The Ruby Racer (Changelog Interviews #23)

Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Gregg Pollack from Ruby5 co-hosted this episode!
• Red Dirt Ruby Conf - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC
• Charles Lowell from the FrontSide
• The Ruby Racer Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby
• The Ruby Rhino Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby
• Mustache - logicless views from defunkt
• Mustache.js - Jan Lehnardt’s awesome port of Mustache
• Google V8 Google’s super fast JavaScript engine
• Glenn Vanderburg asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”
• JSON templates Precursor to Mustache
• Underscore.js Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework
• Env.js A pure-JavaScript browser environment from John Resig
• Drunk and Retired Charles’ own podcast

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!