Remote Ruby

[00:00:58] We start off by Andrew telling us he’s working in a weird area of the internet doing stuff with Adobe and the guys catch up on what’s going on in their lives.   [00:07:59] It’s not a joke! Jason wants to talk about Haml, and how interested and excited he is to see they’re working on it again (you can certainly hear the cheering from Andrew). ☺ Andrew talks about Haml released their “roa...

[00:00:50] Andrew fills us in on the Ruby Radar stuff and if anyone is interested in being a part of it or helping out you can reach out to him!    [00:03:25] Andrew tells us about using elink which is like a bookmarking tool. [00:05:03] Chris tells us about doing email work for the job board he wants to set up and we find out what happens since it’s been awhile that he did any CSS work in email....

[00:00:49] Andrew tells us Brittany Martin released a great podcast episode with Evan Phoenix and Marty Haught, about behind the scenes of Railsconf, and a story about how a man’s submarine was running Ruby.  [00:04:56] We hear about Andrew’s move and the crazy things that happened before he moved, which included his house catching on fire and finding a place to live in Arizona during a housing sh...

[00:03:26] CJ tells us about himself and what he does at Stripe. [00:07:18] We learn about two different paths and what Stripe does beyond card payments. [00:09:21] Chris wonders since CJ knows Ruby, if he ends up doing every language and every front-end framework too. Chris talks about using Sinatra as well. [00:12:48] CJ asks Chris how much Swift code he had to write or if he was using SwiftUI f...

[00:05:33] Jason introduces himself and tells us what he does.  [00:06:48] Jason defines what a service object is and how he views them, and then asks the guys if they use service objects and what comes to mind when they hear the term service objects.  [00:11:45] We find out about a blog post that Jason wrote recently that he tells us about.  [00:13:49] Chris talks about good complicated examples...

[00:00:49] What an interesting week for Andrew! Find out exactly what happened to him and all about his “concerns” he had at work.  [00:07:41] Chris was on Twitter this week talking about maybe bringing back “Rails Rumble” and he would love to make it happen but would need help.  [00:12:20] We find out if anyone has participated in a Hackathon before. Chris and Jason talk about one time they tried...

[00:01:59] Jason tells us about WNB.rb, which is a new virtual community for women and non-binary Rubyists to get involved in.  [00:03:23] Joe tells us all about himself and what he does.  [00:05:08] We learn how it was in the early days when Joe was just using the Turbolinks version.  [00:09:20] Joe tells us things he’s built in the past especially when people are trying to convert their app to m...

[00:02:05] We learn how RailsConf 2021 was from Chris, and Andrew makes an announcement that he’s moving out of state and something about always wanting to be a trucker. ☺  [00:07:45] Chris fills us in on what he talked about at RailsConf 2021, which was on Action Text, Turbo, and ActionMailbox. [00:10:51] Jason tells us about using Action Text and what happened.  Chris and Andrew chat more about...

After Jason talked about his side project last week, he tells us he had to abandon Stripe checkout and did something else instead, and Chris announced he just did a Stripe Checkout video for GoRails this week. Joining us on today’s episode, we have Joel Hawksley, an Engineer at GitHub and creator of ViewComponent. We learn what ViewComponents are, how Joel came up with the idea, and his latest exp...

[00:01:51] Jason tells us he’s been on “bug rotation” at Podia this week and he shares how they do it. [00:05:53] Chris explains how he was working on some Rewardful stuff. [00:08:00] Jason announces Andrea Fomera has released her Hotwire course and some great things that have happened with that.    [00:12:05] Jason tells us about a new side project he’s been working on which is an  E-commerce pla...

[00:03:19] Andrew starts us off with a funny story starting with having some discrepancies on staging and locally and using redirect back method.  [00:06:52] Chris and Andrew dive into discussing Leftpad. [00:12:05] Chris brings up the fiasco that went down on Twitter with mimemagic dependency and Andrew explains it.    [00:18:39] We learn about a new version of Rails that was just released, and C...

[00:01:45] Fred gives us a brief introduction of what he’s working on these days. [00:03:50] Fred did a conference talk about the Third Age of JavaScript and he tells us what it is. [00:07:07] Andrew asks Fred to explain what ESM is and modules.    [00:10:53] We learn about using Skypack when Andrew brings up about not having to run NPM install on your local machine.  [00:14:30] Chris wonders if t...

[00:01:00] The guys chat about what happened this week in their lives, getting COVID vaccines, and Chris trying to get a title transferred on an old car. [00:10:57] Andrew poses a question to Jason and Chris which has to do with Delegated Types. Chris and Jason have a discussion about using it. [00:17:13] Chris mentions pagination being a problem and how querying and then merging could work. After...

