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Remote Ruby

Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hillwww.remoteruby.com

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

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Joined 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 ...

May 15, 202053 minEp. 77

Stimulus 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...

May 08, 202059 minEp. 76

$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...

Apr 25, 20201 hr 11 minEp. 75

From 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] ...

Apr 16, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 74

ViewComponent, 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 runni...

Apr 10, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 73

Sheltering 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. [...

Apr 05, 202046 minEp. 72

Javascript 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...

Mar 27, 202043 minEp. 71

Railsconf 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 o...

Mar 20, 20201 hr 6 minEp. 70

Multitenancy, 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 ...

Mar 13, 202058 minEp. 69

Tailwind 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...

Mar 06, 202057 minEp. 68

New Jumpstart Features, Postponing Southeast Ruby 2020, and (Possibly) a New Online Ruby Conference

Jumpstart Pro Uppy Southeast Ruby Pruner This Week in Rails Nate Berkopec: "Part of the reason I continue to invest in Ruby is that no one ever says "I stopped using Ruby because it wasn't very productive/expressive/fun". No one is switching to <insert meme language of the moment here> because it's "more" of one of those things." Using Ruby in 2019 Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Jan 31, 202056 minEp. 63

"Just Keep Hitting Tab"

Learn Rails by Building Instagram Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Jan 20, 202046 minEp. 62

Concerns, Interactors, and Ruby 2.7 Features (Ruby 2.7 Christmas Day 🎉)

On Writing Software Well Refactoring the Gilded Rose Enough With the Service Objects Already Concerns in Code Fund Source Code What's New in Ruby 2.7 Only 15% of the Basecamp Operations Budget is Spent on Ruby Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Dec 23, 201955 minEp. 61

Introducing Andrew Mason, CI Tooling, Ruby 2.7 Features, Rails 6.1 on the Radar

Rubocop Linter GitHub Action What's New in Ruby 2.7 Pattern Matching - New Feature in Ruby 2.7 by Kazuki Tsujimoto Model 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...

Dec 06, 201953 minEp. 59

Building Chat Applications, GitHub Actions, HatchBox Features, and Mistakes

In this pre-Thanksgiving episode released post-Thanksgiving, we talk about what it was like working with ActionCable and React on Podia's latest feature, messaging. We also talk through GitHub actions, some of the features of HatchBox (including using DigitalOcean Spaces as a drop-in S3 replacement), and a plethora of mistakes I (Jason) have made over the last two weeks. Best yet, we cram it into forty minutes. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Dec 03, 201941 minEp. 58

Better Late Than Never

Payments with Rails Master Class Fieldhelp Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Nov 25, 201941 minEp. 57

Managed Databases in Hatchbox, Stripe Workflows, ActionText, and ActionMailbox

In this episode, we talk about Chris' adventures implementing managed database support into HatchBox, the different workflows you can take when implementing Stripe into an application, and Jason's Rails 6 project using both ActionText and ActionMailbox. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Oct 25, 201942 minEp. 56

Testing in Ruby

I said the word "RSpec" a couple of minutes in, and then we spent 40 minutes talking about testing. We talk about our separate tastes of Minitest and RSpec, TDD, JavaScript testing, and more! Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Oct 18, 201945 minEp. 55

Catching Up

After two weeks off, we took some time to sit down and talk. We chat about Chris' experience with SCA while updating Pay, upcoming HatchBox updates, Jason's mini side project, and enjoy some other banter. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Oct 11, 201937 minEp. 54

Building Kolide with Jason Meller

Jason Meller on Twitter Bad Blood David Goggins American Kingpin Kolide Kolide on Twitter Inertia.js osquery Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Sep 27, 201951 minEp. 53

Joined by Andrew Mason

Andrew on Twitter Andrew on GitHub Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Sep 20, 201952 minEp. 52

StimulusReflex with Nate Hopkins

StimulusReflex Nate Hopkins' Twitter Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Sep 14, 201943 minEp. 51

Turning 50

GoRails: How to use Multiple Databases in Rails 6.0 Jeykll Tailwind Starter GoRails: Preventing Conflicts with Optimistic Locking (Pro) GoRails: Handle Race Conditions with Pessimistic Locking (Pro) Chris Oliver Jason Charnes Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Aug 30, 20191 hr 1 minEp. 50

Joined by Jacob Herrington

devpath.fm jh.codes Jacob on Twitter Solidus Open Source Made Me $10K Working Part-Time for 30 Days Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...

Aug 23, 201958 minEp. 49
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