Jim Weirich | |
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Born | November 18, 1956 |
Died | February 19, 2014 | (aged 57)
Nationality | United States |
Occupation | Computer scientist, programmer |
Known for | Rake |
Children | 3 |
James Nolan Weirich (November 18, 1956 – February 19, 2014) was well known in the software industry as a developer, speaker, teacher, and contributor to the Ruby Programming Language community. Among his many contributions he created the popular Rake build tool for Ruby. He was active in the Ruby community worldwide, speaking at events in Asia, South America, Europe, and the United States.
Weirich was the Chief Scientist at Neo Innovation, working at Neo's Cincinnati office. He also built and maintained many open source tools, the most popular being Rake and Builder with 74 and 54 million downloads, respectively.
Rake build tool for automating tasks in Ruby. It is the most widely downloaded Ruby Gem, downloaded more than 74 million times and has been included with Apple OS X since at least version 10.7.
Builder is a tool for creating structured XML data through Ruby.
RubyGems is package management tool for Ruby programs and libraries. Ryan Leavengood is credited with creating the very first RubyGems project in 2001, but it did not gain enough momentum to take off. In November 2003 with the need for a proper package manager growing, Richard Kilmer, Chad Fowler, David Black, Paul Brannan, and Jim Weirich got together at RubyConf 2003 in Austin and built today's RubyGems, which shares a name, but not the original codebase.
Ruby Koans is a learning tool to teach people the Ruby Programming Language through a series of small exercises.
rspec-given is an extension to the popular Ruby testing framework RSpec that enables given/when/then notation when writing specs.
Git Immersion is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
Argus A Ruby API for controlling a Parrot AR Drone.