146: RubyShield, Ruby Central, and Shopify with Mike Dalessio and Evan Phoenix

In this tour-de-force, Mike Dalessio – Engineering Director at Shopify – and Evan Phoenix – self-described “long-time Rubyist” – join us for a practical discussion of all things Ruby! Ruby is a beautiful language, and we're really excited to cover the history and present of this language with two experts.

00:01:03 Introductions

00:01:49 Mike’s Ruby journey

00:12:28 Evan’s own Ruby experience

00:18:20 The pickaxe book

00:20:34 Weird programming interests

00:25:11 MINASWAN

00:30:33 Language conferences

00:36:38 Wrong answers on StackOverflow

00:41:53 RubyCentral

00:44:50 In-depth examination of Ruby

00:47:57 How Shopify sticks to vanilla Rails

00:50:28 A tale of two developers

00:59:59 Bringing Ruby up to Python’s level

01:04:48 Shopify’s largest app monolith

01:11:12 Tuning the knobs

01:18:01 How not to learn the hard way

01:18:57 Opportunities at Shopify

01:29:14 Working with the RubyShield program

01:32:07 Rails for API servers

01:33:21 Mike and Evan’s advice for listeners

01:36:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• RubyCentral:
  • Website: https://rubycentral.org/
  • RubyShield: https://rubycentral.org/ruby-shield
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubycentralorg
• Shopify:
  • Website: https://www.shopify.com/
  • Careers: https://www.shopify.com/careers
  • Dev Degree Program: https://devdegree.ca/pages/program
• HashiCorp
  • Website: https://www.hashicorp.com/
  • Careers: https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs
• Mike Dalessio:
  • Website: http://mike.daless.io/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/flavorjones
• Evan Phoenix:
  • Website: https://github.com/evanphx
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanphx
• RubyConf 2022 (Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2022):
  • Website: https://rubyconf.org/

Other Episodes:

• Episode 47: Ruby
  • Show Link: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2015/10/episode-47-ruby.html

References:

• “The Pickaxe Book” aka Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide 2nd Edition:
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers-Second/dp/0974514055

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