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Remote RubyRuby 3.3 Preview 1 & The Mystery Of The 3 Inch Round Button On this episode of Remote Ruby, Jason, Chris, and Andrew begin by sharing their thoughts on some shows they’re watching such as “White House Plumbers,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and “Seinfeld.” The conversation then shifts towards the exciting release of Ruby 3.3 Preview 1, which focuses on performance improvements for YJIT and the introduction of compiler RJIT. They dive into the challenges of implementing autosaving and error display forms using Turbo and Hotwire in Rails. Then, the conversation takes a turn towards serverless function, with Andrew sharing his experiences using Vercel, and a discussion on Hatchbox and Fly for hosting applications, and the appeal...
2023-05-2638 min
Remote RubyAmanda Perino - The Rails Foundation Bet? On this episode of Remote Ruby Jason and Andrew make a bet. The timer is set for ten minutes, and if Andrew loses, Jason gets to find out his mysterious middle name. Cleophus, Herkimer, Phalange??? The question is, will Jason find out? In the meantime, we’re very excited to welcome our special guest, Amanda Perino, who’s the Executive Director for The Rails Foundation. Today, we’ll discuss The Rails Foundation, some initiatives that are underway, such as Rails World Conference scheduled for October 2023 in Amsterdam, some things in the works with improving documentation, and how the Rails Fo...
2023-04-2136 min
Remote RubyOptimizing Ruby JIT Compilers with Takashi Kokubun On this episode of Remote Ruby, Jason and Andrew are here, and they are thrilled to have with them, Takashi Kokubun, a Staff Developer at Shopify. He’s here to talk about JIT (just-in-time) compilers in Ruby and why we would want to use one in Ruby. We’ll hear about his work on YJIT and RJIT, the differences between YJIT and MJIT, and how the primary focus is to make YJIT the best JIT compiler for real-world Ruby apps. There’s a conversation about the use of Rust in JIT compiler development for Ruby, and Takashi shares...
2023-04-1447 min
Remote RubyWe're the gem exec(utives) On today’s episode of Remote Ruby, the conversation begins with Jason, Chris and Andrew discussing their experiences with podcasting and how they started. Then, the conversation takes a shift to discussing using the latest version of RubyGems in Bundler, the addition of a new feature called, gem exec, that allows for easy running of executables from gems that may or may not be installed, and more about GemX. Twitter’s new algorithm is mentioned, along with someone who leaked Twitter’s source code on GitHub. Chris talks about some frustrating experiences with his Rails for Beginner’s Course that he’s...
2023-04-0745 min
Remote RubyJason and Andrew Brain Dump | RailsConf, Shoes, DragonRuby, ChatGPT4, Python, mRuby Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! It’s Jason and Andrew today and do they have so much to talk about. RailsConf 2023 is coming up, Andrew booked his flight and lodging early, Jason announces he’s doing a podcast with Brittany while they’re there, and the guys discuss how their ADHD is so different from each other. Then they discuss npx, the benefits of using it, and how it can be useful in Ruby. Jason and Andrew talk about building user interfaces in Ruby, creating games with DragonRuby, learning Rust and Python for hardware projects, and using...
2023-03-3139 min
Remote RubyBeagleBones, mRuby, and Devise 4.9 with Hotwire support! On this episode of Remote Ruby, it’s another “Five Minutes of Nothing About Our Show” as the guys discuss Police Academy and the comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, a picture of Chris’s son dressed in Adidas gear, and Jason’s dilemma finding Adidas gear. Now back to our regularly scheduled podcast topics, as Jason decided he needed a new hobby, so he bought a BeagleBone Black. We’ll hear how he used Elixir Nerves, Circuits, and some Ruby programming languages he’s been tinkering with. The guys discuss trying mruby, DragonRuby, Pi-hole, and Zeus. Also, after two years, devise 4.9.0 was released tha...
2023-03-0338 min
Remote RubyConcurrency Problems Bro [00:01:52] There’s a Remote Uber Eats Food Review going on here.[00:07:20] Andrew explains the new Stimulus Outlets API and what it does.[00:12:58] Jason talks about this week and dealing with isolated things that are decoupled and battling race conditions with events firing. Chris mentions it has concurrency problems and makes things much harder. [00:16:14] Speaking of webhooks, Jason shifts gears and tells us about a Tweet from Wes Bos that ruined his morning. Also, he explains that he’s only been doing connected webhooks on Job Bo...
2023-02-1051 min
Remote RubyFinding Ruby, Scaling a Business on Rails, and Public Speaking with Nadia Odunayo Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! It’s a full house this week as Jason, Chris, and Andrew are back together! They also have a great guest joining them, Nadia Odunayo, who’s the Founder, CEO, and Software Developer of The StoryGraph, a book tracking, and recommendations app. Nadia spoke at the Rails SaaS Conference and her talk was titled, “Getting to one million users as a one-woman dev team.” After listening to this episode, you’ll understand why she’s such an engaging speaker. Today, Nadia shares her journey of how she got into programming and building...
2023-01-2057 min
Remote RubyData Migrations in Rails [00:03:40] Andrew tells us a little bit about a book he read recently called, ADHD 2.0, and Chris ponders the future of baby proofing his house. [00:08:53] Chris got ahead over the past few months and finally recorded a new Screencast that will be out very soon, he patched a bunch of things in Pay on the Braintree side and tells us about the migration that was done. [00:16:29] When Chris runs this long running task, he explains how he just made it a rake task. Also, if you’re a student, and you...
2023-01-1355 min
Remote RubyTech The Halls [00:04:42] Jason and Andrew had an incident at work, they were bamboozled, and we find out what happened. [00:05:40] In other Ruby news, here is where the laughs begin…Andrew sent a picture to Jason declaring that an adult human hand can fit inside an eagle’s talon. Is this true?[00:07:30] We find out what did Andrew do with code this week that was so terrible, and Andrew gives us an example of something he’s had to do three times, and Chris explains his issue with physically printing a PDF to debu...
2022-12-2340 min
Remote RubyActive Record Cookbook & Making Bomb Rails Apps [00:02:16] Jason shares a story of Chris Seaton when he was on an earlier episode of a Remote Ruby Podcast.[00:03:34] Another Hanami livestream was done by Jason that you can check out now, and he tells us how they modified a Changeset to use bcrypt to encrypt a password.[00:07:56] Chris recommends checking out Advent of Code with CJ Avilla on YouTube. Also, the guys share thoughts on the fear of rejection and the benefits of teaching, learning, and people learning with you when you may not know all the answers. ...
2022-12-1640 min
Remote RubyJason gets Twitchy with Hanami [00:00:56] Jason did his Hanami livestream on Twitch, he explains the app he built, how Hanami brought in 2 people from the dry-rb team who brought their ideas from there and rom-rb. Also, what’s so cool about Hanami 2.0?[00:06:45] Dry-rb gems are so nice and the guys discuss what they like about them. [00:08:25] Find out why Andrew became a Twitch mod for Jason. [00:09:59] Jason mentioned earlier that the parameters are done at the controller level, and he explains how Laravel does the same thing. He also expl...
2022-12-0945 min
Remote RubyNew Ruby versions, the Pay gem, and the new GitHub file browser [00:03:33] We learn about a new Ruby version that came out with a CGI security fix. [00:04:30] Ruby 3.2.0 is supposed to come out at Christmas, there’s a Preview 3 out and we hear about a few new features happening.[00:07:47] Chris tells us about some speed improvements with Regexp.[00:08:58] Andrew and Jason paired with Collin and other people, and he tells us what they did with a PR in the pay Gem.[00:12:25] Chris pulls up the Shopify Globe that shows sales per min...
2022-12-0234 min
Remote RubyTip Tapping Around & The Rails Foundation [00:02:28] Jason dives right in talking about Tiptap, a text editor for the web.[00:06:05] The controversial Twitter is brought up, as well as Reddit, Mastodon, and Ruby Social.[00:07:04] We go back to Tiptap the database, as Jason goes in depth into active ActionText and what he’s exploring now. [00:10:28] Jason mentions Tiptap will let you send HTML and explains why he likes the flexibility, and he shares his ideas of wanting to build Ruby Objects to represent each type of node. Andrew and Chris share their though...
2022-11-2550 min
Remote RubyBridgetownConf, Pagination, HTTP/3 & Actionable Errors [00:01:21] We hear about Andrew’s talk at BridgetownConf.[00:07:31] Since Chris is getting up so early these days, he talks about how productive he feels programming early mornings and late nights, and Andrew shares how addicting it can be to slip into the zone and end up working into the wee hours of the night. [00:08:47] Chris brings up a college memory and having different sleep schedules, and he gives an update from last week’s convo about the new updated missing template error page.[00:15:29] Andrew had a...
2022-11-1839 min
Remote RubyHey Alexa, Chris Needs Some Sleep [00:01:03] Chris explains how he built a Rails app for Alexa to keep track of feeding times for the baby. [00:06:21] Chris and Andrew chat about the pros of having lights in and around the house with WiFi connected, the cons with programing them, and Andrew explains if you’re putting something on Lambda, you can only use Ruby 2.7.[0011:24] This Week in Rails updates is the PR for improving the text for the no template message, as Chris explains. [00:19:20] We hear a quick thought Andrew has for...
2022-11-1136 min
Remote RubyKevin Newton on Ruby Parser, SyntaxTree, Prettier Ruby and a sneak peek! [00:01:52] Jason and Andrew catch up on what they’ve been working on. Apparently, they’ve both been working on making Dynamic Open Graph Images. Andrew used Vercel and Jason took a different route.[00:05:11] Kevin details the recent news about rewriting Ruby Parser.[00:07:50] If you’re new to Ruby or not familiar with Parser, Kevin explains what a Parser is how it’s used in Ruby. [00:09:54] We find out how SyntaxTree works with what Kevin’s doing now on Ruby Parser.[00:13:00...
2022-11-0450 min
Remote RubyDevelopment Workflows with Collin Jilbert [00:00:39] Go Rails and Discord went crazy for Go Rails this morning, Collin talks about putting out the fires. This reminds Andrew of the issue he had with his dotfiles once. Admit it, we’ve all been there before! [00:05:31] Collin is enjoying his minimal config setup lately. Andrew talks about how he likes using Znap! to help him with his dot files and reduce his shell’s startup time.[00:06:43] Andrew talks more about minimalizing his setup by getting rid of aliases he’s not using every couple months, as well as plug...
2022-10-2844 min
Remote RubyRails SaaS and a Shaved Stache [00:04:11] Jason and Andrew have a chat about seeing Drew Bragg at the Rails SaaS Conference and things they enjoyed about it.[00:07:50] We hear about all the talks at the conference from Nadia Odunayo, Joe Masilotti, Michael Buckbee, Don Pottinger, Adam Pallozzi, and Saron Yitbarek.[00:15:27] We learn why the guys had to leave the intergalactic cantina early, and they tell us about more of the talks from Todd Dickerson, Colleen Schnettler, Evan Phoenix, and Mike Coutermarsh.[00:21:26] Jason’s explains his fun talk on the Rails Re...
2022-10-2130 min
Remote RubyRails Hackathon 2022 & Turbo 7.2 release [00:01:01] Andrew explains how he had to make a complex data table.[00:03:27] Chris talks about an entry at Rails Hackathon called “Con[text]” for learning Spanish and English.[00:05:07] We learn about some of the cool improvements with the new Turbo release.[00:11:08] Chris tells us everything that went on at Rails Hackathon, and he tells us the winner of the Judges’ Favorite which was Typefighters by Team Rubades.[00:13:42] Find out more about the Best Solo/Community Favorite award given to Jim Jones’...
2022-09-3041 min
Remote RubyYou Gotta Risk It For The Brisket [00:00:15] What is this cursed idea thing Andrew did with Storybook?[00:05:31] Andrew mentioned using MDX format and he tells us what it is, Chris brings up the PHP days and components, and Andrew talks about architecture. [00:10:51] Being a visual person, Andrew explains another thing he really likes about Storybook.[00:17:29] Jason talks about finding his Zen using Tailwind in a project. [00:20:25] Chis wonders if Jason runs into issues with having to undo some of the stuff, and Jason explains how he’s be...
2022-09-2343 min
Remote RubyPhlexing with Joel Drapper [00:03:50] Joel tells us about himself, what led him to creating Phlex, and what problem he was trying to solve with it.[00:08:13] We find out the testing story and how the reception has been with Phlex.[00:13:45] Andrew brings up how Joel has been doing a lot of performance stuff with Phlex and Joel explains how he’s making the benchmarks and how he’s figuring out all these performance things.[00:16:53] Joel shares some interesting things he’s tried that were easy and one that had the bi...
2022-09-1637 min
Remote RubyThe brand new Hatchbox.io v2 [00:02:23] The guys discuss DHH and the release candidate of Turbo v7.2.0.[00:07:13] Andrew asks if we can do Postgres in the browser now, why do we need to build these complex forms and tables? Jason and Chris explain it to him.[00:12:51] The guys chat about customized license plates, car tags, and Jason owing Andrew $163. [00:15:37] The discussion turns to Hatchbox, Chris updated the DNS to point to the new version, Jason tells us about using it with Job Boardly, and they talk about using clusters. ...
2022-09-0950 min
Remote RubyRubygem Idea for Juniors, Modern Assets in Rails & George Jetson's Birthday [00:07:35] Andrew shares a free gem idea for Juniors or people who’ve never built a gem before. [00:10:20] Jason brings up a previous episode with Konnor Rogers where they talked about migrating Podia off Webpacker, and the guys chat more about that.[00:17:56] Jason was looking something up for JavaScript and he tells us he couldn’t get Google to give him any results that weren’t for jQuery, and Chris talks about the interesting idea that Rails could sort of simplify Webpack with Webpacker, which they’ve done with jQuery, Prototype...
2022-08-1244 min
Remote RubyGem Mining & Advice on Mentoring Developers [00:02:46] Andrew tells us about being on the Rubber Duck Dev Show livestream with Collin Jilbert. [00:05:14] Have you ever used Alfred? Andrew fills us in on the app and Raycast. [00:12:15] Chris explains the “gem mining” he’s been doing.[00:16:38] Andrew and Chris chat about using SQLite.[00:20:41] Andrew asks Chris if he ever thinks how much extra code it is to have to support all these different things. Chris explains why he doesn’t think it be a whole lot. ...
2022-08-051h 02
Remote RubyJunior Devs, Mentoring, and Training with Adam Cuppy [00:06:03] Adam gives us a brief intro and we find out about the talk he gave at RubyConf 2015 called, What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby.[00:09:33] We hear Adam’s background, his journey to programming, and Co-founding Zeal.[00:14:21] Adam fills us in on where he learned Rails, and the resources he used for learning Ruby on Rails.[00:24:52] We learn what triggers Andrew about everybody saying there’s Rails jobs but they’re all looking for Seniors, and then we find out what Adam is doing to get more i...
2022-07-2959 min
Remote RubyJoined by Konnor Rogers Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! We’ve been trying to have our guest on for a really long time, and that time is here folks! Today, we're joined by Konnor Rogers, a Developer at Microsoft known for his knowledge of all things front-end. On this episode, we’ll hear Konnor’s journey from being an EMT, getting into tech, and Andrew introducing him to Snowpack. Konnor tells us more about a new JavaScript runtime called Bun, his go-to Vite Ruby, and using Import Maps as a start tool. The guys have some deep conversations about ESBuild...
2022-07-2258 min
Remote RubyFor the love of Sass & Podia's new Free plan [00:01:18] Bridgetown 1.1 beta is out, we hear what kind of cool stuff it does, and a demo Andrew did for Bridgetown Torchlight.[00:08:54] Jason brings up Podia’s UI library and the problems they had with it, and Andrew tells him he’s been plotting to pull the library back out. [00:12:42] Why does Andrew hate Sass?[00:15:34] The guys chat about Safari, issues with it, and how they’re getting better. Andrew talks about a Raindrop extension that can also be done on your phone.
2022-06-1757 min
Remote RubyLive(ish) Podcast Panel from Railsconf 2022! [00:00:00] Jemma Issroff: Live from Portland at rails comp 2020. We're recording a podcast panel crossover episode. I'm Gemma is off one of the co-hosts of the Ruby on rails podcast. I'll be moderating this panel. We have five podcasts represented here across eight panelists. We're going to go around to start and hear what all everyone is excited about.For rails comp. First up, we have Brittany Martin from the Ruby on rails podcast. Brittany, what talker workshop are you most looking forward to? [00:00:29] Brittany Martin: I have to admit I'm going to go with a m...
2022-06-0142 min
Remote RubySteve Three-peat Polito Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! Today the guys cover bet, basketball, and Adidas! And if we haven’t lost you yet, we have a “Three-peat” guest joining us, and that is Steve Polito, who’s a Developer at thoughtbot. We’ll be talking with Steve about careers around programming, the importance of practicing Code Review, and great emojis to use for a good PR Review. We also find out from Steve how the non-technical/technical interview was like, how Rails helped him get better at architecture, he shares some recommendations on ways you can get a job if you...
2022-05-2740 min
Remote RubyDealing With Perfectionism As A Developer [00:02:49] Jason and Andrew have been working on some GitHub actions and what’s been going on with that. Also, Jason and Chris challenge Andrew to do the typing speed test before the end of this episode! ☺[00:06:07] We hear about a cool thing Andrew’s been working on, Chris and Jason tell us they ran out of build minutes, and Andrew mentions “act” to test your Actions locally.[00:08:54] Chris and Jason have a great discussion on perfectionism and writing code, and they share their struggles.[00:27:23] Chris asks...
2022-05-201h 04
Remote RubyPower Rangers & Building Products [00:03:34] Chris tells us about Command Pallet, Ninja Keys, and Lit element.[00:09:25] Andrew asks the guys if they’ve looked at Shoelace style, he talks about using Bridgetown Quick Search plugin and Chris and Andrew talk about using CSS variables.[00:12:05] Andrew educates the guys on CSS Toggles since an unofficial draft is out.[00:19:52] We hear more from Chris about the Command Pallet stuff he put into a Jumpstart and what it’s like to implement it, and how he found the Ninja Keys library.
2022-04-291h 07
Remote RubyRuby 3.2, Conventional Commits, and release-please [00:03:05] Chris tells us more about the bug he was trying to fix, working on Stripe tax support, Stripe payment element and addresses, and he fills us in on a JavaScript tool that Shopify for formatting addresses in different countries that makes Andrew sweat.[00:07:28] As a follow up from last week’s episode, Andrew defines “Posterized.”[00:08:06] The guys chat about WebAssembly stuff.[00:11:49] Andrew talks about playing around with mruby, and Chris tells us about what he did with a Raspberry Pi.[00...
2022-04-1544 min
Remote RubyIts Always Sinny In Las Vegas aka Sin City Ruby [00:00:58] It’s Day 1, Jason and Andrea got to ride in Andrew’s mustang and Jason now feels like a cool, hip Boomer and Andrew is sporting the Adidas wardrobe as usual. [00:04:11] The guys tell us that Drew Bragg gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks they’ve ever seen, as well as Chris Seaton from Shopify. [00:05:11] The guys discuss some other great talks with Kelly Sutton, talking about Sidekick, Matthias Lee, a twelve-year old, who gave a great talk on the history of Vim, and Thai Wood who did...
2022-04-0844 min
Remote RubyJason and Andrew Answer the Twitters [00:02:40] The first Tweet is: Haml? Jason does two live readings of a Haml file. [00:05:24] Next question: Someone wants to know how to cope with the feeling of Rails moving too fast. Is it utopia?[00:09:18] Next question: How is YAML pronounced?[00:09:23] Next Tweet: You should talk about Andrew’s awesome buddy, Andrea! [00:11:23] Next question: When is Rails 8 coming out? [00:17:15] Next Tweet: Someone tweeted about Sonic Pi, which is a code-based music creation and performance tool.
2022-02-2542 min
Remote RubyGitHub Codespaces & Docker with Benjamin Wood [00:01:52] Ben introduces himself and tells us about a configuration he did with Docker. [00:09:24] Find out what GitHub Codespaces is all about. [00:18:20] Ben explains the demo he did on how to create a new repository. [00:22:56] Andrew tells Ben he feels like he might know how to set up a home network somehow, and what does Ben have to say about this?[00:26:01] Ben asks the guys if they’re using VSCode.[00:28:06] We learn how Ben and Andre...
2022-02-0443 min
Remote RubyGetting a Junior Developer Job with Jason Meller and Caitlin Cabrera [00:02:40] Jason gives us an explanation of what Kolide is, how they found Caitlin, and why they decided to hire her.[00:06:09] Andrew asks Jason when he was looking for someone for a mid to senior position, and what led him to believe that maybe that’s someone who doesn’t fit into a senior category but can still have the impact of someone with a senior paycheck.[00:08:42] Find out the most impactful thing that Andrew’s company did for him as a Junior Developer, and Caitlin shares her journey to how sh...