[00:04:17] Chris asks the guys if they submitted a talk to RailsConf 2021. Andrew tells us about a virtual talk at a meetup he’s giving in June. [00:08:53] Chris tells us about something he helped start a long time ago called LaunchCode. [00:11:58] Find out what Chris’s submission to RailConf 2021 is on.   [00:16:54] Chris helps Andrew understand Turbo better.    [00:25:40] Jason talks about wonde...

[00:01:40] Mike tells us about himself, what he was doing before he started Sidekiq, and what led in the idea of him starting it. [00:03:46] Jason asks Mike if he thinks a lot of thread safe code in our ecosystem came from just people adopting Sidekiq, and when he started Sidekiq did he have plans of it becoming paid tiers or was it purely an open source project at the time. [00:06:07] When he mov...

[00:02:42] Andrew does a follow up from last week when he talked about moving and archiving repos and he gives an update. Jason tells us problems they’ve had with Dependabot. [00:05:36] We learn about Andrew perfecting a gem release workflow and using Conventional Commits. [00:09:43] Chris was busy this week and he tells us about a live stream he did with Freek Van der Herten, who created an app c...

[00:00:22] The guys share stories of things that happened to them this past week. [00:06:30] Jason announces he got all his testing videos done for his course and it pushed him to do more work on the StimulusReflex testing library.  [00:09:25] Chris asks the guys if they knew of a library that has test helpers for both frameworks.    [00:12:22] Jason tells us his testimonials are done and he’s hit...

[00:01:43] The guys chat about callbacks.  [00:04:46] Chris tells us about the new course he did, “Ruby on Rails for Beginners.” [00:08:58] Andrew asks Chris if he actually talked to people who are newer in Rails to figure out about the pry or if he had a sense of it because of where he’s at in the community.   [00:11:57] Jason hints at wanting to make a course on SQL for Active Record for Rails D...

[00:01:50] Brian tells us what he does and how he got into Rails. [00:04:15] We learn about Brian’s company, Audience Ops, and ProcessKit, which is a SaaS product that he’s been working on. [00:05:40] Jason is curious to know what it was like for Brian to build his first product on WordPress. Also, he talks about learning Rails to build SaaS apps.   [00:11:58] Brian tells us about building Sunrise...

[00:00:41] Chris and Jason tell us what they’ve been working on with Hotwire and StimulusReflex.  [00:03:19] Tobias tells us all about himself and what he does at Makandra.       [00:05:04] Tobias explains to us the idea behind Rails LTS, why it was created, and what it does for people. He talks about a Tweet by Patrick McKenzie.   [00:08:08] Chris asks Tobias if it’s hard to maintain all that stu...

[00:00:34] DHH jumps right into telling us what the response has been to Hotwire and how Basecamp has felt about the response. [00:04:02] DHH talks about a book they published in 2013 and mentions to “wait for the pendulum to come your way,” and how this relates to Hotwire. He also talks about Turbo. [00:08:06] Since Hotwire, the whole package, is a separate gem you bring in, Jason asks DHH if lon...

[00:01:20] Nate tells us a little bit about himself, what he does, and a book he wrote.  [00:02:18] Nate talks about the Rails Performance workshop he released a month ago.   [00:06:02] Jason asks Nate if he has any plans to go back into the in-person training or if he will keep the current format if it’s showing more advantages.   [00:08:03] If you are interested in learning more about performanc...

[00:01:41] Jason dropped his StimulusReflex course in early access and he tells us how the initial reception of it is and how he’s feeling about it. [00:09:21] Andrew explains the differences between Snowpack’s more like Webpacker, and he mentions Skypack and Snowpack pair very nice together.   [00:18:07] Andrew tells us that Webpack is just a bunch of Webpack config rolled into a nice easy to use...

[00:01:44] Robby tells us who is he and some of things he’s involved with. [00:02:42] Robby tells us about Z shells being the default on macOS and if more people are using it.   [00:04:04] Since Robby’s been in the Rails Community for a long time, he tells us how things have changed and how he got into Ruby on Rails and Z shell.   [00:16:34] Robby tells us about doing something in Postgres, but cu...

[00:00:25] Jason tells us about his busy Black Friday weekend and having to use Rails Autoscale, and Chris mentions Shopify’s graph showing their traffic for the weekend.  [00:02:51] Jason tells us what’s new in the Ruby on Rails world and mentions RC2, and Chris tested Jumpstart Pro against RC1. Jason talks about something is wrong with his RC and it may be something with the version of Ruby he’s...