Career
Among his many contributions he created the popular build tool for Ruby. He was active in the Ruby community worldwide, speaking at events in Asia, South America, Europe, and the United States. Weirich was a popular conference speaker known for making very difficult topics understandable.
An archive of 29 more recent talks is available on the Confreaks site.
Some notable talks are linked below: The Grand Unified Theory of Software - Rails Underground 2009 SOLID Ruby - RubyNation 2010 Power - Steel City Ruby 2012 Y Not? Adventures in Functional Programming - Ruby Conference 2012 Kata and Analysis - BostonRB Monthly Meeting - February 2013 Why Aren"t You Using Ruby - RubyConf Uruguay 2013 RubyMotion - CincyCocoaDev April 2013 Decoupling from Rails - CincyRB October 2013 Ruby, threads, events.. and Flying Robots! - CincyRB May 2013 Weirich grew up in Shipshewana, Indiana, graduating from Westview Junior - Senior High School in 1975. He went on to graduate from Indiana University in 1979 with a degree in Physics.
He lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Weirich was active in the Ruby community worldwide, and especially in Cincinnati, participating in the local agile development, Ruby, and functional programming user groups.
At meetings, he often gave talks and was widely acclaimed for the clarity and quality of his presentations.
News of Weirich"s death was met with hundreds of tributes and thanks via comments on his final Github commit, which includes a special banner added by GitHub. The 1.9.3-p545 release of the Ruby programming language was dedicated to his memory.
