Remote Ruby

[00:01:39] Thiago and Stefanni tell us a little bit about themselves, how they started doing the open source livestreams, and what their goals are for them. [00:07:56] We find out how Thiago got interested in doing this stuff, how he got started in Ruby, and what led him to focus on this particular area. [00:11:51] Find out the reason why Jason dropped out of college and what Andrew was angry abou...

[00:01:23] Rafael tells us what got him into Ruby and eventually into Rails. [00:05:08] We learn more about Rafael’s experience working at Plataformatec. [00:06:28] Rafael explains more about the Rails and Merb merge. [00:11:18] Find out when Rails engines became a thing, what a Railtie is, and how the Rails engine builds on top of the Railtie.  [00:15:44] Chris wonders how the engine approach has...

[00:00:28] The panelists introduce themselves. [00:01:37] We hear what everyone is most excited about being at RubyConf and the talks they are most excited about going to. [00:04:11] Jason Swett shares how he prepped for the workshops, and Nick and Emily tell us about their talks.  [00:08:13] Jemma asks the panelists why they come to conferences and what brings them here. [00:11:12] Everyone here...

[00:00:52] The guys chat about being at RubyConf, how they recorded a live episode with six people, what they talked about, and something about a stellar ending.    [00:02:50] Andrew and Jason talk about what happened from the first day of RubyConf and from then on, between meeting up with people, eating with friends, doing a lot of walking, hugging, and talking with so many people.  [00:06:39] Ja...

[00:03:24] Andrew went to a mall and he explains what it was like to shop in a mall in 2021. [00:05:17] Jason and Andrew are headed to RubyConf and they discuss what they are most looking forward to there.  [00:07:30] The guys finally chat about Elixir! [00:09:12] The topic of Hotwire is discussed, and Chris tells us what fascinates him with the Elixir of the LiveView.  [00:16:51] Andrew tells us...

[00:00:32] Andrew tells us they shipped a new project at work this week they’ve been working on for a few months, and although it went pretty smoothly, he explains some bumps they had along the way and dealing with crunch time. Chris shares an issue and why he’s been postponing the launch of the new Hatchbox.  [00:04:13] We hear more about propagating the DNS and how long it took. [00:08:28] Andre...

[00:10:32] Jason tells us what he’s been working on this week and a problem with quickly deleting a record that has associations and callbacks. [00:13:53] We learn more about the gem Miss Hannigan. [00:16:15] Chris talks about whether or not to include soft deletes in the default scope, because you end up with gotchas, and Andrew tells us the importance of putting more work and thought into your d...

[00:01:32] Joe, Chris, and Dylan tell us what they do at Polywork. [00:02:34] Joe shares things that make a good Rails Developer and what type of person would be best to join their team.  [00:05:47] Find out all about Polywork. Andrew mentions checking out Brian Lovin’s Polywork page.  [00:07:16] Joe tells us how they rebuilt the application on Rails 6.1, Turbo, and Stimulus, and how it has paid o...

[00:04:42] We find out if the guys done any stuff with Rails 7 yet and Chris tells us what’s been going on with it.  [00:09:44] Chris asks the guys if they are using an encryption library, and Jason talks about using Lockbox and Symmetric Encryption.  [00:14:08] Chris tells us more about progressive encryption in Rails 7.  [00:15:11] The guys chat about Ruby 3.1 and the new project from Shopify ge...

[00:00:50] The guys chat about the new release of Turbo 7.0.1. [00:01:46] Chris tells us how he moved all of the GoRails, CSS, and JavaScript from Webpacker into CSS and JS bundling, and it went pretty smooth except for something dumb he did.  [00:04:50] Propshaft is brought up and we learn what it does.   [00:08:44] Why do we need the hashes at the end? Andrew explains why it’s all about caching....

[00:03:38] Jason tells us about an interesting project he’s been working on this week with a Mockup Generator, and he’s on the Ruby side of it now. He tells us how he’s rendering the images on top of each other with a React component called Design. [00:09:29] Andrew asks Jason what happens if you have a P and G layer on top of a JPEG. Chris wonders if Jason is doing the commands with image process...

[00:03:19] Jason tells us about a side project he’s working on which is mostly JavaScript, but he’s also using ImageMagick. [00:04:46] Andrew gets off topic and asks the guys if they saw the trailer for The Matrix 4 and he reveals a fun fact about the website.  Chris asks the guys if they’ve watched any of the CSS bundling stuff that’s going on and he fills us in on what’s going on.   [00:11:33] W...

[00:03:52] Jason fills us in on how he’s building a pretty heavy JavaScript tool, using Vite, and a problem he had.   [00:11:04] We learn about some PR’s Jason around Webpacker on the GoRails discord  that had a solution for Jason’s problem.  [00:13:50] Chris talks about “esbuild for Rails” and other approaches that are coming out right now with DHH’s latest stuff is fascinating. He also talks abo...

