] We start here by Brittany telling us all about gem wrappers and what she's working on. She asks the guys if it makes sense to create an almost fake Rails app that she ships along with the certificate or ship beside it that shows a user how to use it? Andrew answers and mentions reading a lot of code from Vladimir, who goes by palkan, and Brittany mentions Piotr Murach, who wrote a great article about writing gem specs. [00:07:14] Brittany asks the guys if they ship their VCR cassette tapes with their code and do they find it useful or do they think that VCR cassette tapes should be ephemeral? [00:13:25] Nate tell us how he markets his open source repositories and when he has a new project that he is excited about, what kind of steps he takes. [00:15:13] Brittany asks the guys what does it feel like when you publish a library and people start opening issues with it? Is it a weird mix of joy and a little bit of panic or are you just excited overall? [00:17:27] Ron asks Nate if he has any advice on how to build that initial community and for getting those initial enthusiasts. Nate brings up a video from Derek Sivers about "How to start a movement." Great advice from Nate here and an awesome quote!  [00:20:17] Andrew talks about setting up a Rails App, how important Readme's are, and he mentions a repo that he points to a lot called Awesome Readme's." He also mentions documentations have to be good, and he tells us resources to help with this, which is a project from Evil Martians, Read the Docs, and GitBook.  [00:24:10] Brittany wants to know when do you outgrow your Readme and are all the tools that you offered better than using GitHub Wiki? Brittany mentions how she was stoked to get the Google Pay as the gem name. [00:28:15] With the example Rails project that Brittany wants to ship with the gem, she wonders if it should be part of the gem itself or should it be a separate repository? Andrew and Nate help out with this. [00:31:55] Andrew talks about if you're worried about hard to debug tickets, he created a reproduction template on how to quickly and easily reproduce your issue. Also, if you want a community, he suggests creating a place for them. He mentions Jared White, maintainer of Bridgetown, R.B. Andrew asks Brittany why did she decide to develop it in private rather than putting it in as a work in progress as the status, or the gem description, and if you try it then it's on you?  [00:38:26] Brittany tells us her empathy with Rails engines, and if she's done a local path to a locally sourced engine as well. [00:40:58] Andrews tells us about a Gem called "Combustion" that helps with engine testing that palkan uses a lot.  [00:42:33] Andrew asks everyone when you write gems do you use yard? Brittany mentions RSpec API documentation which she's used in past jobs and is pretty amazing.  [00:46:10] Andrew talks about the tool "docsify" and an Evil Martians blog post about it.  [00:46:56] Brittany talks about her passion of being in the Roller Derby, under the name Norma Skates, after Norman Bates.Links Mentioned: