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Host: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Igor Morozov

Summary

Igor Morozov shares what the ruby community looks like in Moscow, Russia and what Russian developers are doing. He talks about deciding to be a developer to make video games at 8 years old. He shares how scripting Grand Theft Auto really got him into developing. Igor and Charles Max Wood discuss university and learning through doing projects versus learning by reading books. Igor shares how he got into Ruby and what about Ruby made him stay a Ruby developer. The episode ends with Igor sharing what he is currently working on and what his everyday life looks like.

Links

• RR 407: Functional Programming in Ruby using Dry Gems with Igor Morozov
• www.morozov.is

Picks

Igor Morozov:

• Triarius military trousers by SRVV
• https://dry-rb.org/
• https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
• https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/9738f96fcfe50b2a605e350bdd40bd7a85665f54

Charles Max Wood:

• https://www.harborfreight.com/
• https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk