[00:03:37] The guys catch up on what’s been going on in their lives. [00:10:58] Jason tells us he’s been refactoring and cranking out view components. Chris talks about the transition that he went from building the notifications things and refactoring it. [00:14:04] Chris asks the guys if they’ve done any other stimulus reflex features that they’re going to try and build or if they’re mostly focused on the site preview thing. Jason’s main focus is the editor. Chris tell us what he does for notif...
Aug 21, 2020•57 min•Ep. 90
On today’s episode, Chris and Andrew have brought back their good friend, Steve Polito, to give us an update on his new job! Yes, he got a job after being a guest on our podcast! 😄 He will fill us in on what the interviewing process was like, what he does at his new job, how GitHub has helped him, and helpful advice on things he’s learned in the process of finding of job that he will share with you. Chris and Andrew share some stories and advice as well. Do you have “imposter syndrome?” Find ou...
Aug 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 88
[00:00:25] Chris has been tweeting about doing notifications in Rails and trying to build and he asks the guys if they’ve used any notifications gems in Rails or have they built it from scratch or what have they done in the past. Chris mentions about something Palkan wrote about Active Delivery. [00:06:34] Chris talks about getting a Tweet from Steve Polito about writing Gems is a good way of pushing your learning. [00:10:35] Jason tells us what notifications are to him, which is always a thing ...
Aug 07, 2020•44 min•Ep. 89
[00:03:02] Jason and Chris chat about moving, selling, and designing their new homes. Chris has gone down a rabbit hole lately and tells us to check out a Matt Risinger, a builder in Texas, on YouTube. [00:11:20] Jason talks about using Stripe's hosted billing stuff and it was a dream come true. Chris brings up Paddle and wanting to try it. [00:21:19] Chris has been spending the past few days extracting every string out of Jumpstart Pro into Locales and he finds there some cool stuff and so...
Jul 31, 2020•54 min•Ep. 87
[00:02:20] Andrew and Chris chat about Slim, Tailwind, and Components. They also mention Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan, who are the creators, designers, and developers of Tailwind CSS, and how they built this framework and then taught you how to use it. [00:08:32] Andrew talks about why he’s been invested in Tailwind since college. Chris talks about how you can a lot of Bootstrap themes in Tailwind. The guys also discuss GitHub and Patreon sponsorships. [00:14:57] Webpack configs is talked about...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 86
Welcome to Remote Ruby! The guys are all back together this week! In the last episode, COVID-19 was talked about, so the guys want to shift the focus to new and better things happening in the Gem world, like DHH’s Hey’s Gemfile and Basecamps Gemfile. Jason made an Avatar Component and how he uses formBuilder. They guys also talk about WebAuthn Gem, Two-factor Authentication, and Turbolinks. There are some newer Gems out there they discuss as well and some of their favorites. Jason brings back an...
Jul 10, 2020•53 min•Ep. 85
[00:01:03] Andrew fills us in on being laid off from his job and he talks about how his job search is going. [00:09:32] Jason asks Andrew how the interviewing process has been going and if he’s had to do any whiteboarding. Andrew tells us what he’s had to do for some interviews. [00:14:32] Andrew tells us he’s been redoing his website with BridgetownRB, Tailwind, and little bit of Stimulus. He also mentions Tailwind Builder and what it does. He gives a s/o to Jared White from BridgetownRB who wa...
Jul 03, 2020•47 min•Ep. 84
Welcome to Remote Ruby! On this episode, we have Jason and Chris. Chris tells us that their Hey email addresses got secured and that makes him excited for Rails 6.1. Jason brings up his struggles with MiniTests and Chris comes to the rescue and helps him out. Also, the guys have discussions on Tailwind CSS and PurgeCSS config, working on field help, RSpec, Factories, Fixtures, Faker and Mocha Gems, and Shoulda Matchers. We end with finding out Jason is publishing the Stimulus Reflex Testing Libr...
Jun 26, 2020•51 min•Ep. 83
[00:06:10] Jason starts out by talking about working on action cable this past weekend since he uses stimulus reflex for everything in life and he couldn’t control the logging. Chris mentions he had a similar issue happen to him. [00:10:00] Andrew chimes in to say he thinks this is a place where components can really shine with cable ready. Jason talks about using components at work. [00:13:19] Chris wonders if Jason has dropped down into Cable Ready since he’s been using Stimulus Reflex a lot. ...
Jun 19, 2020•52 min•Ep. 82
[00:03:20] Jason talks about the form stuff he’s been working on in Reflex. [00:08:02] Nick tells us about the background of “Past Rubies,” which has been on hiatus since Christmas, but will be reappearing in the next month. [00:15:12] The merge of Rails and Merb is brought up by Chris and he mentions a fascinating blog post by Yehuda Katz. [00:21:30] Nick talks about Brighton Ruby’s alternative conference which is a remote conference this year and they are giving a hard copy of “Why’s (poignant...
Jun 12, 2020•58 min•Ep. 81
[00:02:25] Chris starts off and gives a s/o to Andrea Fomera for being one of the first GoRails subscribers and the longest subscriber. Then they explain what RailsBytes is and how they got into building it. [00:08:37] Chris talks about something they discovered working on this project and Andrea Fomera gives an example about installing things that depend on Webpacker. [00:11:45] Andrew mentions if you look at templates that exist today, people are employing different methods for adding a gem to...
Jun 05, 2020•45 min•Ep. 80
[00:04:25] Matt gives us an introduction of who he is and what he does at SEP. He also mentions his blog called, “Boring Rails.” (don’t be fooled by the name)☺ [00:05:55] Besides doing Rails at work, Matt fills us in on other things he works in. [00:08:08] Jason asks the guys if any of them have watched the “RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition” talks and what are some of their favorites. Andrew starts off talking about a Webpacker one called, “Webpacker, It-just-works, But How?’ by Justin Gordon. Als...
May 29, 2020•55 min•Ep. 79
[00:06:06] Jared gives us a summary of who he is, what he does, and how Bridgetown started. Let’s just say it was a wild ride! [00:018:11] Jared talks about defaults and how they are vital with any static site generator. Chris talks about contributing a generate page or generate page command for anybody who’s never done this before. [00:22:32] Chris mentions he’s built a few static sights recently and he was questioning going the Gatsby route or something else. He says it’s nice to have Bridgeto...
May 22, 2020•56 min•Ep. 78
[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, 2020•53 min•Ep. 77
[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, 2020•59 min•Ep. 76
[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, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 75
[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, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 74
[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, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 73
[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, 2020•46 min•Ep. 72
[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, 2020•43 min•Ep. 71
[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, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 70
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, 2020•58 min•Ep. 69
[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, 2020•57 min•Ep. 68
StimulusReflex Strong Migrations Falcon Andrew Mason's CFPs Awesome Legal TailwindCSS Stimulus Components Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 67
Jonathan Reinink (Website) Jonathan Reinink (Twitter) TailwindCSS Inertia.js Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 66
CodeFund StimulusReflex Switching between Chrome and Headless Chrome in Rails system tests Lockbox Blink Index Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...
Feb 10, 2020•57 min•Ep. 65
ChurchChat Bootstrap Shift Monoliths Attractor Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 64
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, 2020•56 min•Ep. 63
Learn Rails by Building Instagram Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter
Jan 20, 2020•46 min•Ep. 62
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, 2019•55 min•Ep. 61