2021-12-1759 min
Remote RubyDiscussing Tech Careers with Thiago Araujo and Stefanni Brasil of Hexdevs [00:01:39] Thiago and Stefanni tell us a little bit about themselves, how they started doing the open source livestreams, and what their goals are for them.[00:07:56] We find out how Thiago got interested in doing this stuff, how he got started in Ruby, and what led him to focus on this particular area.[00:11:51] Find out the reason why Jason dropped out of college and what Andrew was angry about in college. Stefanni asks Andrew and Chris if it makes a difference when they do interviews with the degrees they have.
2021-12-101h 00
Remote RubyRubyConf 2021 | Talks We Liked and People We Met [00:00:52] The guys chat about being at RubyConf, how they recorded a live episode with six people, what they talked about, and something about a stellar ending. [00:02:50] Andrew and Jason talk about what happened from the first day of RubyConf and from then on, between meeting up with people, eating with friends, doing a lot of walking, hugging, and talking with so many people. [00:06:39] Jason tells us more about Matz’s talk on the Ruby 3 Nexus.[00:10:49] Jason explains another thing Matz talked about regarding how there...
2021-11-1940 min
Remote RubyAndrew and Jasons Mall Stories and Elixir [00:03:24] Andrew went to a mall and he explains what it was like to shop in a mall in 2021.[00:05:17] Jason and Andrew are headed to RubyConf and they discuss what they are most looking forward to there. [00:07:30] The guys finally chat about Elixir![00:09:12] The topic of Hotwire is discussed, and Chris tells us what fascinates him with the Elixir of the LiveView. [00:16:51] Andrew tells us he was supposed to learn Elixir and why he hasn’t learned it yet.
2021-11-1238 min
Remote RubyRuby on the Apple M1 Max And Things You Expect To Be Fine But Arent [00:00:32] Andrew tells us they shipped a new project at work this week they’ve been working on for a few months, and although it went pretty smoothly, he explains some bumps they had along the way and dealing with crunch time. Chris shares an issue and why he’s been postponing the launch of the new Hatchbox. [00:04:13] We hear more about propagating the DNS and how long it took.[00:08:28] Andrew mentions using the Proxyman app and what it does. [00:09:15] Chris tells us about his new Ma...
2021-11-0543 min
Remote RubyMaking Magic with ImageMagick [00:03:38] Jason tells us about an interesting project he’s been working on this week with a Mockup Generator, and he’s on the Ruby side of it now. He tells us how he’s rendering the images on top of each other with a React component called Design.[00:09:29] Andrew asks Jason what happens if you have a P and G layer on top of a JPEG. Chris wonders if Jason is doing the commands with image processing, MiniMagick, or RMagick, and if he’s doing all of them once or two at a time. Jason me...
2021-10-0142 min
Remote RubyRed Pill-Blue Pill and CSS Bundling [00:03:19] Jason tells us about a side project he’s working on which is mostly JavaScript, but he’s also using ImageMagick.[00:04:46] Andrew gets off topic and asks the guys if they saw the trailer for The Matrix 4 and he reveals a fun fact about the website. Chris asks the guys if they’ve watched any of the CSS bundling stuff that’s going on and he fills us in on what’s going on. [00:11:33] We find out what happened when Jason decides he wants to figure out the config file for esb...
2021-09-2451 min
Remote RubyOnce you get it working, it works! [00:03:52] Jason fills us in on how he’s building a pretty heavy JavaScript tool, using Vite, and a problem he had. [00:11:04] We learn about some PR’s Jason around Webpacker on the GoRails discord that had a solution for Jason’s problem. [00:13:50] Chris talks about “esbuild for Rails” and other approaches that are coming out right now with DHH’s latest stuff is fascinating. He also talks about Babel being a nightmare and being able to do the Importmap Rails for Turbo and Stimulus that have hardly any dependencies is fantastic.
2021-09-1738 min
Remote RubyMoving From Consulting To Products With Andrew Sabetta [00:03:15] Andrew introduces himself, what he does, and more about the businesses that he started.[00:09:48] Chris asks Andrew what took him from PHP to Ruby.[00:12:22] Find out about the project Andrew did with Rails.[00:14:28] The conversation turns to talking about going from consulting, into wanting to build a product, and the transition being a hard decision. [00:16:48] Jason tells us about his issue with being idea driven. He’s excited about building, the marketing stuff he’s not good at, and he’s...
2021-09-101h 13
Remote RubyCode Metrics with Kevin Murphy [00:03:15] We start with Andrew telling us he’s not a fan of code coverage metric and talks about a gem everyone uses called SimpleCov and what it does. Kevin dives into code coverage and why he doesn’t believe it’s a holistic measure and how code coverage can lie to you. [00:05:40] Find out why Kevin love tests, and he explains some other downsides of focusing on code coverage and brings up Coveralls and when is it too much.[00:08:55] Andrew asks Kevin if there are some metrics that are good to track...
2021-08-2743 min
Remote RubyPay V3 & Coding without Resposibilities [00:02:51] Chris tells us about taking on the task of refactoring Pay. [00:03:48] Find out about the first open source project Chris did in programming called “Keryx,” and how this refactoring he’s doing brought him back those days of reminding him how he needs to go make these changes and wondering how he’s going to do them.[00:07:20] Chris takes us through what happened for his first couple of attempts in the refactoring of Pay and the challenges he encountered and announces that Pay 3 is around the corner. ☺[00:14...
2021-08-2047 min
Remote RubyMEGA Crossover Episode (The Bike Shed x Rails with Jason x Remote Ruby x Ruby on Rails Podcast) [00:01:02] Chris, Jason, and Andrew tell us the story behind Remote Ruby and how it started. [00:03:42] Jason Swett tells us the origin of where Rails with Jason came from. [00:04:42] Chris Toomey and Stephanie share the story behind The Bike Shed. [00:07:10] Brittany tells us her story behind The Ruby on Rails podcast. [00:08:07] We find out how Remote Ruby and The Bike Shed are put together and planned out week to week. [00:10:50] Jason Swett and Brittany tell us how th...
2021-08-1134 min
Remote RubyNow We're A Webpacker Podcast [00:01:42] Last week the guys discussed using Inertia, and Jason tell us he’s been doing more Inertia and messing with forms, “axios” is explained, and using validation. [00:10:18] Jason talks about showing some people what he’s been doing with Inertia and someone asked him how he was going to handle flash. Jason tells us what he did, and Andrew shares some thoughts on this.[00:12:27] At Podia, Jason said they have a MutationObserver and what it does. Andrew tells us about the Shop Talk Show Podcast- Episode 471, where Dave Rupert talked about how a...
2021-08-0644 min
Remote RubyLearning in Public | Alpine & Inertia [00:00:42] Andrew gives us an update if he finished his JavaScript framework he was working on, and he tells us why he chooses to use Alpine over Stimulus. [00:03:45] Find out about a method that Bridgetown has called jsonify and what it does. [00:04:55] Jason tells us since he’s been low key back in action this week and he’s been trying out Inertia.js. The creator of Inertia, Jonathan Reinink was on a previous episode that you should listen to. Also, Jason talks about how he likes using Tailwind.
