I was sitting at the Lone Star Ruby Conference and during one of the workshops the speaker mentioned we could find a pair programming partner for the next segment of the workshop. Being a little shy and the only person I knew there was with his co-worker, I thought it would sure be nice to easily find a pair programming partner! During the break I had this idea and bought rubypair.com … I had hoped that during the conference I would find someone that also would share my vision and keep me on task to finish it. I had heard Evan Light during his talk when he mentioned has has open “office hours” where you can make an appointment to pair with him. So I found him and told him of my idea. He liked it and we agreed to pair on rubypair on the last day of the conference. We were trying to get it done so we could demo at the lightning talks but we kept wanting to try new and shinies (rails 3.1, sass, compass, mongodb etc) that we didn’t make it in time! But we made some progress and said we’d pair remotely to work on it.

The next weekend we set up time to pair on it and we worked through somethings. I was pretty rubied out though having spent the weekend prior to Lone Star Ruby Conference at an all night-hack fest in Austin. Evan took the bull by the horns (yes I live in texas now!) and worked out more kinks, David Browning did the logo and site design and Evan implemented it with SASS and Compass. Others helped out almost immediately and we had pull requests! We deployed RubyPair.com on Sept 3! See the Contributors list for the growing list of contributors.

Give it look and never code alone!

Repo: https://github.com/rubypair/rubypair
Tasks: https://github.com/rubypair/rubypair/issues