Feats of Daring with the Ruby Standard Library
summary
A web app called Feats of Daring teaches the Ruby Standard Library through short tryruby.org style adventures that exercise real methods like net/http get_response and show actual responses 301 401 200 during the demo. The team catalogs ~107 stdlib entries, targets an initial 10–20 libraries, uses mob programming, Vagrant and test driven development under Rails Girls Summer of Code with pivotal Labs coaching, and ships a working interactive prototype.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:37Meet Wally
- 2:27Meet Stephanie
- 2:59Meet Josh
- 4:32Summer of Code
- 5:29What is Feats of Daring
- 5:54Why the Ruby Standard Library
- 7:13Wise Try Ruby
- 7:37The Standard Library
- 8:27Most Popular Libraries
- 8:39Most Included Libraries
- 9:35Inception
- 10:34Mobbing
- 14:02Test Driven Development
- 15:39Our Process
- 16:28The Local Running App
- 21:28What We Learned
- 22:42What I Learned
- 23:53Most Little Lessons
- 24:31Pivots
- 25:37What Comes Next
- 26:52Education
- 27:21Future Goals
- 28:01Coaching a Team
- 28:40Credits








