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Remote RubySin City Ruby & Testing with Jason SwettIn this episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew catch up with each other before diving into a conversation with Jason Swett. Jason, an author, speaker, and creator, discusses his monthly snail mail newsletter "Nonsense Monthly" and the upcoming Sin City Ruby conference scheduled for April 2025 in Vegas, Baby! The discussion then shifts to various topics surrounding software testing, including the challenges of test setup, duplication in tests, and the philosophical aspects of tests as specifications. Jason also talks about his latest book, "Professional Rails Testing" and his experiences and insights on consulting and improving technical leaders. Hit download now to...
2025-01-2453 minRemote RubyJason Meller on 1Password joining the Rails FoundationIn this episode, Chris catches up with guest Jason Meller, CEO and founder of Kolide. Today, Jason shares exciting news about Kolide, a startup focused on device security, which was recently acquired by 1Password. He delves into the history of Kolide, its growth, and its acquisition by 1Password. Jason also talks about the technical aspects of Kolide’s product, the importance of behavioral science in security, and the transition to working with 1Password. The conversation touches on scaling challenges, the hiring process, and Rails' influence on their development practices. Chris talks about his contribution by discussing improvements in the Ge...
2024-12-061h 16
Remote RubyRails 7.1 Is Gonna Be HUGE In today’s episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew embark on some lively and humorous discussions about Bitcoin-inspired trucks, to practical insights on Rails 7.1 features, they explore security concepts, gas fees, Amsterdam travel plans, and much more. They dive into interesting developments like common table expressions, token generation in Rails 7.1, and the intriguing Bun package manager’s potential impact on Node. Chris also shares valuable insights into Stripe’s address element, Paddle as a Stripe alternative, and the complexities of handling taxes and chargebacks. Hit download now for more “Bun” stuff![00:00:12] Our conversation starts with Chris seein...
2023-09-2347 min
Remote RubySorry For Slandering Yet Another Gem In this episode of Remote Ruby, Jason and Andrew cover a wide range of topics that start out with nothing to do with tech. First, they discuss energy drink flavors and then transition into a humorous exploration of disagreements with Chris, who happens to not be here today. They cover various topics including CMS options, front-end development, and Tailwind CSS customization. They also introduce a gem called “Counter” created by their colleague Jamie, aka “Dad” at Podia, which efficiently handles attribute tracking. Jason and Andrew discuss the gem’s features and flexibility, highlighting its value in addressing complex counting challenges...
2023-09-0829 min
Remote RubyAin't Your Callback Girl In this episode, Chris, Jason, and Andrew engage in a discussion revolving around the functionality and nuances of generated columns, callbacks, and coding practices in database and Rails applications. They explore the benefits and challenges of these features, and they dive into the complexities of coding tests. They also discuss the HTML Pipeline library, GitHub’s markdown processing, and the Rails function for rendering rich text associations. Jason, Chris, and Andrew share their personal experiences, they explore the deeper layers of the Rails ecosystem, and they touch on Rails upgrades and the importance of maintaining minimal dependencies. Join us for...
2023-08-2535 min
Remote RubyThe One Where We Talk About Our STIs Welcome to another interesting and lively episode of Remote Ruby, where Jason, Chris, and Andrew dive deep into their personal adventures and tech talks, including a detailed discussion on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Ruby on Rails, sharing different perspectives, use-cases, and alternatives. Andrew teases about a big project reveal coming up next week, and Jason, now Podia’s ‘Emotional Support Developer’, shares his expertise in managing projects. The conversation takes humorous turns as the group jokes about Andrew’s propensity to speak before thinking, Jason’s new job title, and their collective appreciation of internet memes. In the mix, we also...
