Remote Ruby

On this episode of Remote Ruby, if you’ve never heard of The Cannonball Run, Chris explains what it involves, Andrew is down for it of course, and Jason tells us Vin Diesel recorded a song and Andrew celebrated his birthday!  In the Ruby world,  we’ll find out why the guys are all fans of Pagy, and we’ll hear about a fun hack day project that the talented guys from GoRails built called, Beginner B...

On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris came down with what he thinks was food poisoning this week, Jason brings up Ghost Kitchens which seem to be a thing these days, and Chris applied to be a Guide at RailsConf 2023. Also, Jason and Chris are excited to have a guest joining them because they’ve always talked about how they wished for better tooling for day-to-day Ruby development, so they brought...

On this episode of Remote Ruby, it’s another “Five Minutes of Nothing About Our Show” as the guys discuss Police Academy and the comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, a picture of Chris’s son dressed in Adidas gear, and Jason’s dilemma finding Adidas gear.  Now back to our regularly scheduled podcast topics, as Jason decided he needed a new hobby, so he bought a BeagleBone Black. We’ll hear how he used Elix...

On this episode of Remote Ruby, we have an awesome guest joining us. Today, we have Ken Collins, who’s a Principal Engineer and Cloud Architect at Custom Ink, an active member in the Ruby community for over fifteen years, a Microsoft open source contributor, PC Gamer, and an AWS Serverless Hero. We have so much to discuss today, as Ken fills us in on Lamby, Custom Ink, how Lambda evolved, a gem ca...

Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us!  Today, we have the most boring guest joining us…we’re kidding of course!  Our guest is Matt Swanson, who’s the CTO at Arrows and author of Boring Rails.  He’s taking over Jason’s spot today to bring us all the “spicy takes.”  Now that we’ve got your attention, you’re probably wondering what these “spicy takes” are.  We’ll just give you a little te...

[00:01:52] There’s a Remote Uber Eats Food Review going on here. [00:07:20] Andrew explains the new Stimulus Outlets API and what it does. [00:12:58] Jason talks about this week and dealing with isolated things that are decoupled and battling race conditions with events firing. Chris mentions it has concurrency problems and makes things much harder.    [00:16:14] Speaking of webhooks, Jason shifts...

[00:00:10] Jason tells the story of getting Derek on to be on this podcast, that started with Chris telling Jason about a book that he thought he should read.  [00:03:32] Derek shares his story of how he got into programming.  [00:06:56] Derek explains when he learned Ruby and his Rails history, which he used to rewrite CD Baby.  [00:13:24] Derek gives the best analogy for what it’s like to do two...

Welcome to a special episode of Remote Ruby! Today’s episode is the RubyConf Home Edition panel where we’ll be talking about all things Hanami. Jason is joined by Brittany Martin, Engineering Manager at TextUs and co-host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, and together and they’ll take on the role of the moderators. They are also joined by a respected group of panelists. First, we have Luca Guidi, who’...

Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! It’s a full house this week as Jason, Chris, and Andrew are back together! They also have a great guest joining them, Nadia Odunayo, who’s the Founder, CEO, and Software Developer of The StoryGraph, a book tracking, and recommendations app. Nadia spoke at the Rails SaaS Conference and her talk was titled, “Getting to one million users as a one-woma...

[00:03:40] Andrew tells us a little bit about a book he read recently called, ADHD 2.0, and Chris ponders the future of baby proofing his house.   [00:08:53] Chris got ahead over the past few months and finally recorded a new Screencast that will be out very soon, he patched a bunch of things in Pay on the Braintree side and tells us about the migration that was done.  [00:16:29] When Chris runs t...

There’s some really great stuff happening today as Jason and Chris are here, and Andrew is away traveling for the holidays. Chris announces that GoRails is getting a BIG update this coming year and we’ll hear what’s going on, they discuss sales tax stuff being a pain and using metered billing in Stripe on the new Hatchbox.  Jason’s wearing his Christmas pajamas, so you know what that means… Ruby 3...

[00:04:42] Jason and Andrew had an incident at work, they were bamboozled, and we find out what happened.  [00:05:40] In other Ruby news, here is where the laughs begin…Andrew sent a picture to Jason declaring that an adult human hand can fit inside an eagle’s talon. Is this true? [00:07:30] We find out what did Andrew do with code this week that was so terrible, and Andrew gives us an example of...

[00:02:16] Jason shares a story of Chris Seaton when he was on an earlier episode of a Remote Ruby Podcast. [00:03:34] Another Hanami livestream was done by Jason that you can check out now, and he tells us how they modified a Changeset to use bcrypt to encrypt a password. [00:07:56] Chris recommends checking out Advent of Code with CJ Avilla on YouTube.  Also, the guys share thoughts on the fear...

[00:00:56] Jason did his Hanami livestream on Twitch, he explains the app he built, how Hanami brought in 2 people from the dry-rb team who brought their ideas from there and rom-rb. Also, what’s so cool about Hanami 2.0? [00:06:45] Dry-rb gems are so nice and the guys discuss what they like about them.  [00:08:25] Find out why Andrew became a Twitch mod for Jason.  [00:09:59] Jason mentioned earl...

[00:03:33] We learn about a new Ruby version that came out with a CGI security fix.   [00:04:30] Ruby 3.2.0 is supposed to come out at Christmas, there’s a Preview 3 out and we hear about a few new features happening. [00:07:47] Chris tells us about some speed improvements with Regexp. [00:08:58] Andrew and Jason paired with Collin and other people, and he tells us what they did with a PR in the p...

[00:02:28] Jason dives right in talking about Tiptap, a text editor for the web. [00:06:05] The controversial Twitter is brought up, as well as Reddit, Mastodon, and Ruby Social. [00:07:04] We go back to Tiptap the database, as Jason goes in depth into active ActionText and what he’s exploring now.     [00:10:28] Jason mentions Tiptap will let you send HTML and explains why he likes the flexibilit...

[00:01:21] We hear about Andrew’s talk at BridgetownConf. [00:07:31] Since Chris is getting up so early these days, he talks about how productive he feels programming early mornings and late nights, and Andrew shares how addicting it can be to slip into the zone and end up working into the wee hours of the night.    [00:08:47] Chris brings up a college memory and having different sleep schedules,...

[00:01:03] Chris explains how he built a Rails app for Alexa to keep track of feeding times for the baby.  [00:06:21] Chris and Andrew chat about the pros of having lights in and around the house with WiFi connected, the cons with programing them, and Andrew explains if you’re putting something on Lambda, you can only use Ruby 2.7. [0011:24] This Week in Rails updates is the PR for improving the t...

[00:01:52] Jason and Andrew catch up on what they’ve been working on. Apparently, they’ve both been working on making Dynamic Open Graph Images. Andrew used Vercel and Jason took a different route. [00:05:11] Kevin details the recent news about rewriting Ruby Parser. [00:07:50] If you’re new to Ruby or not familiar with Parser, Kevin explains what a Parser is how it’s used in Ruby.  [00:09:54] We...

[00:00:39] Go Rails and Discord went crazy for Go Rails this morning, Collin talks about putting out the fires. This reminds Andrew of the issue he had with his dotfiles once. Admit it, we’ve all been there before!  [00:05:31] Collin is enjoying his minimal config setup lately. Andrew talks about how he likes using Znap! to help him with his dot files and reduce his shell’s startup time. [00:06:43...

[00:04:11] Jason and Andrew have a chat about seeing Drew Bragg at the Rails SaaS Conference and things they enjoyed about it. [00:07:50] We hear about all the talks at the conference from Nadia Odunayo, Joe Masilotti, Michael Buckbee, Don Pottinger, Adam Pallozzi, and Saron Yitbarek. [00:15:27] We learn why the guys had to leave the intergalactic cantina early, and they tell us about more of the...

While Jason and Andrew are conferencing it up at the Rails SaaS Conference, Chris thought it would be a great idea to have Collin Jilbert join him, so he didn’t have to go solo today. Chris and Collin catch up and discuss what they’ve been working on with Pay, we hear about a new beginner series of making a Ruby Gem Collin’s been working on for Screencasts, and Chris tells us about a Screencast he...

[00:03:02] Andy tells us some details about RubyConf Mini coming up in November, as well as RubyConf in Houston, TX. [00:08:10] Jason wonders if RubyConf Mini is unique to this year or if it’s something that Andy could see happening in the future. [00:12:35] We hear more about the Ruby Friends program that Andy started and he explains how it was born out of frustration. [00:18:29] Find out how man...

[00:01:01] Andrew explains how he had to make a complex data table. [00:03:27] Chris talks about an entry at Rails Hackathon called “Con[text]” for learning Spanish and English. [00:05:07] We learn about some of the cool improvements with the new Turbo release. [00:11:08] Chris tells us everything that went on at Rails Hackathon, and he tells us the winner of the Judges’ Favorite which was Typefig...

[00:00:15] What is this cursed idea thing Andrew did with Storybook? [00:05:31] Andrew mentioned using MDX format and he tells us what it is, Chris brings up the PHP days and components, and Andrew talks about architecture.  [00:10:51] Being a visual person, Andrew explains another thing he really likes about Storybook. [00:17:29] Jason talks about finding his Zen using Tailwind in a project.   [0...