Remote Ruby

[00:02:15] Jason shares some interesting news that happened at Podia that involves Harry Connick Jr. and load testing.  [00:05:54] Chris tells us a story about his first Rails job which was building a website for Justin Timberlake’s 901Tequila. [00:07:08] Jason tells us about a tool they used called k6.  [00:18:11] Chris and Jason chat about query times with Heroku Postgres and Heroku Dashboard. [...

[00:05:09] Kevin gives us a brief introduction of himself.  [00:07:33] Kevin tells us about the grant he received, and he tells us about rubyfmt and SyntaxTree. [00:12:27] We learn why you have to do plugins in your language and why Kevin is convinced we need a new parser for Ruby. [00:16:43] Jason wonders if prettier was Kevin’s first introduction to parsers and how he got so knowledgeable about...

[00:01:12] We start with Taylor explaining where Laravel came from.   [00:03:32] Taylor tells us what Laravel 1.0 looks like and more about validations happening at the controller layer. [00:07:18] After version 1 comes out, Jason asks Taylor if he’s still at the trucking company and what the reception was like in the community. [00:11:16] We learn how the transition went for Taylor from working a...

[00:05:08] Jared tells us about himself, what he does, and how Bridgetown was born. [00:09:45] Andrew plugs going on GitHub and sponsoring Jared. [00:10:15] Bridgetown 1.0 is almost here, and Jared tells us more.   [00:15:47] We find out what else is new in Bridgetown since the guys last talked.  He tells us more about how he used Roda. [00:23:41] Chris asks Jared if he ever thought about using a...

[00:02:40] The first Tweet is: Haml? Jason does two live readings of a Haml file.  [00:05:24] Next question: Someone wants to know how to cope with the feeling of Rails moving too fast. Is it utopia? [00:09:18] Next question: How is YAML pronounced? [00:09:23] Next Tweet: You should talk about Andrew’s awesome buddy, Andrea!  [00:11:23] Next question: When is Rails 8 coming out?   [00:17:15] Next...

[00:03:25] We get to know more about John, what he does, what he’s built, and what he’s most famous for.  [00:08:52] John fills us in on what Flipper is. [00:13:04] Jason talks about how they’ve been using groups to do a stair-step rollout within the company, and John tells us about a new thing coming out that’s going to replace groups that will be easier.  [00:14:21] Andrew explains more about Tr...

[00:02:09] Ben takes us thorough his career journey starting off as a programmer. [00:05:45] Ben explains how things have changed since he became a CEO and about the transition with Tuple.  [00:06:35] Chris wonders if Ben’s had any struggles now that he’s interviewing and managing people, and he explains how he’s had to learn more in this process. [00:09:12] Ben tells us how hiring and figuring ou...

[00:01:52] Ben introduces himself and tells us about a configuration he did with Docker.  [00:09:24] Find out what GitHub Codespaces is all about.  [00:18:20] Ben explains the demo he did on how to create a new repository.  [00:22:56] Andrew tells Ben he feels like he might know how to set up a home network somehow, and what does Ben have to say about this? [00:26:01] Ben asks the guys if they’re...

[00:03:47] Andreas gives us a brief introduction of who he is, what he does, and how long he’s been writing Ruby code and Elixir code. [00:05:59] Find out what Phoenix LiveView is, and Jason wonders if it’s something that multiple processes could come in and reference or if it’s tied to one kind of connection. [00:08:55] Jason asks Andreas if he’s building a web app and someone tells him to use Li...

[00:01:10] Adam tells us a little bit about himself and how he got into this field.  [00:03:48] We learn more about Adam’s career path from edge case to Rails Autoscale.  [00:05:09] Adam gives us a rundown of what Rails Autoscale is and the problem it solves. [00:06:41] Andrew wonders if Rails Autoscale will help if you don’t have enough memory, and Adam tells us the solution for this. [00:09:39]...

[00:01:32] Emily and Jemma tell us their background stories of how they found their way into Ruby.  [00:03:26] Andrew asks Emily and Jemma if they ever wrote in BlueJ and he explains what it is. [00:04:19] We learn more about WNB.rb, how big the group is, and all the events they do.  Also, Jemma tells us about Emily’s talk she gave at RubyConf 2020 that’s worth checking out called, “The Bug that F...

[00:01:06] Paul tells us the story of how he got into audio editing and podcasting. [00:05:19] We learn how Paul got linked up with the Remote Ruby podcast, as well as Brittany’s Ruby on Rails podcast.  [00:09:01] Paul does True Crime podcasts and he tells us what he loves about them. [00:09:31] Since Paul has edited many, many episodes for both of the podcasts, Brittany wonders if there are certa...

[00:01:13] DHH tells us what Hotwire is and what’s new in Rails. [00:16:38] Jason brings up Hey being able to go full import map, and wonders if DHH sees being able to move to import maps only for Basecamp 4 eventually or will there be esbuild involved. [00:25:51] Hotwire Strada comes into the conversation and DHH fills us in on this. Chris talks about how the CSS and JS bundling turned out so cle...

[00:02:40] Jason gives us an explanation of what Kolide is, how they found Caitlin, and why they decided to hire her. [00:06:09] Andrew asks Jason when he was looking for someone for a mid to senior position, and what led him to believe that maybe that’s someone who doesn’t fit into a senior category but can still have the impact of someone with a senior paycheck. [00:08:42] Find out the most impa...

[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...