Ruby Rogues

Sebastian Wilgosz joins the Rogues to discuss Hanami, a web framework for Rubyists. He discusses how it works and how it differs from other Ruby based web frameworks. He also discusses what's coming down the pipe and how to get started. Check out his website at https://hanamimastery.com Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer Guest Sebastian Wilgosz Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Lin...

Vlado Cingel recounts his story where he needed common table expressions within SQL for a project he was working on and wrote a patch to AREL and ActiveRecord which he submitted to the Rails Core. Since it hasn't been accepted, he's supporting it as a gem. Vlado explains what Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are, how they work, and where they're used. Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Valentino Sto...

Kingsley Chijioke wrote an article breaking down the way that Ruby finds methods and determines which version of a method to run. The Rogues approach the internals of Ruby and discuss the implications of how this comes together and where the listeners may have seen this and point out any gotchas that arise. Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest King...

Ulysse Buonomo ran into an issue in the application he works on where the Heroku applications were taking up more and more memory. He began tracking down memory growth in the applications to keep the applications fast and keep the bills small. Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer John Epperson Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Ulysse Buonomo Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click...

Jorge Manrubia is a Security developer at BaseCamp. He discusses the encryption features added in Ruby on Rails and explains where they fit into the ecosystem for Hey.com. The panel jumps in to help discover how to help raise the privacy bar for your Ruby on Rails applications to protect personal and private information. Panel Darren Broemmer John Epperson Valentino Stoll Guest Jorge Manrubia Spon...

Riaz Virani joins the Rogues to discuss how to thrive at your first Dev Job. He has five main ideas that when applied will help you as a new developer fit in and learn quickly on a development team. The Rogues chime in with their experiences. They also discuss how not-so-new developers can apply these ideas either as mentors or as learners themselves. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura  John Epper...

Jeremy Evans joins the Rogues to discuss the way he builds Ruby programs and the practices he put into his latest book "Polished Ruby Programming."The Rogues dive into Jeremy's opinions. They push back on some, applaud others, and ask deeper questions about the rest. Join this deep dive by experienced developers into the how and why of organizing Ruby in deeply practiced ways. Polished Ruby Progra...

Cameron Dutro joins the Rogues to discuss RUX, a system for managing your View Components in Rails in a similar way to how React uses JSX to manage its Component views. He discusses how it works, how it goes together, and what inspired it. Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Cameron Dutro Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started...

Huzefa Biyawarwala joins the Rogues to discuss developer tooling around Docker and how it's used with Ruby and Rails. The Rogues join in and discuss the ways they've used Docker in their own setups and how they deploy apps using Docker and how Docker is used on their own development environment. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson  Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Huzefa Biyawarwala Sponsors D...

Michael Orr joins the Rogues to discuss how to move applications into Docker for development and production environments in Kubernetes. He walks the panel through the process of orchestrating a Rails setup in Kubernetes that you can run in the cloud. Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Michael Orr  Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to g...

Maxwell Anselm discusses the options that he's found to build multi-platform mobile applications. The panel chimes in on different options. Maxwell also goes into how he uses Ruby in non-Ruby codebases. Panel Darren Broemmer Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Maxwell Anselm Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv PodcastBootcamp.io Links The Definitive Guide to RUBY's...

Dave Kimura, John Epperson, Luke Stutters, Darren Broemmer, and Valentino Stoll talk about their experiences in setting up a maintainable development environment and discuss considerations when deploying to production. Panel Darren Broemmer Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Podca...

Alex Dunae joins the Rogues to discuss his experience introducing types into an existing codebase using the Sorbet gem and how it saved him and his company time, money, and effort. The conversation covers libraries and tools for working with types in Ruby. Panel Charles Max Wood Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Alex Dunae  Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Level Up | Devchat.tv Links GitHub...

Hans Schnedlitz joins the Rogues to discuss how you can use ActionCable to get feedback on ongoing tasks in the commandline by connecting to a websocket. His solution is written entirely in Ruby and provides some interesting options for people building CLI's for their applications. Panel Charles Max Wood Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Hans Schnedlitz  Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Rayg...

Takashi Kokubun joins the Rogues to dive into Just in Time compiling, Ruby 3.0 and all the goodness that comes with it. He explains how it relates not only to Ruby performance, but Rails performance and what it means to different kinds of loads that come across the Ruby virtual machine. Panel Darren Broemmer Valentino Stoll Guest Takashi Kokubun Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Ruby 3 JI...

Milap Neupane joins the Rogues to talk about how to know how robust your Rails apps are. Sometimes you forget to optimize database queries or network calls for performance during development, which impact the load that the application can support and when its performance begins to degrade. Milap breaks down how to determine where these moments occur and what to do to get better performance from yo...

Fabio Perrella joins the Rogues to discuss debugging Ruby programs and how to find problems across your code and your dependencies. The panel shares their stories and experience to dive into debugging tools and techniques they've used that have worked out well in the apps they maintain. Panel Darren Broemmer John Epperson Luke Stutters Valentino Stoll Guest Fabio Perrella Sponsors Dev Influencers...

Jeremy Evans, author of the Roda framework, joins the Rogues to talk about how to use Roda to build Ruby web applications. Roda is a super lightweight framework that adds features through plugins to give you the power you need when you need it to build your applications. This allows you to bring in only what you need in order to get fast and easy to maintain code. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimur...

Jason Dinsmore went spelunking through the changelogs for Rails and pulled out the latest features for the most popular Ruby web development framework. Jason and the Rogues go through the changes and discuss the upcoming changes in Rails 7.Panel Charles Max Wood Darren Broemmer Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Jason Dinsmore Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links What's Cooking in...

The Ruby fiber scheduler is a powerful new feature in Ruby that we brought Wander Hillen along to discuss with us. Ruby fibers are a way of managing threading and concurrency within Ruby. This episode explains uses that can come from the fiber scheduler and what it offers in doing work outside the main process to increase efficiency. Panel Darren Broemmer John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Wander H...

Jake Yesbeck joins the Rogues this week to talk about how to handle models and data migrations in your Ruby on Rails applications. He and the Rogues discuss the pros and cons of including models in your Rails migrations and the strategies for migrating data as part of migrating your database structure. The panel then dives into Jake’s year of contributing to open source each day. What he learned a...

Masafumi Okura is the organizer of Kaigi on Rails and the author of the Alba--a JSON serializer library. The Rogues dive in and get the details on Kaigi on Rails and discuss how to serialize data into JSON within your application. They also discuss why we need another JSON serializer library and which options Alba offers. Panel Dave Kimura Darren Broemmer Luke Stutters Guest Masafumi Okura Sponsor...

Christian Clausen is the author of the book Five Lines of Code in the Manning Early Access Program. He advocates for a rule based refactoring system. One of the rules he uses is refactoring your methods to be five lines of code. Listen in to hear him explain why five lines of code matters and how to get there. Panel John Epperson Guest Christian Clausen Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun...

Dave Kimura and Luke Stutters talk with Mark Hutter about Active Storage and his experience building a large image driven application. We talk about some of the issues and workarounds when implementing Active Storage. Panel Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest Mark Hutter Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links The Speedshop Ruby on Rails Performance Blog Active storage add proxying - GitHub Ruby on...

Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills...