatable, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but required overwriting a good bit of the Validatable code. Now we’ve gone back to the original DM validations and just filled in the areas we didn’t cover so well before. Now I’ve got a little transcoding to do, and then it’s all DM, all day hopefully. 😉 Oh yeah, Adam K. is a great guy. Organizes a lot of Ruby related events around Dallas. Spreads the knowledge. Brilliantly smart. OTOH his love of Rails frustrates me to no end. 😃 ---
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On Apr 17, 10:46 am, Anthony E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > events, and help out people who need assistance on groups like this. > > > > Adam K. :[http://therealadam.com/](http://therealadam.com/) > > > > Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby > > > Anthony E. :[http://www.anthonyeden.com/](http://www.anthonyeden.com/) > > Personal blog, few technicall stuff from Rails and Ruby, nothing deep > > to take a good look at. > > Ouch, that just hurts. Don’t take that personal man, didn’t do that for hurt people, just took a fast look at some Google results. Maybe I was waiting to see something different on these blog posts, but couldn’t complain since I post several non-ruby things in my own blog 😛 > > > Are these people active on ruby-talk? > > > Haven’t seen anyone. > > A lot of us are here. Good to know, sometimes I see the same ppl answer lot of questions, but some names on these replies don’t ring a bell for me 😃 > > PS: If I had a huge ego, can I nominate myself? it will be considered > > as valid nomination? 😃 > > I wouldn’t be surprised if someone nominates you Luis given the amount > of time and effort you put into RubyGems on Windows. Nah, my ego will be offended if I was nominated and not him. Note: if someone wants to nominate me, will be best if he nominate my Alter Ego instead. 😃 Regards, ---
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On Apr 17, 11:21 am, pat eyler [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Let see what Google answers (“ruby ?” % [‘put name here’]) > > > Adam K. :[http://therealadam.com/](http://therealadam.com/) > > Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby > > but let’s not forget the incredible: Adam K. and the USS Ruby > > [Ruby meets Star Trek - Adam Keys - Take 2 - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoVqY2mWus) Oh man, I completely forgot about that video! Excellent! 🙂 Too bad there isn’t a time machine to go further in time and see what will end up with all the Ruby Heoroes awards 😃 ---
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Can I win the worst post/reply/rant prize? please 🙂 I want to take the prize for the biggest leech 🙂 Todd ---
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On Apr 17, 11:26 am, Sam S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I could be wrong, the project might have changed hands for all I know, > but I think you’re thinking of Jay Fields:[http://blog.jayfields.com/](http://blog.jayfields.com/) Damn google, always return things out of context. Bruce is paginator gem, Jay Fields is validatable. Sorry guys for the noise! > …and just to set the record straight, DM’s validations started out > custom, implementing Martin F.'s idea of Contextual Validations, > though to be fair, 90%+ of the syntax was borrowed from Rails. Then we > switched to Validatable, which seemed like a good idea at the time, > but required overwriting a good bit of the Validatable code. Now we’ve > gone back to the original DM validations and just filled in the areas > we didn’t cover so well before. Can I win the worst post/reply/rant prize? please 🙂 I sometimes make mistakes on my review of things, and ended with statements no longer are valid. Thank you for clarify those Sam. > Now I’ve got a little transcoding to do, and then it’s all DM, all day > hopefully. 😉 Anxiety is driving me crazy. want to start using DM 0.9 now! 😃 > Oh yeah, Adam K. is a great guy. Organizes a lot of Ruby related > events around Dallas. Spreads the knowledge. Brilliantly smart. OTOH > his love of Rails frustrates me to no end. 😃 Yes, Pat mention it previous… too bad I couldn’t assist on any of these events 😛 Thank you Sam for your clarifications 🙂 Regards, ---
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Gregg P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Just to answer a few questions. > > Yes, this is a Ruby thing. We’re announcing the winners are Railsconf > because it’s the biggest Ruby related conference in the next two > months. I imagine it might be the biggest Ruby related conference all > year, so why not give the winners the most recognition we can (even if > they aren’t attending). Good thing since I doubt I’ll be able to break away to go! – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/)