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Remote Ruby

Remote Ruby

Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 312

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Two Rubyists having conversations and interviewing others about Ruby and web development.

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Mike Dalessio on HTML parsing & sanitization and SQLite

Episode 275

vendredi 30 août 2024Duration 55:14

In this episode, hosts Chris and Andrew sit down with Mike Dalessio, a seasoned Ruby developer and contributor to numerous open-source projects. Mike shares his journey from his early days with Ruby, including his contributions to Shopify and pivotal projects like Nokogiri and Mechanize. The conversation also delves into the challenges and innovations in HTML sanitization in Rails, the evolution of SQLite gems, and the significance of managerial experience in enhancing software development skills. The episode wraps up with insights into the continuous improvements and collaborative efforts in the Ruby community. Hit download to hear more!


Rails 7.2 – First Impressions

vendredi 23 août 2024Duration 43:24

In this episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew dive deep into Ruby on Rails 7.2 discussions
and share their experiences with the new RC1 rate limited feature. The conversation
also covers the challenges of upgrading dependencies, the shift from asdf to mise for
faster language management and explores ways to simplify development workflows
with dev containers. There’s also a big debate on various testing methodologies,
comparing RSpec and minitest, and deliberate the merits and pitfalls of fixtures versus
factory libraries in maintaining robust codebases. Also, find out about Oaken, a hybrid
tool blending features of Fixtures, FactoryBot, and Fabricator. Hit download now!

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Continuous Delivery and Continuous Self-Improvement

Episode 265

vendredi 10 mai 2024Duration 49:27

In this episode, Jason, Chris, and Andrew reflect of their experiences of developing software, focusing on aspects such as the Fast and Furious franchise, writing in Ruby, React development, and grappling with OAuth 2.0 issues.

They dive into testing, specifically the challenges of maintaining a meaningful test suite and the revelations from addressing test suite problems.

A discussion on containerization touches on Docker and CI setup frustrations, while also exploring web accessibility standards and the potential of Web Components, specifically through the new Web Awesome project.

The conversation takes us through various technical and personal insights, highlighting the continual learning and adaptation inherent in software development. Press download to hear much more!

Panelists:
Jason Charnes
Chris Oliver
Andrew Mason

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Its Always Sinny In Las Vegas aka Sin City Ruby

Episode 174

vendredi 8 avril 2022Duration 44:02

[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 an engaging talk on incident response.


[00:10:21] In case you’re wondering what happened at lunchtime, Andrew went swimming, Jason had a frozen strawberry margarita, and Andrea Fomera had a fantastic talk on the upgrading process for Rails.


[00:13:58] Is it Day 2 or Day 9? The guys chat about Brittany Martin’s talk on, “What it’s like to the be the technical person on the call,” which had some really interesting ideas.


[00:16:58] If you need a break from the Vegas strip, the guys tell us about The Neon Museum, the light show they saw there, and going to downtown Vegas which was a ton of fun. We hear a story of Andrew getting carded at the Roulette table.


[00:19:46] We hear about the Evil Knievel themed pizza place the guys went to called Evil Pie. The first talk of Day 2 was with Ivy Evans and her talk on security, and Andrew tells us about an interesting podcast called, Darknet Diaries.


[00:22:45] The next talk is Nikita Vasilevsky, where he talked about “Do you test your tests,” and then the talk with Andrew Culver, creator of Bullet Train.

 

[00:25:53] Jason posterized Andrew, and we learn more about Colleen Schnettler’s talk on Arel, Nick Schwaderer’s talk on the gem Hobix, and Jason’s amazing talk which Andrew raves about!


[00:36:27] Find out about the guys racing experience, and what their favorite part of the conference was and their favorite meal. ☺



Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Andrew Mason



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Jason Charnes Twitter

Andrew Mason Twitter

Sin City Ruby

The Neon Museum-Las Vegas

Evil Pie

Darknet Diaries Podcast

RailsConf 2022

Ruby Conferences 2022

Bullet Train

Drew Bragg Twitter

Chris Seaton Twitter

Kelly Sutton Twitter

Thai Wood Twitter

Andrea Fomera Twitter

Brittany Martin Twitter


Ruby & Rails Tips with Sebastien Auriault

Episode 173

vendredi 1 avril 2022Duration 53:17

[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 projects as a developer? 


[00:15:42] Sebastien tells us why he found a mentor more helpful than a tutor. 


[00:17:12] We learn how to find the companies that you should apply for jobs, and Sebastien tells us how many job applications he submitted.


[00:20:07] We learn how many places Sebastien heard back from out of all the resumes he sent, Jason talks about not getting discouraged in this process, and find out how Sebastien’s experience was.


[00:23:01] We hear about Sebastien’s first job and how long he was there. 

 

[00:25:30] Find out some ways Sebastien’s second job set him up to succeed and give him the great junior experience. 


[00:28:51] What was Sebastien’s path to Podia?


[00:31:56] Andrew asks if Sebastien if he would suggest someone pursue a bootcamp right now if they want to be a developer like him.

[00:34:19] If you want to get the most out of a bootcamp Sebastien explains.


[00:37:46] Find out about Sebastien’s side project he’s working on called, RubyCompanion, which is for Ruby and Rails developers.


[00:41:04] One last thing Sebastien talks about is the importance of networking, and some advice on who should go to a bootcamp.


[00:52:00] Where can you find Sebastien online?



Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason



Guest:

Sebastien Auriault



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Jason Charnes Twitter

Andrew Mason Twitter

Chris Oliver Twitter

Sebastien Auriault Website

Sebastien Auriault Twitter

Sebastien Auriault LinkedIn

RubyCompanion

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Load Testing Rails Applications & Rails Conferences

Episode 172

vendredi 25 mars 2022Duration 43:59

[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 find out about Jason’s Sin City Ruby talk which was supposed to be on Simplicity but it now on SQL and Active Record.  He also tells us about the talk Colleen Schnettler is doing on arel.


[00:26:32] Jason had to do some SQL at Podia and talks about how there was no good way to make it anything but SQL.


[00:30:56] The guys chat about submitting talks for RailsConf 2022.


[00:34:32] Jason shares a funny story about the last time he did a talk at RubyConf 2017 and what happened when the fire alarm went off.

 

[00:37:20] Find out what the guys are doing when they’re in Vegas.


[00:38:34] Earlier the guys were talking about missing indexes or things that could be indexed and Andrew tells us about a gem called lol_dba and Derailed Benchmarks.


[00:41:48] The guys share much needed thank-you’s to some important people for their contributions, inspiration, and all the work they’ve done for Rails.


Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

k6

Text Editor From Scratch

Colleen Schnettler Twitter

Hammerstone

arel

RailsConf 2022

lol_dba-GitHub

Derailed Benchmarks

Saving Ruby from the Apocalypse with Jason Charnes (RubyConf 2017)


Parsers, Interpreters, and YJIT with Kevin Newton

Episode 171

vendredi 18 mars 2022Duration 57:04

[00:05:09] Kevin gives us a brief introduction of himself. 


[00:07:33] Kevin tells us about the grant he received, and he tells us about rubyfmt and SyntaxTree.


[00:12:27] We learn why you have to do plugins in your language and why Kevin is convinced we need a new parser for Ruby.


[00:16:43] Jason wonders if prettier was Kevin’s first introduction to parsers and how he got so knowledgeable about it.


[00:17:50] Find out about Kevin’s blog post on ripper, which he calls a “very confusing library.”


[00:19:08] With the work Kevin is doing with ripper, the work he’s doing with SyntaxTree, and the grant, Jason wonders if he sees SyntaxTree getting adopted by Ruby Core one day or live as a standalone project.


[00:20:58] We find out with SyntaxTree, if Kevin has a specific Ruby version he targets or because it’s built on ripper can he just keep going back to Ruby.


[00:22:37] Kevin talks about formatting and how there’s no configuration, and also tells us about Reek.


[00:26:55] Find out about a VS Code extension for SyntaxTree using Standard.

 

[00:31:33] We learn about Kevin’s experiences and thoughts on Sorbet and RBS.


[00:36:41] Kevin works on YJIT at Shopify, he tells us how his experience has been since joining the team, and what his average workday looks like.


[00:42:13] Find out the benefits of Porting C to Rust and if there are any effects running that in a production application.

 

[00:48:47] Chris wonders what’s some of the hardest stuff on YJIT coming up.


[00:53:40] Kevin shares three great books to read if you are interested in learning more about compilers or Ruby.


[00:55:29] Find out where you can follow Kevin online.



Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason



Guest:

Kevin Newton



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Kevin Newton Twitter

Kevin Newton GitHub

Kevin Newton Website

Rufo (Ruby formatter)

Rubyfmt (Ruby format)

SyntaxTree

Prettier for Ruby

Formatting Ruby: Part 1- How ripper works (Kevin Newton Blog)

Reek

Vscode-syntax-tree

Steep-Gradual Typing for Ruby

Sorbet

TypeProf

Ruby Sorbet for VS Code

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom


Taylor Otwell, creator of the Laravel Framework

Episode 170

vendredi 11 mars 2022Duration 54:14

[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 working on the framework itself.


[00:15:13] Jason asks how the whole Rails framework on Lambda came about and what some of the technical challenges were.


[00:17:02] We find out how Taylor makes code so appealing. 


