The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss hypothetical changes to Rails routing before turning their attention toward hunting memory bloat and the proposal that strings be frozen by default in Ruby 3. The Bike Shed listeners make disable_with default on submit_tag Derek tries to explain the trouble with unrestricted routes to a client. The trouble with singular resources and form_for Use derailed benchmarks to find...

Sean is joined by Mike Burns to discuss what Ruby and Rails can learn from Python and Django. Mike Burns Python's map Django George's Sleeping with the Enemy talk from RailsConf 2013 A False Midnight Python doctest Python Decorator Library

Did you know Rails has no integration test suite? What could go wrong? ActionController::Parameters no longer inherits from Hash

Sean and Derek circle back on HTTP before diving into unsafe rust, and finally the merits of a small standard library. HTTP2 implementation status libffmpeg unsafe rust uninitialized memory in Rust stdx - the missing batteries of Rust NPM 3.0.0 NPM Shrinkwrap

This week, Sean and Derek discuss performance and inheriting code. In a stroke of complete madness, Derek decides that turbolinks isn't that bad. Spree Browserscope network profile details RFC2616 is Dead Original HTTP/1.1 connection limit Updated HTTP/1.1 connection specification removes the specific limit cloud-to-butt turbolinks jquery.turbolinks async script loading Disabling form buttons with...

Derek is joined by Gordon Fontenot for a discussion of the JSON API specification, problems consuming it from Swift, and the future of functional programming in Swift. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School : Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links / Show Notes J...

Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues big and small. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School : Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show Notes Speed Science - Richard's Railsc...

Sean gives Derek a tour of Rust, a new systems language from Mozilla. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School : Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Rust The Rust Programming Language Guaranteeing Memory Safety in Rust Rust traits Cargo include_str! Pattern matching...

Eileen Uchitelle joins the show to discuss performance improvements to ActiveRecord, speeding up integration tests, and contributing to or running open source projects. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School : Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show No...

Rails Core Team member Godfrey Chan joins the show to demystify rails bug hunting and contributing. Godfrey's RailsConf talk: Prying Open The Black Box The Waltons Say Goodnight Canada gem Rails Bug Templates Rails Contributing Guide Travis Container Infrastructure Vancouver Ruby Group Godfrey on Twitter

We're joined by Josh Clayton to discuss our differing strategies on testing view behavior, strategies for dealing with brittle feature specs, and what types of tests each of us favor. Verifying partial doubles Decent exposure Defining helpers directly on the view in view specs Don't stub the system under test Clearance Back Door Automatic form filling driven by i18n and Factory Girl with Formulaic...

Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest. RSpec 3 adds composable matchers Spies were added to RSpec in 2.14 Using any_instance to test legacy code minitest RSpec's stub_const method. Don't Stub the System Under Test assigns and assert_template are deprecated in Rails 5 Sam's RailsConf talk: Understanding Rails Test...

Sean and Derek discuss rails asset dependencies before diving into an overview of animation techniques and C extensions. Rails Assets Gemify Assets for Rails Non-digested asset names in Rails 4 Animation Rigging Unreal Engine Unity Physically Based Rendering The Carmack Constant or Fast Inverse Square Root Bending the Curve: Writing Safe & Fast Native Gems With Rust

We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies. Sam Saffron Discourse rack-mini-profiler stackprof RubyBench default_scope SQL Views Scenic - Database view support in Rails Grafana Docker Types of Rails schema dumps Message Bus Logster Feedback? You can tweet us , email us , or leave a comment on our website .

Grab Bag! Derek and Sean talk about math, augmented reality, RailsConf wrap up, Minimum Viable Products, Accessibility... Homography Isomorphism Homomorphism Sean's Augmented Reality PoC Kerbal Space Program Derek's talk on Cultivating Code Review Culture Sean's talk on Designing a Great Ruby API Attributes API documentation Minimum Viable Product Chandra Carney 's talk on Programming with Accessi...

Sean, Derek, and Sarah Mei talk about conference speaking, refactoring, and OO vs FP problems. Sarah Mei What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing Conway's Law Will Ruby 3.0 Be Statically Typed? Sarah on Twitter

This week, we're joined by DHH and discuss microservices, monoliths, shared abstractions, and the fate of Action Cable. DHH's Keynote Microservices Sacrificial Architecture Scaling Mercurial at Facebook has_secure_password BCrypt Request Forgery Protection error_messages_for removed in Rails 3 Sandi Metz on the cost of the wrong abstraction WebSockets Event Machine Faye Basecamp

Live from RailsConf, Aaron Patterson joins the show to talk about Rails 5, Rack 2, Contributing to Open Source, and cats. We also field audience questions. Video-version of this podcast! DHH's RailsConf Keynote Aaron's RailsConf Keynote Action Cable Long Polling TurboLinks Ember RFC Process Rack 2 Neko Atsume ( also on Android ) Ruby Together Chicken Scheme Awful Offal Node/IO Fork Agile Web Devel...

Derek and Sean talk about naming, debugging, and the anxiety of conference talks. Sean fixes Android tooling in one line. Martin Fowler on naming objects after patterns Dash for OS X Alfred for OS X The beauty of Intellisense in Visual Studio Derek's bundle search command Ruby Mine Sean's talk at windy city rails How to talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein

Sean and Derek talk about the state of Android tooling, refactoring journeys, and an approach to rails form objects. Dalvik executables limited to 65,536 methods ProGuard Stylesheet limits in Internet Explorer A refactoring jounrney in animated gif form. Simple Form wrappers ScalaForms Type-safe URLs in Yesod Django forms Batching up touch calls Issues with uniqueness validations

Pat Brisbin joins Derek to discuss the many advantages of Haskell programming. note: at 27:01 Pat says "referential integrity" when he meant " referential transparency "; he's very sorry. Maybe Haskell 50% off xmonad tiling window manager Learn You A Haskell Carnival - Open source, Haskell-powered commenting for the Giant Robots Blog Pointfree Style How to say dots and dollars The Maybe data type...

Sean and Derek discuss Monoliths, Service Oriented Architecture, and the new Adapter Specific Type Registry in Rails 5. Guest Sean Furret Haskell and tmux Upcase trails. Hashie Considered Harmful Adapter Specific Type Registry

Derek and Sean discuss what the Attributes API enables, the addition of Relation#or and paid open source. Sean's attributes API is "finished" Attributes API documentation PostGIS ActiveRecord Adapter composed_of Yehuda's RailsConf Keynote on the power of shared abstractions. Ernie Miller's RailsConf talk on the consequences of Rails' abstractions. load_schema makes sense now. DelegateClass Steve K...

Derek and Sean talk trade schools, sneaky bugs, bad method names, before_filters, and the Superbowl. Turing School and Metis trade schools. "Car Wash" by Rose Royce Sean introduces accessed_fields to the ActiveRecord Attributes API. Peek for insights into your rails app. Bullet for hunting down N+1 queries and unused eager loading. What does Faraday middleware look like? The Clearance redirect loo...

Sean and Derek discuss thoughtful deprecations, backwards compatibility, and other joys of library maintenance. Trailblazer Clearance Ember 2.0 - Stability without Stagnation Ruby 2.2 on Rails 3.2 . Now merged, but unreleased. The original removal of ARel type casting Narrowing the scope - a less impactful ARel deprecation Rails changes to accompany the ARel API changes. An example of an issue the...