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Evan David Light

Evan David Light


Aliasessleight42, elight
LocationUnited States, Berlin, MD
Company Triple Dog Dare


Evan David Light is a recovered Java/J2EE geek who far prefers the elegance of Ruby.

He founded and organizes the annual Ruby DCamp unconference and contributes to open source. As an extroverted geek, he loves sharing his enthusiasm for Ruby.

Has presented to…

  • Ruby|WebConf ‘10 “An iOS eye for the Rails Guy”
  • Ruby DCamp ‘09 “Introducing Coulda”
  • Lone Star Ruby Conf ‘09
  • Scotland on Rails ‘09 on “TDD: More than just ‘Testing’”
  • Ruby DCamp ‘08 on “OSX Hacking with RubyOSA and RB-AppScript”
  • ERubycon ‘08 on “Unit Testing of J2EE with JRuby”
  • NoVaRUG
  • DCRUG

    • Has plublished…

  • “My love for BDD: Using specs and stories to drive your software” in Issue #2 of The Rubyist magazine
  • “Adapting Datamapper: Writing your own Datamapper adapter for fun and profit” in Issue #1 of The Rubyist magazine
  • “Tinkering with iChat: Using RubyOSA to have some fun in Mac OS X” in Issue #1 of The Rubyist magazine

    • Has contributed to…

  • coulda – a lightweight take on BDD informed by cucumber, shoulda, and thor
  • acts_as_commentable_with_threading – super-simple threaded commenting for your Rails app
  • JRuby – particularly Java Integration specs and some bug fixes
  • DataMapper
  • RSpec
  • Cucumber (now part of RSpec)
  • Workling

    • ... and has written his fair share of open source software that he shares via GitHub and Rubyforge.

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    Homepage: http://evan.tiggerpalace.com

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    75.0%

    • Rails Core Contributor
    • Presented at a Rails related event
    • Attended a Rails related event
    • Has published a Ruby gem
    • Has published a Rails plugin
    • Works professionally with Rails

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    Experience

    Using Ruby for 5 years 4 months
    Using Rails for 5 years 4 months

    rails core contributor

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    Projects (3)

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