2023-07-2837 min
Remote RubyWe're A JavaScript Podcast Now Even though we’re missing Andrew today, Chris and Jason keep things lively, kicking off with a fun chat about candies, and unusual dislikes. Then, they dive into the professional world where Jason shares insights from his Job Boardly project and talks about the challenges and tools he found useful, such as Imperavi’s, Article. Chris and Jason have a discussion on various text editors, focusing on Basecamp’s Trix, we hear the difference between Redactor X and Article, and the Revolvapp, which is Imperavi’s email templates editor. Chris and Jason go deeper into the world of JavaScript developme...
2023-07-1450 min
Remote RubyThe Case For NOT Taking A Management Path In today’s episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew kick it off with a discussion about their work environments, seating options, and Andrew’s hilarious story about going to IKEA, pencil behind his ear, tape measure, and his Mustang, to buy a new couch. We shift gears (see what we just did there) to the recent buzz surrounding the Rails World event and some speculations about Rails 7.1 features, and Chris tells us about Rails Hackathon that’s coming up in July. From there, we move into a more personal space as Jason shares his experience of shifting from coding to manager...
2023-06-3037 min
Remote RubyJason Goes to Infinity (and Beyond) On this episode of Remote Ruby, Jason, Chris, and Andrew reunite after a hiatus, starting their conversation with a playful idea of starting a band and Andrew possibly recording a new podcast intro. A trip down memory lane brings forth their childhood musical preferences before they shift to an in-depth conversation about programming. Andrew and Chris talk about their recent experiences refactoring code and the complexities they encountered, highlighting how such processes can improve performance and efficiency. The discussion touches on topics ranging from Rails features and documentation, the usefulness of Ruby Infinity, the elegance of removing co...
2023-06-2345 min
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
Iowa Hype PodcastEpisode 30 | Mason RichmanEpisode 30: Mason Richman. Mason is an offensive Lineman for our Hawkeyes and is coming into the Spring practices with some serious optimism and excitement about a new QB, and getting back to the Big Ten Championship. Mason is a great guest and Matthew and I REALLY enjoyed chatting with him!
Welcome to the Iowa Hype Podcast. My son and I are avid Hawkeye fans and enjoy spending time together talking about the team, and life in general. My goal with this podcast is to spend some time with my son and be able to...
2023-03-3051 min
Remote RubyRuby Language Server with Vinicius Stock On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris came down with what he thinks was food poisoning this week, Jason brings up Ghost Kitchens which seem to be a thing these days, and Chris applied to be a Guide at RailsConf 2023. Also, Jason and Chris are excited to have a guest joining them because they’ve always talked about how they wished for better tooling for day-to-day Ruby development, so they brought on Vini Stock, who’s a Senior Developer at Shopify. Shopify has created the Ruby Language Server (LSP) to make it easier to implement features such as code defi...
2023-03-1051 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 RubyHow Derek Sivers Uses Ruby And His Programming Philosophy [00:00:10] Jason tells the story of getting Derek on to be on this podcast, that started with Chris telling Jason about a book that he thought he should read. [00:03:32] Derek shares his story of how he got into programming. [00:06:56] Derek explains when he learned Ruby and his Rails history, which he used to rewrite CD Baby. [00:13:24] Derek gives the best analogy for what it’s like to do two years of work and then decide this isn’t working and push the work aside....
2023-02-031h 00
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 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 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 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 RubyAndy Croll on First Ruby Friend, RubyConfMini and more [00:03:02] Andy tells us some details about RubyConf Mini coming up in November, as well as RubyConf in Houston, TX.[00:08:10] Jason wonders if RubyConf Mini is unique to this year or if it’s something that Andy could see happening in the future.[00:12:35] We hear more about the Ruby Friends program that Andy started and he explains how it was born out of frustration.[00:18:29] Find out how many people are currently in the Ruby Friends program and benefit of being a mentor....
