Framework Friends

Aaron Francis and Andrew Culver•www.frameworkfriends.com

Aaron Francis and Andrew Culver compare notes on their experiences as developers in the Laravel and Ruby on Rails ecosystems.

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Episodes

Video

Aaron and Andrew talk about recent experiments in video production including Aaron's upcoming MySQL for Developers course and Andrew's YouTube videos from The Rails SaaS Conference . Aaron's "confidence monitor" "Launching a SaaS in Nine Hours using Rails and Bullet Train" Screenflow Recut The complete collection of Aaron's short form Twitter videos seasoned with dank but unrelated memes An actual example of Aaron's short form videos An example of Andrew's feature release videos "Getting to One ...

Feb 21, 2023•43 min•Ep. 10

Testing

Knapsack Pro CircleCI GitHub Actions Test-Driven Laravel Example testing outside the happy path with system tests. Magic Test for Rails Magic Test for Laravel...

Jan 17, 2023•50 min•Ep. 9

APIs

OpenAPI OpenAPI Client Generator JSON:API Active Resource PyActiveResource Trucker Stripe's API Search Hammerstone Refine...

Dec 13, 2022•57 min•Ep. 8

Conferences

Full Stack Europe 2022 Photo of Aaron doing the splits on stage Aaron's article on The ReadME Project The Rails SaaS Conference Brittany Martin's Rails SaaS recap on The Ruby on Rails Podcast Photo of the disastrous chair rental...

Nov 19, 2022•43 min•Ep. 7

Remix with Kent C. Dodds

Kent's Website Kent on Twitter Remix Epic React

Jun 27, 2022•56 min•Ep. 6

(Extra) RailsConf Podcast Panel

As mentioned in the last episode, we're sharing in our feed the RailsConf Podcast Panel where Andrew represented Framework Friends. If you're interested in some insider discussion from the Rails community, enjoy! Otherwise, stay tuned for a new episode of Framework Friends later this week!

Jun 20, 2022•42 min

The Rails SaaS Conference

The Rails SaaS Conference Andrew's announcement Jason Cohen's famous MicroConf talk (from around the era we were talking about)

Jun 10, 2022•33 min•Ep. 5

Phoenix and LiveView with Chris McCord

Phoenix Framework and LiveView The Elixir Programming Language Fly.io Chris McCord on Twitter

May 20, 2022•56 min•Ep. 4

Laravel Nova 4.0

Aaron's Announcement Stripe Capital Laravel Nova Hammerstone Refine Sidekiq Pro

Apr 29, 2022•49 min•Ep. 3

Bullet Train Goes Open-Source

We debrief about Sin City Ruby and Aaron asks Andrew questions about the technical, product, and business details of the announcement that Bullet Train is now available as an open-source Rails-based framework with a paid "Pro" tier, while also sharing insights from earlier, similar developments in the Laravel product line.

Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 2

Origin Stories

Sharing what originally drew Aaron to Laravel and Andrew to Ruby on Rails, and how it relates to what we're each working on today.

Mar 15, 2022•47 min•Ep. 1

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