Description:

The Ruby community's passion for open source is unparalleled with respect to other languages, however it comes at a price. In this talk some extremely opinionated ideas will be presented in the hopes of sparking some great conversion around the following areas:

Code quality vs time to market in the OSS world, flexible project infrastructure, outside in to inside out testing, locking down your API and design, leveraging the community for resources, proper open source etiquette, and effective and noneffective design and refactoring techniques.