Ruby Archaeology
summary
A tour of concrete results not promises: a reproducible Vagrant box that boots a 2008 environment, rewires apt sources, and installs Ruby 1.8 via manual gem files and bundler plugins; demos of markaby, Instiki and Merb that actually run there; a surprising sweep of 22 gems researched using a 32‑core script to find historical snippets; an unexpected fidelity where bloopsophone works on Ruby 3.1 unedited — plus notes on changed idioms (try on Object vs Nil, blank_slate patterns, curly vs do/end conventions).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Ruby Archaeology intro
- 2:582008 Ruby setup
- 6:28Markaby gem 2006
- 10:41Instiki 2004 Wiki demo
- 13:52Ruby’s try method
- 17:45Merb meets Rails
- 22:38Merb’s quirks
- 27:15Old Ruby code value
- 28:40Call to action