2022-10-0744 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 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 RubyBenedikt Deicke on Ember.js, Database Optimizations, and more [00:01:51] Jason and Chris discuss the launching of Hatchbox v2. [00:05:54] Benedikt tells us about himself and what he does.[00:06:55] We learn when Benedikt started using Ember, how long he’s been building Userlist, and if he had experience working in Rails API mode with Ember.[00:09:54] Benedikt explains what the process of scaffolding looks like and if ever has to manage and make things happen in sync when he makes a change that affects both sides.[00:11:18] Jason explains what Ember does and...
2022-09-0236 min
Remote RubyCaleb Porzio on Alpine.js, Laravel Livewire & more [00:03:41] Caleb gives us an introduction about himself, how long he’s been doing programming, and what he’s doing now.[00:06:29] Jason brings up a popular blog post Caleb wrote a few years ago and he tells us a little bit about it.[00:10:48] We hear an overview of what Alpine is and when it started. [00:16:42] Caleb explains things Alpine does directly correlated to Stimulus.[00:19:56] We find out what Caleb does if gets into a situation with listening for events from third...
2022-08-261h 14
Remote RubyHanami Mastery with Sebastian Wilgosz [00:05:52] Sebastian tells us about himself, how long he’s been doing Ruby, where HanamiMastery came from, and his journey in working in Rails.[00:11:57] We learn about some problems Sebastian was solving with dry-rb and what specific dry-rb libraries he was using. [00:13:58] Jason explains what dry-rb is.[00:16:54] We hear how Sebastian’s experience has been with Hanami so far and if it was a shift in thinking coming from a Rails background.[00:18:16] If your unfamiliar with Hanami, Jason explains some thing...
2022-08-1937 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 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 RubyAaron & Colleen from Hammerstone [00:01:36] Colleen and Aaron introduce themselves and tell us what they do. [00:03:04] There was a workshop at RailsConf that Colleen and Aaron had around Advanced Active Record and we learn about the purpose of the workshop. [00:04:42] We find out what Arel is and what it gives us, and how Laravel handles everything you need but in a different way. [00:09:07] We find out where the query builders are in the process of launching for each side. [00:10:57] Andrew wonders if Aaron used CSS variables to make it cu...
2022-06-2453 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 RubyHow Thoughtbot Works with Steve “Four-peat” Polito [00:09:02] We find out what Steve is doing now and what he did before thoughtbot.[00:13:30] Steve explains how the team works at thoughtbot.[00:17:00] Since people roll in and out of the team, how does Steve manage to bring someone up to speed quickly?[00:20:02] We learn what the onboarding process is when they get new clients so the team can easily jump in.[00:23:46] Jason brings up a thoughtbot gem called Suspenders and Steve tells us more about it.
2022-06-1040 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 RubyHeroku Incident, SIM Swapping, and security tools [00:00:41] The guys banter about Suns vs Grizzlies, some Tweets between Jason and Andrew, and the Footprint Center. [00:06:00] Jason and Andrew were brainstorming topics for this podcast and there was talk about minting the first episode of Remote Ruby and sell it as an NFT.[00:07:19] Andrew explains the little oopsie that happened with Heroku and GitHub over the weekend.[00:13:19] Andrew tells us about SIM swapping and what’s been happening at T-Mobile stores.[00:23:57] We hear about Podia using Brakeman, the sta...
2022-04-2249 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 RubyRuby & Rails Tips with Sebastien Auriault [00:02:03] The guys catch up and talk about some really good shows they are watching and a great book that’s worth a read. [00:05:21] Sebastien tells us about himself and how he got into doing the Ruby on Rails tips on Twitter.[00:07:30] Find out where Sebastien started in his journey. [00:11:42] Since Sebastien didn’t have Rails experience, he tells us what he put on his resume and ideas of what should be put on a resume.[00:14:42] Should you be working on side...
