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The Bike Shed

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On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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5: Rails is Not Your Architecture 31.12.2014 39:10

Derek and Sean discuss various ways of taking the Rails out of your Ruby on Rails application, what folder to put your files in, and the difficulties and rewards of learning new programming languages. Rails Does Not Define Your Application Architecture What the hell is a service object ? Fuzzy file finding with ctrl-p Query Objects Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture Form Objects Scala Play forms Haske...

4: Put Everything on the Front End 12.12.2014 38:20

Derek and Sean discuss hunting Rails performance regressions and techniques for improving performance in your web applications. Speeding Up Rails 4.2 StackProf Flame Graphs 5 Reasons to Use Protocol Buffers Instead of JSON For Your Next Service Key Frames Binary Search Algorithm Writing Fast Ruby from Erik Micahels-Ober The select and pluck methods Fragment Caching Exposing CSRF token refresh in t...

3: Flipping the Script 28.11.2014 25:37

Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead. destructiring assignment in JavaScript function currying in CoffeeScript The existential operator in CoffeeScript Stockholm syndrome CoffeeScript writes better JavaScript than you ES5 Compatibility Chart : When can I use map , reduce and forEach ? Underscore.js remove...

2: Rails 4.2 17.11.2014 35:51

Derek and Sean discuss Sean's commit access to Rails, what's coming in Rails 4.2, and how to go about making Rails code better. Ylan Segal wrote us to raise a clarification on one of Sandi's rules discussed in episode #1. Ernie Miller's RailsConf Talk The Rails 4.2 release notes . Sean's work on the attributes API . Aaron Patterson explains Adequate Record Aaron Patterson discusses adequate record...

1: Sandi & Derek's Rules 31.10.2014 27:48

Sean and Derek discuss lessons learned from following Sandi Metz' rules on a project and the overall impact of rules on code. Sandi Metz' Rules Ruby Rogues, episode #87 , where Sandi tells us the rules at 1 hour, 18 minutes, 27 seconds in. Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby , or POODR, is an excellent book you should all check out. God classes thoughtbot's Ruby style guidelines wherein we di...