2021-07-3032 min
Remote RubyCollin Jilbert: Bootcamps, Ruby Radar, and finding a job as a Junior Rails Developer [00:01:46] Collin gives us his background and getting into the programming world. [00:03:24] Collin fills us in on why he decided to do a part-time Bootcamp instead of a full-time one, and Chris wonders if the slower pace helped him retain knowledge.[00:06:28] Find out about the kind of projects Collin did at the Bootcamp.[00:08:21] Andrew ask Collin for his opinion on why they hit Sinatra before Rails.[00:11:06] Chris wonders how the support was set up when Collin walked into some problem that he...
2021-07-2342 min
Remote RubyHow Chris and Andrew Became 10X Black Hats [00:00:51] Chris gives a shout-out to Adam McCrea, the Developer behind the RailsAutoscale for Heroku, and how he grew the product over the course of three years andhad $300,000 in annual revenue. He was recently talking about it on an episode of“Startups For the Rest of Us.”[00:02:21] The guys talk about feeling burnt out, Chris going on vacation in two weeks,Andrew needing a massage or float therapy, and good books to read.[00:08:48] Andrew tells us he is slowly working his way through meta programmingRuby and starting to read...
2021-07-1648 min
Remote RubyRead the Logs & Version Your Gems [00:00:15] Since Jason’s been gone a few weeks, the guys have a chat to catch up. Jason tells us how it’s been going at home since the arrival of his baby daughter, Chris gives us an update of what’s going on with his new house, and Andrew tells us he’s been busy with his website and doing upgrades. [00:07:19] Andrew informs us how he regrets making all those GitHub actions a while ago, and he explains why.[00:09:02] Andrew talks about Adam Wathan and what he’s been tweeting about with Gi...
2021-07-0925 min
Remote RubyRails Jobs: How to Win Friends and Influence People [00:02:00] Chris and Andrew reminisce about Wii Fit, Dungeons & Dragons, and card games, which we learn Andrew became a cheater in card games. [00:04:57] Andrew gives two shout-outs, Jason Swett had his hundredth podcast of “Rails with Jason” this week, and Brittany Martin moved her Ruby on Rails podcast. [00:07:50] Andrew shares some interesting information he learned about companies moving away from whiteboard interviews and now doing pairing interviews, and Chris talks about how important it is to make interviewing fair to the Junior Developers.[00:14:32] We find out from An...
2021-07-0253 min
Remote RubyJason Joins Team HAML? [00:00:58] We start off by Andrew telling us he’s working in a weird area of the internet doing stuff with Adobe and the guys catch up on what’s going on in their lives. [00:07:59] It’s not a joke! Jason wants to talk about Haml, and how interested and excited he is to see they’re working on it again (you can certainly hear the cheering from Andrew). ☺ Andrew talks about Haml released their “roadmap” for what they want to do and how they’re trying to get some funds on Google sponsors. [00:09...
2021-06-1841 min
Remote RubyRails' new Request.js library, Ruby Radar, and CSS for Email [00:00:50] Andrew fills us in on the Ruby Radar stuff and if anyone is interested in being a part of it or helping out you can reach out to him! [00:03:25] Andrew tells us about using elink which is like a bookmarking tool.[00:05:03] Chris tells us about doing email work for the job board he wants to set up and we find out what happens since it’s been awhile that he did any CSS work in email.[00:07:32] Andrew explains what Maizzle does and how it works.
2021-06-1157 min
Remote RubyAnnouncing RubyRadar, new Rails 7 features, and Turbo Native Registration [00:00:49] Andrew tells us Brittany Martin released a great podcast episode with Evan Phoenix and Marty Haught, about behind the scenes of Railsconf, and a story about how a man’s submarine was running Ruby. [00:04:56] We hear about Andrew’s move and the crazy things that happened before he moved, which included his house catching on fire and finding a place to live in Arizona during a housing shortage, and his experience shopping for furniture at IKEA for the first time in his life! ☺[00:11:40] Andrew talks about smart home he lives i...
2021-06-0447 min
Remote RubyViewComponents and the Future of Assets with Joel Hawksley After Jason talked about his side project last week, he tells us he had to abandon Stripe checkout and did something else instead, and Chris announced he just did a Stripe Checkout video for GoRails this week. Joining us on today’s episode, we have Joel Hawksley, an Engineer at GitHub and creator of ViewComponent. We learn what ViewComponents are, how Joel came up with the idea, and his latest experiment and vision for it, which is a big one. Joel tells us some ideas he has for Cuprite, and Andrew talks about how Percy is a nice tool to...
2021-04-1656 min
Remote RubyMimeMagic broke EVERYTHING [00:03:19] Andrew starts us off with a funny story starting with having some discrepancies on staging and locally and using redirect back method. [00:06:52] Chris and Andrew dive into discussing Leftpad.[00:12:05] Chris brings up the fiasco that went down on Twitter with mimemagic dependency and Andrew explains it. [00:18:39] We learn about a new version of Rails that was just released, and Chris mentions the mimemagic gem has 110 million downloads! Andrew gives a shout-out to Jon Wood.[00:23:06] Andrew talks about licenses being hard to...
2021-04-0248 min
Remote RubySkypack and Snowpack with Fred Schott [00:01:45] Fred gives us a brief introduction of what he’s working on these days.[00:03:50] Fred did a conference talk about the Third Age of JavaScript and he tells us what it is.[00:07:07] Andrew asks Fred to explain what ESM is and modules. [00:10:53] We learn about using Skypack when Andrew brings up about not having to run NPM install on your local machine. [00:14:30] Chris wonders if there is a use for Babel still in the ESM world or not.
2021-03-2650 min
Remote RubyChain Smoking for Vaccines, Delegated Types, and Creating Courses [00:01:00] The guys chat about what happened this week in their lives, getting COVID vaccines, and Chris trying to get a title transferred on an old car.[00:10:57] Andrew poses a question to Jason and Chris which has to do with Delegated Types. Chris and Jason have a discussion about using it.[00:17:13] Chris mentions pagination being a problem and how querying and then merging could work. After having the discussion, Andrew says it all makes sense to him. [00:22:14] Jason tells us about a pretty gnarly JSONB data mi...
2021-03-1939 min
Remote RubyAdvocating for Junior Devs, Hotwire and HTMX [00:04:17] Chris asks the guys if they submitted a talk to RailsConf 2021. Andrew tells us about a virtual talk at a meetup he’s giving in June.[00:08:53] Chris tells us about something he helped start a long time ago called LaunchCode.[00:11:58] Find out what Chris’s submission to RailConf 2021 is on. [00:16:54] Chris helps Andrew understand Turbo better. [00:25:40] Jason talks about wondering what it would be like to shove turbo into React Native since he’s built stuff in it. Chris shares his ideas.
