[00:00:51] Chris gives a shout-out to Adam McCrea, the Developer behind the Rails Autoscale for Heroku, and how he grew the product over the course of three years and had $300,000 in annual revenue. He was recently talking about it on an episode of “Startups For the Rest of Us.” [00:02:21] The guys talk about feeling burnt out, Chris going on vacation in two weeks, Andrew needing a massage or float therapy, and good books to read. [00:08:48] Andrew tells us he is slowly working his way through m...
Jul 16, 2021•48 min•Ep. 137
[00:00:15] Since Jason’s been gone a few weeks, the guys have a chat to catch up. Jason tells us how it’s been going at home since the arrival of his baby daughter, Chris gives us an update of what’s going on with his new house, and Andrew tells us he’s been busy with his website and doing upgrades. [00:07:19] Andrew informs us how he regrets making all those GitHub actions a while ago, and he explains why. [00:09:02] Andrew talks about Adam Wathan and what he’s been tweeting about with GitHub i...
Jul 09, 2021•25 min•Ep. 136
[00:02:00] Chris and Andrew reminisce about Wii Fit, Dungeons & Dragons, and card games, which we learn Andrew became a cheater in card games. [00:04:57] Andrew gives two shout-outs, Jason Swett had his hundredth podcast of “Rails with Jason” this week, and Brittany Martin moved her Ruby on Rails podcast. [00:07:50] Andrew shares some interesting information he learned about companies moving away from whiteboard interviews and now doing pairing interviews, and Chris talks about how important...
Jul 02, 2021•53 min•Ep. 135
[00:03:38] Cameron fills us in on a project he’s working on called Kuby, and how he got started on it. [00:10:07] Cameron walks us through setting Kuby up for the first time. [00:13:33] Chris wonders how Kuby works with databases. Cameron tells us about another really cool project called KubeDB. [00:15:38] We learn how different things work in Kubernetes, such as SSH, Cron, and running Migrations. [00:19:21] Cameron talks about Kubernetes having its own Cron job system, and Chris tells us he can...
Jun 25, 2021•54 min•Ep. 134
[00:00:58] We start off by Andrew telling us he’s working in a weird area of the internet doing stuff with Adobe and the guys catch up on what’s going on in their lives. [00:07:59] It’s not a joke! Jason wants to talk about Haml, and how interested and excited he is to see they’re working on it again (you can certainly hear the cheering from Andrew). ☺ Andrew talks about Haml released their “roadmap” for what they want to do and how they’re trying to get some funds on Google sponsors. [00:09:55]...
Jun 18, 2021•41 min•Ep. 133
[00:00:50] Andrew fills us in on the Ruby Radar stuff and if anyone is interested in being a part of it or helping out you can reach out to him! [00:03:25] Andrew tells us about using elink which is like a bookmarking tool. [00:05:03] Chris tells us about doing email work for the job board he wants to set up and we find out what happens since it’s been awhile that he did any CSS work in email. [00:07:32] Andrew explains what Maizzle does and how it works. [00:12:07] Chris tells us about Rails Re...
Jun 11, 2021•57 min•Ep. 132
[00:00:49] Andrew tells us Brittany Martin released a great podcast episode with Evan Phoenix and Marty Haught, about behind the scenes of Railsconf, and a story about how a man’s submarine was running Ruby. [00:04:56] We hear about Andrew’s move and the crazy things that happened before he moved, which included his house catching on fire and finding a place to live in Arizona during a housing shortage, and his experience shopping for furniture at IKEA for the first time in his life! ☺ [00:11:40...
Jun 04, 2021•48 min•Ep. 131
[00:03:26] CJ tells us about himself and what he does at Stripe. [00:07:18] We learn about two different paths and what Stripe does beyond card payments. [00:09:21] Chris wonders since CJ knows Ruby, if he ends up doing every language and every front-end framework too. Chris talks about using Sinatra as well. [00:12:48] CJ asks Chris how much Swift code he had to write or if he was using SwiftUI for his newly released iOS app for Jumpstart. [00:15:32] CJ helps Chris out with how he can do paymen...
May 28, 2021•44 min•Ep. 130
[00:05:33] Jason introduces himself and tells us what he does. [00:06:48] Jason defines what a service object is and how he views them, and then asks the guys if they use service objects and what comes to mind when they hear the term service objects. [00:11:45] We find out about a blog post that Jason wrote recently that he tells us about. [00:13:49] Chris talks about good complicated examples are the hardest to come up with, and Jason tells us about a challenge he had with cases in his own work...
May 21, 2021•41 min•Ep. 129
[00:00:49] What an interesting week for Andrew! Find out exactly what happened to him and all about his “concerns” he had at work. [00:07:41] Chris was on Twitter this week talking about maybe bringing back “Rails Rumble” and he would love to make it happen but would need help. [00:12:20] We find out if anyone has participated in a Hackathon before. Chris and Jason talk about one time they tried to have their own Hackathon and what happened. [00:18:27] Andrea, the “Caddy Expert,” tells us all ab...
May 14, 2021•42 min•Ep. 128
[00:01:59] Jason tells us about WNB.rb, which is a new virtual community for women and non-binary Rubyists to get involved in. [00:03:23] Joe tells us all about himself and what he does. [00:05:08] We learn how it was in the early days when Joe was just using the Turbolinks version. [00:09:20] Joe tells us things he’s built in the past especially when people are trying to convert their app to mobile. [00:13:48] JavaScript Bridge is talked about, how to use it, and how Joe learned about it. [00:1...
Apr 30, 2021•51 min•Ep. 127
[00:02:05] We learn how RailsConf 2021 was from Chris, and Andrew makes an announcement that he’s moving out of state and something about always wanting to be a trucker. ☺ [00:07:45] Chris fills us in on what he talked about at RailsConf 2021, which was on Action Text, Turbo, and ActionMailbox. [00:10:51] Jason tells us about using Action Text and what happened. Chris and Andrew chat more about Action Text, Trix, and Markdown Editor. [00:14:34] Turbo Native is brought up and Chris talks about wo...
Apr 23, 2021•51 min•Ep. 126
After Jason talked about his side project last week, he tells us he had to abandon Stripe checkout and did something else instead, and Chris announced he just did a Stripe Checkout video for GoRails this week. Joining us on today’s episode, we have Joel Hawksley, an Engineer at GitHub and creator of ViewComponent. We learn what ViewComponents are, how Joel came up with the idea, and his latest experiment and vision for it, which is a big one. Joel tells us some ideas he has for Cuprite, and Andr...
Apr 16, 2021•56 min•Ep. 125
[00:01:51] Jason tells us he’s been on “bug rotation” at Podia this week and he shares how they do it. [00:05:53] Chris explains how he was working on some Rewardful stuff. [00:08:00] Jason announces Andrea Fomera has released her Hotwire course and some great things that have happened with that. [00:12:05] Jason tells us about a new side project he’s been working on which is an E-commerce platform for physical goods aimed towards print shops. He picks Chris’s brain about payment gotchas he’s co...
Apr 09, 2021•40 min•Ep. 124
[00:03:19] Andrew starts us off with a funny story starting with having some discrepancies on staging and locally and using redirect back method. [00:06:52] Chris and Andrew dive into discussing Leftpad. [00:12:05] Chris brings up the fiasco that went down on Twitter with mimemagic dependency and Andrew explains it. [00:18:39] We learn about a new version of Rails that was just released, and Chris mentions the mimemagic gem has 110 million downloads! Andrew gives a shout-out to Jon Wood. [00:23:...
Apr 02, 2021•49 min•Ep. 123
[00:01:45] Fred gives us a brief introduction of what he’s working on these days. [00:03:50] Fred did a conference talk about the Third Age of JavaScript and he tells us what it is. [00:07:07] Andrew asks Fred to explain what ESM is and modules. [00:10:53] We learn about using Skypack when Andrew brings up about not having to run NPM install on your local machine. [00:14:30] Chris wonders if there is a use for Babel still in the ESM world or not. [00:16:37] We find out more about Snowpack. [00:2...
Mar 26, 2021•50 min•Ep. 122
[00:01:00] The guys chat about what happened this week in their lives, getting COVID vaccines, and Chris trying to get a title transferred on an old car. [00:10:57] Andrew poses a question to Jason and Chris which has to do with Delegated Types. Chris and Jason have a discussion about using it. [00:17:13] Chris mentions pagination being a problem and how querying and then merging could work. After having the discussion, Andrew says it all makes sense to him. [00:22:14] Jason tells us about a pre...
