After Robert Martin’s Clean Code talk at SDWest this year, I had the good fortune of meeting Gregg Pollack. If you don’t happen to know Gregg, he represents Ruby on Rails in these PC vs Mac spinoffs. The videos are a little old, but if you haven’t seen them yet, they’re good for a laugh.

Ruby on Rails vs Java

Ruby on Rails vs PHP

Ruby on Rails vs PHP (Organization)

Ruby on Rails vs PHP (Changing Databases)

It was great to talk to Gregg about Rails and some of the things going on in the community. He mentioned his podcast (RailsEnvy.com) to me. He and Jason Seifer saw a need for a podcast dedicated solely to relaying news about the Rails community. I’ve subscribed and caught up on some of the past episodes. They’re very well done, have a tremendous amount of content and just the right amount of humor to keep them fun. Each session now ends with a segment called “Living on the Edge”, which is dedicated to understanding what happened with Edge Rails over the course of the past week. Edge Rails is the trunk version of Ruby on Rails for those unfamiliar.

If you’re doing Rails development, you really owe it to yourself to subscribe to this podcast and feed, so that you can stay in touch with what’s happening in the community. Thanks for getting this out there Gregg.