Ruby Rogues

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support...

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support .

Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he's building in his spare time. John, Dave, and Chuck dive into the current authorization gems and talk about their strengths and weaknesses and discuss how and when to use or build alternatives to them. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Next Level Mastermind  Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-d...

The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Linode Next Level Mastermind Links Devchat.tv | Dev Rev Picks Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywher...

We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on related topics like interviewing. Panel Charles Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Sponsors Next Level Mastermind   Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links The Eccentricities of Hammer and Nail by Suz Hinton Picks Charles- Next Level Mastermind Charles- The Eye...

Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This episode is focused on the release of Rails 6. David talks about the process of getting from Rails 5 to Rails 6 and some of the new features and frameworks in Rails 6. David describes some of the new features as ‘magical, which some people don’t like. He believes that the ‘magical’ eleme...

Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming language that is a functional programming language built for the front-end that compiles to JavaScript. Due to its set of enforced assumptions, it leads to clean code and powerful programming constructs. Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Richard...

Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals. Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put t...

Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for creating autonomous, competent developers when you hire someone who doesn't have as much experience. She walks us through setting expectations for the new hire, giving feedback, and assessing their performance. Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Emily Giurleo Sponsors Raygun |...

Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing. Panels Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Hilary Stohs-Krause Sponsors Audible.com Links Cognitive behavioral therapy Win–stay, lose–switch Picks John - Star Trek: Deep Spa...

Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ranges through troubleshooting complex systems, building team culture, blameless post-mortems, and monitoring the right things to make sure your applications don't fail or alert you when they do. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest...

  Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state. He starts by telling us how he...

Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, we chat about the lessons learned. Links https://railsconf.com/2020/video/jesse-spevack-mistakes-were-made https://akka.io/ https://love.devchat.tv/you-dont-know-js-yet-challenge40653095 https://www.driftingruby.com/learning_paths/stimulus-js https:/...

2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Charles Max Wood Links rails-hosting.com/2020 PicksChuck: https://www.goodre...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn how to actively improve debugging skills, train troubleshooting instincts and practical strategies for tackling brain-bending bugs. Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Charles Max Wood Guest Che...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths of Arel, ActiveRecord’s private API. We learn why writing custom SQL queries in 2020 can make sense and how to unlock the more powerful features of modern databases without resorting to SQL strings. Eric tells us how he manages the potential pitfalls of using Arel and achieves massi...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully get into coding and grow into a coding career. He talks about growing his YouTube channel, membership site, and deciding where you want to land in your career. Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson...

React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about creating a great developer experience with React and Rails, the best way to manage your webpack configuration, simplify server and client-side rendering and avoid shaving those yaks! Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel Jo...

Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the advantages over REST-based API queries and best practices for security and schemas. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Charles Max Wood Luke Stutters Guest Dmitry Tsepelev Links https://github.com/anycable/anycable https://graphql-ruby.org/ https://evilmarti...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why Rails developers would want to use it. Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Jonathan Reinink Links https://inertiajs.com https://reinink.ca/articles/introducing-inertia-js https://reinink.ca/ar...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the benefits they felt they received from implementing it. Ufuk also reveals a little bit about how Shopify transitioned to fully remote and about how that will be the default moving forward. Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Pan...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in Ruby for the Ruby 3×3 goal all while being humbled a bit as Takashi improves our understanding around the subject. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Takashi Kokubun Links https://github.com/mame/optcarrot medium.com/@k0kubun/jit-develop...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoringSponsor CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Dabbs Links https://github.com/github/scientist PicksJohn Epperson: Refactoring Cheatseets James Dabbs: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A tour of Unison Luke Stutters: Meet Author R.A. Salvat...

Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the rest of STEM) since the 1980s, reasons why women are leaving mid-career and how we can help reverse this trend. Tricia gives practical actions that can be taken to improve company culture, recruitment and retention of under-represented groups. Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to...

Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We discuss the lessons learned from Rails megaprojects and how to use these tips in your own projects to reduce technical debt and tools to keep your monolith majestic when the code won't stop coming. Panel Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Ky...