2022-04-0153 min
Remote RubyLoad Testing Rails Applications & Rails Conferences [00:02:15] Jason shares some interesting news that happened at Podia that involves Harry Connick Jr. and load testing. [00:05:54] Chris tells us a story about his first Rails job which was building a website for Justin Timberlake’s 901Tequila.[00:07:08] Jason tells us about a tool they used called k6. [00:18:11] Chris and Jason chat about query times with Heroku Postgres and Heroku Dashboard.[00:20:13] There’s a great talk by Gary Bernhardt about Text Editor that Chris explains.[00:24:18] We fin...
2022-03-2543 min
Remote RubyTaylor Otwell, creator of the Laravel Framework [00:01:12] We start with Taylor explaining where Laravel came from. [00:03:32] Taylor tells us what Laravel 1.0 looks like and more about validations happening at the controller layer.[00:07:18] After version 1 comes out, Jason asks Taylor if he’s still at the trucking company and what the reception was like in the community.[00:11:16] We learn how the transition went for Taylor from working at UserScape and making Laravel his full-time job. [00:13:44] Taylor explains how he split his time between working on Forge and work...
2022-03-1154 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 RubyElixir & GenServers with Andreas Eriksson [00:03:47] Andreas gives us a brief introduction of who he is, what he does, and how long he’s been writing Ruby code and Elixir code.[00:05:59] Find out what Phoenix LiveView is, and Jason wonders if it’s something that multiple processes could come in and reference or if it’s tied to one kind of connection.[00:08:55] Jason asks Andreas if he’s building a web app and someone tells him to use LiveView, what type of problems is he solving by using LiveView?[00:10:17] Since there’s...
2022-01-2827 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 RubyLive from RubyConf 2021! [00:00:28] The panelists introduce themselves.[00:01:37] We hear what everyone is most excited about being at RubyConf and the talks they are most excited about going to.[00:04:11] Jason Swett shares how he prepped for the workshops, and Nick and Emily tell us about their talks. [00:08:13] Jemma asks the panelists why they come to conferences and what brings them here.[00:11:12] Everyone here is a podcaster, so we find out why they do these podcasts.[00:15:11] The panelists share w...
2021-11-2450 min
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 RubyDestroy Async, Miss Hannigan, Wisper, and Parcel [00:10:32] Jason tells us what he’s been working on this week and a problem with quickly deleting a record that has associations and callbacks.[00:13:53] We learn more about the gem Miss Hannigan.[00:16:15] Chris talks about whether or not to include soft deletes in the default scope, because you end up with gotchas, and Andrew tells us the importance of putting more work and thought into your data architecture, the easier it be to modify and do things later. [00:19:47] Andrew asks the guys if it’s oka...
2021-10-2949 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 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 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 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 RubyJoined by Jason Swett [00:05:33] Jason introduces himself and tells us what he does. [00:06:48] Jason defines what a service object is and how he views them, and then asks the guys if they use service objects and what comes to mind when they hear the term service objects. [00:11:45] We find out about a blog post that Jason wrote recently that he tells us about. [00:13:49] Chris talks about good complicated examples are the hardest to come up with, and Jason tells us about a challenge he had with cases in his...
2021-05-2141 min
Remote RubyJoined by Andrea Fomera, Tony Hawk, and starting a Rails Hackathon! [00:00:49] What an interesting week for Andrew! Find out exactly what happened to him and all about his “concerns” he had at work. [00:07:41] Chris was on Twitter this week talking about maybe bringing back “Rails Rumble” and he would love to make it happen but would need help. [00:12:20] We find out if anyone has participated in a Hackathon before. Chris and Jason talk about one time they tried to have their own Hackathon and what happened.[00:18:27] Andrea, the “Caddy Expert,” tells us all about Caddy and how Caddy...
2021-05-1442 min
Remote RubyRailsconf Talk Success, Request Variants, Deploying to Render, and Caddy Server [00:02:05] We learn how RailsConf 2021 was from Chris, and Andrew makes an announcement that he’s moving out of state and something about always wanting to be a trucker. ☺ [00:07:45] Chris fills us in on what he talked about at RailsConf 2021, which was on Action Text, Turbo, and ActionMailbox.[00:10:51] Jason tells us about using Action Text and what happened. Chris and Andrew chat more about Action Text, Trix, and Markdown Editor.[00:14:34] Turbo Native is brought up and Chris talks about working on the iOS wrapper for Jumpst...
