I've created a quick form to gather email addresses to gauge interest in a Nashville, TN based #Ruby User Group. I'm also looking for places to meet. @rails discussions too. Please sign up if interested nashrb.com @dhh @GregMolnar @rubylangorg

This was a great episode @BrodieOnLinux! I've messed around with @GraphiteEditor a few times this year. Most of my art needs are related to game dev so raster, drawing tablet, pixel art. It would be cool to have one app for both vector and raster art. Like you, excited for the desktop app and stable document file type.

Meanwhile, do I even need a filetree?

I'm looking at starting a #Nashville #Ruby/#Rails user group. It appears there was one on Meetup but they haven't been active for a few years. Right now, doing some groundwork to figure out if there's interest and potential spaces we could try to meet.

I ran 5 miles without stopping for the first time this morning. Staying fit with a day job and a side project where you sit at a desk can be tough. While it's been tough to get going, I've finally built up the habit. Maybe a topic for a future video?

I think the big reason is that it's considered an easy on-ramp since Discord is so popular. It's a tricky one. On the one hand, it's very simple to join. On the other hand it's easy to join lots of servers, I know I personally only check in on a few on a regular basis. I am leaning towards other options for my community (if I ever get one started) just to make it a bit more focused. Not to mention the search....

Think about the indie game devs out there. We're often making a game we saw that we think needs a twist. It's the same with my first SaaS idea I'm starting. I was interacting with some common software and thought, 'Man the UX here is unpleasant.' Chatted with the guy who used it and he told me how much per month it is, for what it is, it costs way too much imo. Just because there's an app out there, doesn't mean it's going to do things the way you'd design it. That could change it. If you find an app doing the same thing, maybe that means you tweak the idea. I think you just need to ask yourself, do you still believe in the idea? I'd also personally consider doing some market research when you can

An update: Game dev wise, I've struggled with the art side of things. Additionally, it seems like everytime I try to do a game jam, work decides to ramp up and that week or so is extremely busy. I have a lead on the art I want to experiment with here soon. In the meantime, I've been focused more on web development using Ruby on Rails. I have an idea for a SaaS for small businesses. I've debated streaming some of my web dev work. That being said I do have two ideas for game dev related videos. First, I've been thinking a lot about a certain tech 'product' recently. I've thought about ways I could talk about it in a video, and the marketing of that tech has actually given me some ways to think about marketing a game. Second, with the SaaS I've been thinking on, the philosophy behind it ties back to my game dev philosophy as well. I've been thinking about how I go about creating a game and how that ties into how I think about software and conversely how an AAA game has all these systems and many bigger software projects have so many extra things added. Which of the ideas below sounds the most appealing as my next focus for Youtube?

WI'm hoping the rubyists I followed will start posting more about what they are working on. I've been thinking lately, that I'd actually like a Ruby or at the least programming focused community that people talk about what they are making. I'm honestly starting to lean more towards the idea of separate communities that really focus on a topic. The problem I've seen is that people want to bring too many other things into it or it gets flooded with beginner questions. I'm all for asking beginner questions as long as it's not something easily googleable or something that's been asked so often. Naturally the other trick is getting people to join up and getting a group going.

I've looked at the new Herb stuff a little bit, but it's not super clear to me what is it? Is it a new templating system beyond html.erb? Or is it a something to help interpret html.erb templates? I've looked up some stuff about it, but I don't feel like I've pinned down an answer.

Is there an advantage to creating a plain Ruby class and importing some ActiveRecord stuff instead of creating an actual ActiveRecord model? I stumbled across a series of articles by Rails Designer on "Building a SaaS with Ruby on Rails" and it does this a few times. I am going through how it works, but I"m curious as to why someone would want to go this route?

The reason I started using Ruby and looked at Rails was due to the passion @dhh had when talking about Ruby during @ThePrimeagen's & @teej_dv 's podcast. I doubt I would have dug into Ruby without him talking about Ruby the way he does. Still a long ways to go, but I've gotten much better at programming overall. Have some game ideas and even a small SaaS or two to develop. Thanks for the passion you have for Ruby and Rails @dhh

rubyfriends.app/profiles/XNY… I'm on the Ruby Friends app as well. Feel free to add me #ruby #rubyonrails

While I'm working on figuring out the art for my game (more on that soon hopefully). I've been working on learning some #rubyonrails This is my first project I'm working through. The models are very simple but working on putting them together in Rails and understanding how they all fit together. So far a post belongs to a user and a comment belongs to a user and a post. Next is to add more views and add in the scoring system. #ruby #programming #webdev