[00:18:47] Jason brings up how there are a lot of first party packages in Laravel and asks Taylor if this blossomed over the years or if he realized he wanted all these things just baked into the framework.


[00:23:39] Chris likes how Forge came out Taylor building his own stuff, and Taylor explains how the Ruby and JavaScript communities have such a wider variety of talented programmers.

 

[00:26:09] We find out about what led Taylor into building Forge, Envoyer, Laravel Spark, Laravel Cashier, and Laravel Nova.


[00:28:21] Find out what Taylor’s favorite Laravel package is.


[00:30:11] Taylor gives us examples of how Rails has influenced Laravel. 


[00:32:04] Chris wonders is Taylor was familiar with a lot of stuff when he started Laravel or if there’s was a lot of learning along the way.


[00:36:45] Jason asks Taylor about Laravel Mix, a wrapper around Webpack, and he explains how front-end development in the Laravel world and Rails world is in a period of exploration.


[00:42:57] Find out about the Laravel Documentary that just came out! 


[00:45:01] What’s next for Laravel?


[00:47:43] If you want to try Laravel, find out the easiest way to get started, and Taylor tells us how starting his own business has been and the challenges.


[00:53:45] Find out where you can follow Taylor online.



Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason



Guest:

Taylor Otwell



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Taylor Otwell Twitter

Taylor Otwell LinkedIn

Taylor Otwell GitHub

Laravel

UserScape

LaraCon

Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson and Matthew Linderman

Larav


Bridgetown 1.0 with Jared White

Episode 169

vendredi 4 mars 2022Duration 43:21

[00:05:08] Jared tells us about himself, what he does, and how Bridgetown was born.


[00:09:45] Andrew plugs going on GitHub and sponsoring Jared.


[00:10:15] Bridgetown 1.0 is almost here, and Jared tells us more.  


[00:15:47] We find out what else is new in Bridgetown since the guys last talked.  He tells us more about how he used Roda.


[00:23:41] Chris asks Jared if he ever thought about using a Turbo Frame for the little snippet of HTML that he wants to lazy load, and Andrew explains how the new Bridgetown seems faster. 


[00:26:16] Jared shares how he sees Bridgetown now versus what’s in the future. 


[00:30:26] Andrew talks about a blog post Jared wrote.


[00:33:37] The guys chat about WebAssembly stuff.


[00:36:13] Jared tells us something he’s been excited about recently is everything GitHub is doing with GitHub Codespaces.

 

[00:37:15] Jared goes over a few more things about Bridgetown v1.


[00:41:37] Find out where you can follow Jared online.





Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason



Guest:

Jared White



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Remote Ruby-Episode 78: Bridgetown Ruby with Jared White

Jared White Twitter

Jared White Website

Jared White GitHub

Bridgetown 

Bridgetown Blog

Jared White GitHub Sponsor

Roda

Ruby2JS

Bridgetown Discord

GitHub Codespaces

RailsConf 2022


Jason and Andrew Answer the Twitters

Episode 168

vendredi 25 février 2022Duration 42:25

[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. 


[00:18:20] Next question: Tabs or Spaces? Find out why this pun was so good and why it made Andrew angry. 


[00:18:51] Next question: Can you talk about Alfred?


[00:22:19] Next Tweet: Someone said, Avo HQ (just kidding) and any open source communities you know about and what makes them cool.


[00:23:31] Next question: How much fun did you both have recording Code and the Coding Coders who Code it with Drew Bragg? The guys have a shining Brittany moment.


[00:25:28] Next question: Four topics in one Tweet, One underrated gem each. 


[00:28:07] Next Tweet: Andrew’s path to Podia, which includes a story of Jason buying him lobster ☺.


[00:31:10] Next question: What is Jason going to talk about at Sin City Ruby?


[00:34:27] Next question: Why is Laravel so great? Jason announces he wants to do an entire episode on this soon.


[00:35:57] Next Tweet: The intersection of Rails and Web3.


[00:38:03] Next Tweet: Hibachi. Jason and Andrew share their protein stories. 


[00:39:17] Last Tweet: Thoughts on transpilers list would be cool.  Andrew thinks this person meant to say transcompilation.



Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Andrew Mason



Sponsor:

Hook Relay



Links:

Jason Charnes Twitter

Andrew Mason Twitter

Ruby Radar Newsletter

Ruby Radar Twitter

Haml

YAML

Podia

Sonic Pi

Alfred

Avo 

The Ruby on Rails Podcast with Brittany Martin and Brain Mariani

Bridgetown 

Code and the Coding Coders who Code it with Drew Bragg (Podcast)

dry-rb

faker

Sin City Ruby 2022 (March 24-25, Las Vegas)

Laravel



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