2021-04-2350 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 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 RubyBuilding a Business on Rails with Mike Perham [00:01:40] Mike tells us about himself, what he was doing before he started Sidekiq, and what led in the idea of him starting it.[00:03:46] Jason asks Mike if he thinks a lot of thread safe code in our ecosystem came from just people adopting Sidekiq, and when he started Sidekiq did he have plans of it becoming paid tiers or was it purely an open source project at the time.[00:06:07] When he moved to the open core model, Mike tells us if he had both the pro and enterprise license...
2021-03-0541 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 RubyHotwire, Rails NEXT, and the DHH Stack™ with David Heinemeier Hansson [00:00:34] DHH jumps right into telling us what the response has been to Hotwire and how Basecamp has felt about the response.[00:04:02] DHH talks about a book they published in 2013 and mentions to “wait for the pendulum to come your way,” and how this relates to Hotwire. He also talks about Turbo.[00:08:06] Since Hotwire, the whole package, is a separate gem you bring in, Jason asks DHH if long term, that will continue to be the case or if that will ship with Rails. [00:15:39] Rails 7 is broug...
2021-01-1953 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 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 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 RubyJoined by Adam Wathan: TailwindCSS, Tailwind UI, and ActionView Components In this episode we welcome back a special guest, Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS. We find out some cool things that have happened in Tailwind, new things that have launched in Tailwind UI, and issues he ran into when building it. Adam tells us about a work system they use called the six-week cycle with a two-week cool down, which really helps with prioritizing things. We also talk with Adam about how he approaches building components in JavaScript libraries like Vue in an effort to apply some of that wisdom to ViewComponent.[00:04:26] Adam tells us all...
2020-10-091h 01
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 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 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 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 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 RubyExploring HEY's Gemfile Welcome to Remote Ruby! The guys are all back together this week! In the last episode, COVID-19 was talked about, so the guys want to shift the focus to new and better things happening in the Gem world, like DHH’s Hey’s Gemfile and Basecamps Gemfile. Jason made an Avatar Component and how he uses formBuilder. They guys also talk about WebAuthn Gem, Two-factor Authentication, and Turbolinks. There are some newer Gems out there they discuss as well and some of their favorites. Jason brings back another question of the week to see if it will get answered. Will Ja...
2020-07-1052 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 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 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 RubyFrom Agency Life to Software Development: Q&A with Steve Polito [00:02:43] Steve gives his background, jobs he’s had, and what he’s currently doing now. He also talks about how he stumbled upon Rails and how it was exactly what he was looking for because it allowed him so many resources. He did snag his own domain which is nice. [00:08:25] Chris chimes because he can relate to everything Steve has been talking about with agency work. He also talks about something that taught him the most which was spending time cloning stuff that already existed. [00:12:04] Steve asks the guys questio...
2020-04-161h 08
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 RubySheltering in Place, Building Products, and trying out StimulusReflex [00:01:47] Chris talks about how with gas prices being so low and no one being on the road, the Cannonball Run (NY-LA car race) people are talking about how now would be a good time to run the race. [00:03:41] With RailsConf 2020 getting cancelled. Chris was asked to record what was going to be his presentation for RailsConf…for what is now being dubbed as RailsConf 2020.2 “Couch Edition,” which brings some of RailsConf 2020 right to the comfort of your couch. Online viewing starts on May 5th. [00:04:23] Jason launched the HopeGrid App for chur...
2020-04-0546 min
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 RubyMental Health, Rails Upgrades, Jason's New Project, Bootstrap Shift, and More ChurchChatBootstrap ShiftMonolithsAttractor Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter
2020-02-031h 02
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