2021-03-1247 min
Remote RubyLaunching 12in12.io, Dependency Confusion Attack, and Conventional Commits [00:02:42] Andrew does a follow up from last week when he talked about moving and archiving repos and he gives an update. Jason tells us problems they’ve had with Dependabot.[00:05:36] We learn about Andrew perfecting a gem release workflow and using Conventional Commits.[00:09:43] Chris was busy this week and he tells us about a live stream he did with Freek Van der Herten, who created an app called Ray. [00:13:15] Find out about the product streaming Chris did with 12in12.io and how he did a zoo...
2021-02-2648 min
Remote RubyJason's run in with the cops, Andrew deletes his GitHub, and Madmin launches? [00:00:22] The guys share stories of things that happened to them this past week.[00:06:30] Jason announces he got all his testing videos done for his course and it pushed him to do more work on the StimulusReflex testing library. [00:09:25] Chris asks the guys if they knew of a library that has test helpers for both frameworks. [00:12:22] Jason tells us his testimonials are done and he’s hit a weird spot with the app being a little bit incomplete, and he’s thinking about making a video.
2021-02-1942 min
Remote RubyRails for Beginners, Site Editors, and Skypack [00:01:43] The guys chat about callbacks. [00:04:46] Chris tells us about the new course he did, “Ruby on Rails for Beginners.”[00:08:58] Andrew asks Chris if he actually talked to people who are newer in Rails to figure out about the pry or if he had a sense of it because of where he’s at in the community. [00:11:57] Jason hints at wanting to make a course on SQL for Active Record for Rails Developers, which gets Chris and Andrew excited. [00:14:22] Chris mentions how he pu...
2021-02-1238 min
Remote RubyAndrew's HAML Tattoo [00:01:41] Jason dropped his StimulusReflex course in early access and he tells us how the initial reception of it is and how he’s feeling about it.[00:09:21] Andrew explains the differences between Snowpack’s more like Webpacker, and he mentions Skypack and Snowpack pair very nice together. [00:18:07] Andrew tells us that Webpack is just a bunch of Webpack config rolled into a nice easy to use and they took most of the use cases of Webpack and bundled it into a gem. He mentions the web server in Ruby, Falcon, which is HT...
2021-01-0845 min
Remote RubyAndrew's Haml/ERB trailer, TailwindCSS 2.0, and instant Browser Notifcations with CableReady [00:00:39] Jason starts off by talking about a Rails app he went back to that he built and hasn’t touched since March. [00:02:05] Jason upgraded Ruby in Rails and then started the Tailwind 2.0 update and was surprised at how easy it was for “most” things. Chris talked about his moment when he upgraded Jumpstart Pro. [00:04:27] Chris mentions patching Webpacker to fix the Webpack DevServer changes and it was not his favorite upgrade. Andrew shares some info about Webpack and why it may not have been working for Chris. [00:08:4...
2020-12-1850 min
Remote RubyBridgetown, APIStruct, Hashie, and generating PDF forms in Rails [00:05:05] What’s new in Ruby and Rails Land? Andrew announces RubyConf 2020 (virtual) is next week.[00:09:20] Jason spun up a Bridgetown site with Tailwind and said it was fun. Andrew says he’s been playing around with it a lot this week and made a short video on how to add Tailwind, and he went full hog into Snowpack again. [00:10:12] Jason asks Andrew if he ever gut the Webpack setup in Bridgetown and replace it with a Snowpack setup. Andrew talks about the video he made (link below). Jason mentions how he fou...
2020-12-0447 min
Remote RubyModernizing A Community Is Hard [00:00:34] Jason and Chris chat about voting, election, and COVID. Chris mentions a GitHub repository that posts the election votes in real time. [00:9:56] Chris tells us there is good news on the horizon with Ruby 3.0 and Rails 6.1 coming out soon, and the guys chat about the changes. [00:13:10] Jason is curious on Chris and Andrew’s thoughts on how Turbolinks is going to affect the adoption and the use of StimulusReflex. [00:19:37] Andrew talks about how the messaging around Turbolinks has never been as good as it could have been...
2020-11-2759 min
Remote RubyReimagined Rails views using Matestack with Jonas Jabari [00:00:48] The guys catch up on what’s been going on this week. Chris tells us he’s been using Jumpstart in rebuilding Hatchbox this week. Andrew has been on PTO all week, so he’s been chilling, cleaning, and in the middle of refactoring. Jason tells us about a call he got from someone who had signed up for HopeGrid.[00:07:22] Jonas tells us about himself and what Matestack is. [00:10:38] Find out how Matestack is different from View Component or a traditional kind of component type gem. [00:12:34] Jonas exp...
2020-11-2049 min
Remote RubyWebpacker in Engines & Dealing with Burnout [00:01:25] Chris talks about going down the rabbit hole since their discussion last week about Webpacker and Rails Engines which was on his to-do list, and he finds out it is rough.[00:05:31] Andrew asks Chris if there was anything in the Webpack or Docs that made him think that maybe he should add this, or did he already cover it and he explains.[00:07:46] Chris explains a problem he ran into with JavaScript and CSS to display graphs and about using a JavaScript pack tag in the Main Rails App.
2020-11-1356 min
Remote RubyNew Rails API docs, Webpacker "fun", and security.txt [00:03:05] Chris mentions Kasper posted a link to a PR that updates the Rails API guides, which now includes the sidebar with all of the classes and turbo links in there.[00:04:54] Andrew brings up Docs and tells us there’s a ton of Webpacker documentation in a folder in the Webpacker repo called “Docs” and there’s a lot of documentation in there that a lot of people probably don’t know about. [00:09:28] Jason was reading the Docs and just realized you can import Sprockets files into your webpack stuff.
2020-11-0643 min
Remote Ruby🎉 Episode 100!! Upgrading Rails with Ernesto Tagwerker [00:05:18] Ernesto gives us an introduction of who he is and what he does.[00:10:43] Ernesto talks about the last RailsConf in Minneapolis when they were all together. Andrew talks about wanting to upgrade a Rails App and how he came across Ernesto’s FastRuby that had great content, which is why he asked him to be on the show today. [00:12:39] We learn about FastRuby.io from Ernesto. He also talks about the kinds of things you need to think about before you upgrade Rails and what to do if your Tes...
2020-10-3045 min
Remote RubySelf-care as a developer, Ruby 3.0, Sorbet, and more [00:01:38] Andrew tells us about his weekend having to truncate 250 million rows and how he had to take care of a few issues. Jason talks about what he’s been using to search. [00:05:14] Jason talks about using a Laravel package called Scout. [00:06:50] Andrew tells us about having wrist problems and is trying to come up with solutions to help his situation. He asks Jason if he has any suggestions. They both chat about what they do for self-care and how they could manage stress better. [00:18:50] Since...
2020-10-2349 min
Remote RubyGetting started in Ruby & Rails with Will Johnson [00:00:25] What have the guys been up to? Jason tells us he’s been working on his editor project with Reflex and Cable Ready, Chris has been working on Stimulus Reflex, and Andrew’s project is trying to truncate a table that has 225 million records in it! Yikes! Fingers crossed for Andrew! [00:07:20] Will tells us all about himself and how he got into Rails. [00:09:02] Will gives us a synopsis of his E-book, Break Into Tech With Twitter, that was released a few weeks ago. [00:10:21] Andrew asks Wi...
