Noah Gibbs has passed away.

Noah was:

• A member of the YJIT team.

• The author of "Rebuilding Rails"

• The creator of the Rails Ruby Bench.

His big dream in life was to help build the Ruby community up. He wanted to be like the folks who worked to create the railroads during the industrial revolution. He thought Ruby was the best way to do (fill in the blank) and he wanted to share his knowledge as widely as possible. His kindness and generosity extended into every corner of his life.

Noah's passing was sudden and very fast. He did not suffer. He is survived by his wife and children.

Noah's wife has asked me to collect stories about Noah for the benefit of his children. They couldn't see how deep and complex and layered his life was, and she would like them to be able to understand that some day.

If you have a story about Noah, please share here or in this Google form.

Hey Ruby. It's Krissy. I am Noah Gibbs' widow. I am at a point where I have to figure out how many of his domains and projects and what-not I am going to keep paying for on an ongoing basis. I am not a coder. I am going to be able to pay a credit card bill and that's about it.

I know that the stuff Noah built has benefited a lot of people, but I don't know how much needs to be maintained going forward. I know how many books are still selling--a small trickle.

How important is it to you, the Ruby community, that you still are able to search for Noah Gibbs and find all his old programming nattering? Does this still matter to you? If it does I'll keep the domains on auto-renew forever. All of you mattered so much to him. He had two big main concerns in his life: me, and helping the Information Railroad. He loved all of you as his companions on an important quest to help humanity move forward and share information.

What do you want me to do?

4th stage interview, 2nd coding challenge (first one was in js). Expected completion time: 4 hours, including cloud deployment. Build and style single page with a table of users and a form to add those users via Ajax. "Frontend" must be built with bootstrap and jQuery, none of which I have used in the past 10 years. No css preprocessors or js pipeline, no virtual/docker environment.

Is it just me, or is this getting absolutely riddiculus?

Just started learning Ruby today. This is the first program I wrote. I'm not sure what this is useful for but I had to try out what I learned today.

A lot of subs are going “dark” on June 12th to protest Reddit getting rid of the API for third party apps. I personally use the web UI (desktop and mobile) and find the “Reddit is better in the app” pop ups annoying and pushy. I don’t like that they are more concerned with what’s better for the bottom line than for the users.

In solidarity I’m interested in having this sub join the protest. I’m also interested in what you think. Join the protest: yes or no? Why or why not?