[00:03:15] Andrew introduces himself, what he does, and more about the businesses that he started. [00:09:48] Chris asks Andrew what took him from PHP to Ruby. [00:12:22] Find out about the project Andrew did with Rails. [00:14:28] The conversation turns to talking about going from consulting, into wanting to build a product, and the transition being a hard decision.   [00:16:48] Jason tells us ab...

[00:00:43] Jason and Chris chat about stripe-ruby-mock and Paddle.  [00:03:23] Kasper tells about himself, what he’s doing now, and how he got into the Rails and Ruby stuff.  [00:13:51] Chris asks Kasper if he has any thoughts on the depth that he has to put into thinking about every one of the PR’s which has to be quite a lot. [00:15:06] Chris brings up Active Storage as an interesting example th...

[00:03:15] We start with Andrew telling us he’s not a fan of code coverage metric and talks about a gem everyone uses called SimpleCov and what it does. Kevin dives into code coverage and why he doesn’t believe it’s a holistic measure and how code coverage can lie to you.     [00:05:40] Find out why Kevin love tests, and he explains some other downsides of focusing on code coverage and brings up C...

[00:02:51] Chris tells us about taking on the task of refactoring Pay.    [00:03:48] Find out about the first open source project Chris did in programming called “Keryx,” and how this refactoring he’s doing brought him back those days of reminding him how he needs to go make these changes and wondering how he’s going to do them. [00:07:20] Chris takes us through what happened for his first couple...

[00:01:02] Chris, Jason, and Andrew tell us the story behind Remote Ruby and how it started.    [00:03:42] Jason Swett tells us the origin of where Rails with Jason came from.  [00:04:42] Chris Toomey and Stephanie share the story behind The Bike Shed.  [00:07:10] Brittany tells us her story behind The Ruby on Rails podcast.  [00:08:07] We find out how Remote Ruby and The Bike Shed are put togethe...

[00:01:42] Last week the guys discussed using Inertia, and Jason tell us he’s been doing more Inertia and messing with forms, “axios” is explained, and using validation.    [00:10:18] Jason talks about showing  some people what he’s been doing with Inertia and someone asked him how he was going to handle flash. Jason tells us what he did, and Andrew shares some thoughts on this. [00:12:27] At Podi...

[00:00:42] Andrew gives us an update if he finished his JavaScript framework he was working on, and he tells us why he chooses to use Alpine over Stimulus.    [00:03:45] Find out about a method that Bridgetown has called jsonify and what it does.  [00:04:55] Jason tells us since he’s been low key back in action this week and he’s been trying out Inertia.js. The creator of Inertia, Jonathan Reinink...

[00:01:46] Collin gives us his background and getting into the programming world.    [00:03:24] Collin fills us in on why he decided to do a part-time Bootcamp instead of a full-time one, and Chris wonders if the slower pace helped him retain knowledge. [00:06:28] Find out about the kind of projects Collin did at the Bootcamp. [00:08:21] Andrew ask Collin for his opinion on why they hit Sinatra be...

[00:00:51] Chris gives a shout-out to Adam McCrea, the Developer behind the Rails Autoscale for Heroku, and how he grew the product over the course of three years and had $300,000 in annual revenue. He was recently talking about it on an episode of “Startups For the Rest of Us.” [00:02:21] The guys talk about feeling burnt out, Chris going on vacation in two weeks, Andrew needing a massage or floa...

[00:00:15] Since Jason’s been gone a few weeks, the guys have a chat to catch up.   Jason tells us how it’s been going at home since the arrival of his baby daughter, Chris gives us an update of what’s going on with his new house, and Andrew tells us he’s been busy with his website and doing upgrades.    [00:07:19] Andrew informs us how he regrets making all those GitHub actions a while ago, and h...

[00:02:00] Chris and Andrew reminisce about Wii Fit, Dungeons & Dragons, and card games, which we learn Andrew became a cheater in card games.    [00:04:57] Andrew gives two shout-outs, Jason Swett had his hundredth podcast of “Rails with Jason” this week, and Brittany Martin moved her Ruby on Rails podcast.  [00:07:50] Andrew shares some interesting information he learned about companies movi...

[00:03:38] Cameron fills us in on a project he’s working on called Kuby, and how he got started on it.    [00:10:07] Cameron walks us through setting Kuby up for the first time. [00:13:33] Chris wonders how Kuby works with databases. Cameron tells us about another really cool project called KubeDB.   [00:15:38] We learn how different things work in Kubernetes, such as SSH, Cron, and running Migrat...