2020-10-1645 min
Remote RubyManaging Technical Debt, Vue 3, and Adding Linters to Legacy Code Bases [00:01:49] Chris tells us he had somebody using Jumpstart that couldn’t get into his app, so he explains how he solved the problem. He also talks about how he used yarn link.[00:10:10] Chris talks about how he was trying to improve administrates navigation, which is actually based off your routes. [00:15:38] The guys chat about how the official version of Vue 3.0.0 was released! [00:18:14] Jason’s been busy writing SQL at work doing campaign emails and what’s been going on with that. Chris asks Jason if he’s...
2020-10-0245 min
Remote RubyTesting performance, Madmin is getting revied, and Railties vs Engines [00:02:34] Andrew tells us what happened when he gave Linter Action another try. He also talks about code scanning alerts and RuboCop.[00:05:14] Andrew tweeted a picture of the UI and it doesn’t look like what you think it would, but he found it to be pretty cool (link below). He also talks about Checks API and Pronto gem.[00:11:33] New this week, Andrew has gotten really big into testing and has seen the bottom of the weeds. He’s been scouring Evil Martians blog and following them on GitHub seeing what...
2020-09-2859 min
Remote RubyRight-ward assignments in Ruby 3? View Components for Primer, and Andrew dabbles with RubyMine [00:07:05] Jason tells us all the cool features Laravel 8 is going to have.[00:14:08] We hear of glimpse of what the new version of Spark will have which sounds pretty cool. [00:17:33] Paddle is talked about and what is does and more people seem to be using it nowadays. [00:19:22] Chris mentions to Jason if he saw that Ruby has an experimental support for Rightward assignments and he explains what it does. Andrew says there’s some computer science mathematical thing that addresses this (link in show notes).
2020-09-1850 min
Remote RubyRuby 3 adds Ractor, Hook Relay, ZSH and more [00:08:26] Chris has been jumping into the Ruby stuff and mentions there was a Ractor announcement and it was accepted, which will be in the next Ruby. Chris asks Andrew if he’s written much multithreaded code before and Chris talks about his experience with it and talks about Ractor. [00:17:47] Chris and Andrew discuss things they learned and didn’t learn in college classes. [00:21:23] Andrew talks about wanting to use the Anyway Config from Palkan which he thinks will solve a lot of his issues. [00:28:08] Andrew t...
2020-09-1157 min
Remote RubyRails Hosting Survey results & Junk Drawers for Code [00:00:55] Jason explains his absence last week because he was trying to trace down a bug with CableReady and morphed them how they worked together.[00:10:05] Chris has been working on a new course which he’ll announce soon. He wants to get into the meta programming, classes and modules, class variables, just more advanced Ruby stuff. He mentions how he did a screencast on “The Gilded Rose Kata.” [00:13:40] Andrew tells us he’s been drowning at work, working on the podcast app for Rebase, and diving into the world of podcast h...
2020-09-0450 min
Remote RubyAndrew's first time working with legacy Rails applications [00:01:55] Chris and Andrew chat about old and new video games and server issues. [00:09:03] Chris asks Andrew what he’s been up to this week and anything exciting like RSpec Tests. Andrew tells us he’s been working on Legacy Rails 4 App which has been an interesting experience and a new challenge for him. Chris brings up his first Rails job out of college. [00:15:28] Andrew tells us what his mentor taught him early in his career about having no idea about the circumstances or requirements surrounding the way certain things are done. He shares some great advi...
2020-08-2855 min
Remote RubyRefactoring view components, notifications, and how you translate your JavaScript [00:03:37] The guys catch up on what’s been going on in their lives. [00:10:58] Jason tells us he’s been refactoring and cranking out view components. Chris talks about the transition that he went from building the notifications things and refactoring it. [00:14:04] Chris asks the guys if they’ve done any other stimulus reflex features that they’re going to try and build or if they’re mostly focused on the site preview thing. Jason’s main focus is the editor. Chris tell us what he does for notifications. He mentions Baseca...
2020-08-2156 min
Remote RubyFollowing up with Steve Polito On today’s episode, Chris and Andrew have brought back their good friend, Steve Polito, to give us an update on his new job! Yes, he got a job after being a guest on our podcast! 😄 He will fill us in on what the interviewing process was like, what he does at his new job, how GitHub has helped him, and helpful advice on things he’s learned in the process of finding of job that he will share with you. Chris and Andrew share some stories and advice as well. Do you have “imposter syndrome?” Find out how you...
2020-08-1453 min
Remote RubyNoticed (Notifications in Rails), Real-time Previews with Stimulus Reflex, and Podia is Hiring [00:00:25] Chris has been tweeting about doing notifications in Rails and trying to build and he asks the guys if they’ve used any notifications gems in Rails or have they built it from scratch or what have they done in the past. Chris mentions about something Palkan wrote about Active Delivery. [00:06:34] Chris talks about getting a Tweet from Steve Polito about writing Gems is a good way of pushing your learning. [00:10:35] Jason tells us what notifications are to him, which is always a thing he wants to add but then he pushes it o...
2020-08-0744 min
Remote RubyBuilding Homes & Software, Translations, and Bridgetown [00:03:02] Jason and Chris chat about moving, selling, and designing their new homes. Chris has gone down a rabbit hole lately and tells us to check out a Matt Risinger, a builder in Texas, on YouTube. [00:11:20] Jason talks about using Stripe's hosted billing stuff and it was a dream come true. Chris brings up Paddle and wanting to try it.[00:21:19] Chris has been spending the past few days extracting every string out of Jumpstart Pro into Locales and he finds there some cool stuff and some annoying stuff.
2020-07-3154 min
Remote RubyAndrew needs a job and TailwindCSS ViewComponents [00:01:03] Andrew fills us in on being laid off from his job and he talks about how his job search is going. [00:09:32] Jason asks Andrew how the interviewing process has been going and if he’s had to do any whiteboarding. Andrew tells us what he’s had to do for some interviews. [00:14:32] Andrew tells us he’s been redoing his website with BridgetownRB, Tailwind, and little bit of Stimulus. He also mentions Tailwind Builder and what it does. He gives a s/o to Jared White from BridgetownRB who was rece...
2020-07-0346 min
Remote RubyAdvanced StimulusReflex & CableReady in real-world apps [00:06:10] Jason starts out by talking about working on action cable this past weekend since he uses stimulus reflex for everything in life and he couldn’t control the logging. Chris mentions he had a similar issue happen to him. [00:10:00] Andrew chimes in to say he thinks this is a place where components can really shine with cable ready. Jason talks about using components at work. [00:13:19] Chris wonders if Jason has dropped down into Cable Ready since he’s been using Stimulus Reflex a lot. Chris finds it far more effecti...
