Ruby Rogues

In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior developer to successful senior software engineer. Dylan and the rogues talk about on-boarding junior developers and building up confidence. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Dylan Andrews Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of yo...

As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our applications. WebAuthn is a standard that allows you to accept biometric, device based, and other types of authentication as a second or first factor. Gonzalo and Braulio have published a gem that allows you to add webauthn to your Ruby applications and have joined the Rogues to tal...

 John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the Rogues through the ins and outs of building a PWA and what it’s like adding the features you need to get a PWA set up on Rails. It turns out to be surprisingly straightforward and yet has a ton of potential. Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Charles Max Wood Guest John Beatty Sponsors Scou...

  Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet" In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors in a service-based system and how to prioritize what errors to fix. He goes into how to recognize the errors when they are creeping in and so much more. Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Thompson...

Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the spiritual successor to ActiveResource. It provides a convenient way to provide an API that understands the object graph in your application without needing to resort to GraphQL.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Lee Richmond Sponsors Resolve...

Joel Hawksley is an engineer at Github who works on some of their Rails architecture. He is one of the authors of the view_component gem. He walks the Rogues through the genesis of the project and the pros and cons of using a library like view_component and how it adds testability and easy management to Rails views. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest Joel Hawksley Sponsors Reso...

Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions, thereby getting their input in situations where we otherwise would not. She provides some tips for extroverts to invite the input, Luke brings his patented sarcasm to the table, we discuss some pitfalls and Dee really brings some fantastic advice to the table for those trying to moder...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation starts with a discussion of what mutation testing is. They discuss the benefits and approaches before diving into implementation details. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Dave Aronson Sponsors Springboard | $500 Scho...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at RailsConf about abstract Object Oriented programming ideas and how they can be expressed with pictures. The discussion goes into learning processes and how to create visual representations that help people understand Ruby, Rails, or other concepts. P...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Dave has been upgrading some of his Rails apps. Chuck has gone through several upgrades in his past work and is working on some apps that need the upgrade. Listen to 2 veteran Rails developers talk through the issues of upgrade from different versions of Rails to the latest version. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Sponsors Resolve Dig...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Sean Marcia organizes Ruby For Good—an organization for building technology to solve the world's problems and an in person meetup held online this year. Sean talks about founding Ruby For Good and some of the projects it has been responsible for creating. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Sean Marcia Sponsors Sprin...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! This episode is a roundup discussion about what the podcast hosts have going on these days. John talks about going freelance working on Ruby, Rails, and React Native. John and Chuck riff on the pros and cons of React Native. Luke then jumps in and talks about a crash-and-burn he ran into with building reports. John sympathizes based on h...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Daniel Colson, from Thoughtbot and maintainer of Factory Bot, joins Dave Kimura, Luke Sutters, Tom Rossi, and John Epperson and discuss the transition from a Music career to a development career. We also dive into Factory Bot and its use cases. Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Tom Rossi Luke Stutters Guest Daniel Colson Sponsors Resolve D...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now!  We talk with Vladimir Dementyev about Ruby Next, its use cases and why you might want to get features from newer versions of Ruby in your current versionPanel Dave Kimura John Epperson Tom Rossi Guest Vladimir Dementyev ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job"...

Chris O’Sullivan joins the Rogues to talk about the people who influenced Ruby and how it’s shaped the community and technology we have today. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest Chris O'Sullivan Sponsors Resolve Digital ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on A...

David Kimura and John Epperson talk with Ian Norris on his experiences with Pair Programming. We discuss misconceptions, when pair programming works and when it doesn’t, remote paring and different types of pair programming. Panel: Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest: Ian Norris Sponsors: Resolve Digital ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your...

Colin Fulton has written a Ruby implementation in assembly for the Apple II. He's also got a fondness for the impossible and impractical applications of software. He walks through how he approached writing a somewhat limited version of Ruby for a old and limited machine. He also talks through other ways to explore the limits of Ruby and other programming languages. Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kim...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Zachary and the panelists speak about doing small projects. They cover half-done projects, when is a project really “done” and staying focused. An unfinished project is not a failure and making a small project helps to make a complete project. Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Guest Zachary Schroeder Sponsors Resolve Digital RedisGreen ________________________________...

Jon Druse is a developer from Tennessee and has been using Rails for 15 years. He starts the show by sharing some of the background behind his RailsConf talk “How To Lose 50 Milion Records in 5 Minutes” and the various mistakes that were made that lead to such a dramatic loss. The loss of these records lead the company to refactor and rewrite the entire app in MongoDB. Jon talks about the decision...

Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad are on the Oracle developer relations team. Karthik has been on Ruby Rogues previously, and he explains how he went from the Kubernetes team to developer relations. They begin the show by explaining what Kafka is, the leading open-source event streaming platform that Oracle is compatible with. It allows cloud developers to build, publish, and subscribe models for st...

Today the panel is talking about their development environments and preferences. Most of them run on Macs, but they talk about other operating systems. They discuss some of the pros and cons of using Apple products. While Apple has conveniences to help you restore data, many of them have had issues with cabling and the fact that Macs are not easily extendable. They agree that the speed at which a...

Mithun leads development relations at HERE Technologies which specializes in building location services and location platforms. A lot of location is so seamlessly integrated we don’t even have to think about it, but it’s quite complex. He talks about how location services work, such as a ride-sharing app. He talks about some of the tools and data available from HERE Technologies for people who wan...

Brittany Martin, Lead Web Developer at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust joins the panel today to talk about her talk "Rails Against The Machine". She has given this talk at Southeast Ruby, Rubyconf MY and Ruby on Ice. Brittany Martin works for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as the nonprofit’s Lead Web Developer, where she is part of the team that develops, supports and maintains the Trust’s ticketing...

Sven Akerman Jr. is the chief architect at Outlook Insight. Today he and the panel are talking about the process behind development, specifically how Sven helped improve the software development process at his previous employer. When he started, they had a formal Scrum/Agile process for the first 5 years, but recognized gaps using key performance indicators like turnaround time. So the company imp...

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at GitLab Commit 2019. Eddie Zaneski from Digital Ocean talks about "Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 minutes", Shamiq Islam from Coinbase talks about "Closing the SDLC Loop- Automating Security" and Jasmine James, from Delta Airlines, discusses " How Delta Became Cloud Native-Avoiding the Vendor Lock".E...