[00:03:50] Joel tells us about himself, what led him to creating Phlex, and what problem he was trying to solve with it. [00:08:13] We find out the testing story and how the reception has been with Phlex. [00:13:45] Andrew brings up how Joel has been doing a lot of performance stuff with Phlex and Joel explains how he’s making the benchmarks and how he’s figuring out all these performance things. [00:16:53] Joel shares some interesting things he’s tried that were easy and one that had the bigges...
Sep 16, 2022•37 min•Ep. 197
[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 cl...
Sep 09, 2022•50 min•Ep. 196
[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...
Sep 02, 2022•36 min•Ep. 195
[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 party JavaScript ...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 194
[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 ex...
Aug 19, 2022•38 min•Ep. 193
[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, whi...
Aug 12, 2022•44 min•Ep. 192
[00:02:46] Andrew tells us about being on the Rubber Duck Dev Show livestream with Collin Jilbert. [00:05:14] Have you ever used Alfred? Andrew fills us in on the app and Raycast. [00:12:15] Chris explains the “gem mining” he’s been doing. [00:16:38] Andrew and Chris chat about using SQLite. [00:20:41] Andrew asks Chris if he ever thinks how much extra code it is to have to support all these different things. Chris explains why he doesn’t think it be a whole lot. [00:23:20] We find out when Chri...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 191
[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 m...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 190
Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! We’ve been trying to have our guest on for a really long time, and that time is here folks! Today, we're joined by Konnor Rogers, a Developer at Microsoft known for his knowledge of all things front-end. On this episode, we’ll hear Konnor’s journey from being an EMT, getting into tech, and Andrew introducing him to Snowpack. Konnor tells us more about a new JavaScript runtime called Bun, his go-to Vite Ruby, and using Import Maps as a start tool....
Jul 22, 2022•59 min•Ep. 189
Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us! Do you want to know the secret to getting on the Rails Core Team? Click the play button now to find out. On today’s episode, our special guest from the Rails Core Team is Xavier Noria, who’s the author of Zeitwerk, author of Rails Contributors, and gave the keynote at RailsConf 2022. We’ll find out more about Xavier and how got his start into programming. He then takes us through the early days of Rails and how it’s changed, what led him into wor...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 188
[00:00:42] Each panelist gives us an introduction, where they’re calling from, and what they’re known for. [00:04:23] Aaron tells us about Tuple and what he does there. [00:06:51] Andy shares his thoughts on why it matters to him that we had a successful in-person RailsConf and if he thinks conference participation is going to keep people in the community. [00:08:11] As a virtual community organizer, Jemma tells us how attendees of a virtual conference like RailsConf could get the most out of it...
Jul 08, 2022•41 min•Ep. 187
[00:08:50] Ufuk tells us how he got into programming and Ruby, and how he applied to a job that was put out by Rafael França. [00:12:21] We learn about how large the team was when Ufuk became manager, the growth of the, and if he had to learn a lot of management stuff. [00:14:48] Ufuk gives is an overview of what his Ruby Infrastructure team encompasses. [00:20:07] Does Shopify have any production services running TruffleRuby? [00:22:21] If TuffleRuby becomes the Ruby implementation at Shopify, ...
Jul 01, 2022•48 min•Ep. 186
[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...
Jun 24, 2022•54 min•Ep. 185
[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. [00:17:53] The Sas...
Jun 17, 2022•58 min•Ep. 184
[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. [00:25:26] Steve explains how working at...
Jun 10, 2022•40 min•Ep. 183
[00:00:00] Jemma Issroff: Live from Portland at rails comp 2020. We're recording a podcast panel crossover episode. I'm Gemma is off one of the co-hosts of the Ruby on rails podcast. I'll be moderating this panel. We have five podcasts represented here across eight panelists. We're going to go around to start and hear what all everyone is excited about. For rails comp. First up, we have Brittany Martin from the Ruby on rails podcast. Brittany, what talker workshop are you most looking forward to...
Jun 01, 2022•42 min•Ep. 182
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 arc...
May 27, 2022•41 min•Ep. 181
[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. [...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 180
[00:01:22] Andrew tells us about a blog post he put out about his Twitter profile image and some stuff he did with his GitHub actions repo. [00:05:29] The Tweet sharing begins. Tweet #1 topic is someone who’s learning Rails, has no idea how to read the documentation or where to go, and getting lost easily. [00:13:55] Tweet #2 topic is about Matestack, and Jason brings up a previous episode they did where they talked about it with Jonas Jabari. [00:14:47] Tweet #3 topic is about what first timers...
May 13, 2022•36 min•Ep. 179
[00:01:29] José tells us his background and what he does, and Seth explains how he found himself on a Ruby podcast with the Elixir creator. [00:03:47] We find out how José got started in Ruby and progress into being a Rails core team member. [00:07:40] We hear how José went from being a Rails core team member to creating Elixir, and he tells us about an influential paper called, “The Free Lunch Is Over.” [00:24:28] José talks about the story of Elixir, the story around putting it into the world,...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 178
[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 librar...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 177
[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 u...
Apr 22, 2022•49 min•Ep. 176
[00:03:05] Chris tells us more about the bug he was trying to fix, working on Stripe tax support, Stripe payment element and addresses, and he fills us in on a JavaScript tool that Shopify for formatting addresses in different countries that makes Andrew sweat. [00:07:28] As a follow up from last week’s episode, Andrew defines “Posterized.” [00:08:06] The guys chat about WebAssembly stuff. [00:11:49] Andrew talks about playing around with mruby, and Chris tells us about what he did with a Raspbe...
Apr 15, 2022•45 min•Ep. 175
[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 T...
Apr 08, 2022•44 min•Ep. 174
[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...
Apr 01, 2022•53 min•Ep. 173
[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 ...
Mar 25, 2022•44 min•Ep. 172
[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.”...
Mar 18, 2022•57 min•Ep. 171
[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 bet...
Mar 11, 2022•54 min•Ep. 170
[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 ...
Mar 04, 2022•43 min•Ep. 169
[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...
Feb 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 168