2020-06-1951 min
Remote RubyPast Rubies and Rails history with Nick Schwaderer [00:03:20] Jason talks about the form stuff he’s been working on in Reflex.[00:08:02] Nick tells us about the background of “Past Rubies,” which has been on hiatus since Christmas, but will be reappearing in the next month. [00:15:12] The merge of Rails and Merb is brought up by Chris and he mentions a fascinating blog post by Yehuda Katz. [00:21:30] Nick talks about Brighton Ruby’s alternative conference which is a remote conference this year and they are giving a hard copy of “Why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby...
2020-06-1257 min
Remote RubyRailsBytes.com, AppLocale and more with Andrea Fomera [00:02:25] Chris starts off and gives a s/o to Andrea Fomera for being one of the first GoRails subscribers and the longest subscriber. Then they explain what RailsBytes is and how they got into building it. [00:08:37] Chris talks about something they discovered working on this project and Andrea Fomera gives an example about installing things that depend on Webpacker. [00:11:45] Andrew mentions if you look at templates that exist today, people are employing different methods for adding a gem to the gem file, so he wants to know if Chris and...
2020-06-0544 min
Remote RubyRailsconf Couch Edition & May of WTFs with Matt Swanson [00:04:25] Matt gives us an introduction of who he is and what he does at SEP. He also mentions his blog called, “Boring Rails.” (don’t be fooled by the name)☺ [00:05:55] Besides doing Rails at work, Matt fills us in on other things he works in. [00:08:08] Jason asks the guys if any of them have watched the “RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition” talks and what are some of their favorites. Andrew starts off talking about a Webpacker one called, “Webpacker, It-just-works, But How?’ by Justin Gordon. Also, “Tidy First?” by Kent Beck. Matt mentions that DHH h...
2020-05-2954 min
Remote RubyJoined by Josh Wood from HoneyBadger.io and Heya.email [00:01:54] Chris asks Josh if there is a viewing party going on for RailsConf online stuff since RailsConf was canceled. Josh explains what is going on and talks about a RailsConf Virtual Hallway that is planned. [00:09:05] Josh talks about what’s new at Honeybadger and how the transition’s been like for them. [00:11:49] There was something that caught the attention of the guys on Reddit recently that Josh released called “Heya.” It’s been a side project of his at Honeybadger and he talks about it here. [00:20:37...
2020-05-1552 min
Remote RubyStimulus Reflex BlackJack, Leaving ActionText, and Calendar Gems [00:01:13] Jason talks about how he needs to start doing some upgrades on HopeGrid. And because the guys do like to have fun, they talk about gaming devices and fun video games they’ve been playing. [00:07:45] Andrew and Chris talk about playing the video games “Red Dead Redemption” and “Grand Theft Auto.” [00:10:50] So, what’s new in Ruby World? Chris did a major update to GoRails.[00:13:41] Chris asks the guys if they’ve seen the Sizzy browser.[00:17:28] Chris mentions using Alpine.js for dr...
2020-05-0859 min
Remote Ruby$1k/mo GitHub Sponsorship, Advanced Stimulus Reflex, and more [00:03:35] Chris talks about “Active Admin,” which is the most popular Rails Admin Gem and how useful it is to use. [00:07:25] Andrew brings up “Lucky,” a Crystal database wrapper, and Chris gives his opinion about it. [00:11:47] Chris and Andrew mention using GitLab, but both prefer GitHub until things get fixed. And with teams going free mostly, it will be nice for discussions and paid projects like Jumpstart or Tailwind UI. [00:14:28] Chris shares some exciting news about getting a new GitHub sponsor! Cha-Ching! Let’s just say it was th...
2020-04-251h 10
Remote RubyViewComponent, Alpine.js, and embedding videos in ActionText [00:04:43] Jason talks about “filtering” and how it relates to model scopes. [00:08:30] Speaking of fun side projects, Andrew asks the guys if they heard that Twilio and DEV are doing a Hackathon? There are lots of prizes and they are pretty good, but you need to do something to participate so find out here ☺ [00:12:46] Andrew brings up how View Component from GitHub went through changing their Gem name and doing upgrades and how they have collection support now. Also, Andrew got Storybook running with the latest changes. Jason is curious how Andr...
2020-04-101h 09
Remote RubyJavascript woes, Stimulus to the rescue, and online Railsconf talks [00:04:37] There is a discussion about using escape JavaScript in apps as well using jQuery.[00:08:24] Jason talks about learning Backbone and then learning JavaScript outside of jQuery. Andrew says he’s always heard good things about Backbone. [00:10:14] Nate asks Andrew about his Gatsby experiment and how much of it is Java XML configurations and how much of his time is spent doing that stuff as opposed to actually programming. Andrew also explains how he was, “Nerd Sniped!” Storybook is also brought up as well. [00:16:05] The guys all...
2020-03-2743 min
Remote RubyRailsconf 2020 Cancelled, Linters, Layered Caching, & GlobalID [00:03:41] Andrew talks about his “experiment” which is a remote-like meetup he is putting together.[00:10:31] There is talk about Standard RB on twitter and Jumpstart Pro being a good place to begin because it’s a template. [00:16:30] Chris brings up ERB Lint wondering if it’s been handy for the guys. Andrew mentions an HTML Beautifier that works with ERB that runs on that code which is nice. [00:22:49] Andrew’s FAVORITE question is asked about whether it’s a good idea to run a fixed version of a co...
2020-03-201h 06
Remote RubyMultitenancy, AWS Lambda, and a new online Ruby meetup? In this episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew “jump” right in to talking about Jumpstart Pro and what he is working on. Other discussions include Attributes API, AWS Lambda, Heavens Door, removing Spring from Gemfile, using Gatsby, Jekyll, Tailwind UI, starting a Ruby Meetup with Andrew, and many more interesting things. [00:00:55] Chris talks about some Jumpstart Pro stuff he’s working on.[00:04:30] Andrew discusses what he’s had to deal on having issues with multitenancy.[00:08:18] Andrew talks about how he built a stimulus reflex form to invite...
2020-03-1358 min
Remote RubyTailwind UI, Hanami::API, Puma security fixes, and more [00:02:13] The guys talk about how Ruby is 27 years old and Rails is 16 years old and how Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto is still involved with Ruby since the beginning. [00:03:28] Chris mentions using Python, but Ruby being more flexible and the philosophy of Matz making Ruby so special. [00:06:45] Jason asks the guys if anything cool is going on. Tailwinds UI is mentioned which leads into Adam Wathan’s tweet about it. [00:12:04] Listen here to see if Jason likes working on Front End code. Also, the guys discuss how they had A...
2020-03-0656 min
Remote RubyIntroducing Andrew Mason, CI Tooling, Ruby 2.7 Features, Rails 6.1 on the Radar Rubocop Linter GitHub ActionWhat's New in Ruby 2.7Pattern Matching - New Feature in Ruby 2.7 by Kazuki TsujimotoModel Error as Object (Rails PR #32313)Introduce Support for ActionView::Component (Rails PR #36388)ActionView::Component Previews (ActionView::Component PR #96) Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter
2019-12-0653 min
Remote RubyJoined by Andrew Mason Andrew on TwitterAndrew on GitHub Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter
2019-09-2052 min