Mar 19, 2021•40 min•Ep. 121
[00:04:17] Chris asks the guys if they submitted a talk to RailsConf 2021. Andrew tells us about a virtual talk at a meetup he’s giving in June. [00:08:53] Chris tells us about something he helped start a long time ago called LaunchCode. [00:11:58] Find out what Chris’s submission to RailConf 2021 is on. [00:16:54] Chris helps Andrew understand Turbo better. [00:25:40] Jason talks about wondering what it would be like to shove turbo into React Native since he’s built stuff in it. Chris shares hi...
Mar 12, 2021•47 min•Ep. 120
[00:01:40] Mike tells us about himself, what he was doing before he started Sidekiq, and what led in the idea of him starting it. [00:03:46] Jason asks Mike if he thinks a lot of thread safe code in our ecosystem came from just people adopting Sidekiq, and when he started Sidekiq did he have plans of it becoming paid tiers or was it purely an open source project at the time. [00:06:07] When he moved to the open core model, Mike tells us if he had both the pro and enterprise license at one time o...
Mar 05, 2021•41 min•Ep. 119
[00:02:42] Andrew does a follow up from last week when he talked about moving and archiving repos and he gives an update. Jason tells us problems they’ve had with Dependabot. [00:05:36] We learn about Andrew perfecting a gem release workflow and using Conventional Commits. [00:09:43] Chris was busy this week and he tells us about a live stream he did with Freek Van der Herten, who created an app called Ray. [00:13:15] Find out about the product streaming Chris did with 12in12.io and how he did a...
Feb 26, 2021•49 min•Ep. 118
[00:00:22] The guys share stories of things that happened to them this past week. [00:06:30] Jason announces he got all his testing videos done for his course and it pushed him to do more work on the StimulusReflex testing library. [00:09:25] Chris asks the guys if they knew of a library that has test helpers for both frameworks. [00:12:22] Jason tells us his testimonials are done and he’s hit a weird spot with the app being a little bit incomplete, and he’s thinking about making a video. [00:14...
Feb 19, 2021•43 min•Ep. 117
[00:01:43] The guys chat about callbacks. [00:04:46] Chris tells us about the new course he did, “Ruby on Rails for Beginners.” [00:08:58] Andrew asks Chris if he actually talked to people who are newer in Rails to figure out about the pry or if he had a sense of it because of where he’s at in the community. [00:11:57] Jason hints at wanting to make a course on SQL for Active Record for Rails Developers, which gets Chris and Andrew excited. [00:14:22] Chris mentions how he put up a bare bones si...
Feb 12, 2021•38 min•Ep. 116
[00:01:50] Brian tells us what he does and how he got into Rails. [00:04:15] We learn about Brian’s company, Audience Ops, and ProcessKit, which is a SaaS product that he’s been working on. [00:05:40] Jason is curious to know what it was like for Brian to build his first product on WordPress. Also, he talks about learning Rails to build SaaS apps. [00:11:58] Brian tells us about building Sunrise KPI in Ruby. [00:13:28] Chris is curious to know if Brian’s designer focus makes him a little bit mor...
Feb 05, 2021•40 min•Ep. 115
[00:00:41] Chris and Jason tell us what they’ve been working on with Hotwire and StimulusReflex. [00:03:19] Tobias tells us all about himself and what he does at Makandra. [00:05:04] Tobias explains to us the idea behind Rails LTS, why it was created, and what it does for people. He talks about a Tweet by Patrick McKenzie. [00:08:08] Chris asks Tobias if it’s hard to maintain all that stuff or even just keeping an eye on the security vulnerabilities, and if he can monitor the newer versions of R...
Jan 29, 2021•31 min•Ep. 114
[00:00:34] DHH jumps right into telling us what the response has been to Hotwire and how Basecamp has felt about the response. [00:04:02] DHH talks about a book they published in 2013 and mentions to “wait for the pendulum to come your way,” and how this relates to Hotwire. He also talks about Turbo. [00:08:06] Since Hotwire, the whole package, is a separate gem you bring in, Jason asks DHH if long term, that will continue to be the case or if that will ship with Rails. [00:15:39] Rails 7 is bro...
Jan 19, 2021•53 min•Ep. 113
[00:01:20] Nate tells us a little bit about himself, what he does, and a book he wrote. [00:02:18] Nate talks about the Rails Performance workshop he released a month ago. [00:06:02] Jason asks Nate if he has any plans to go back into the in-person training or if he will keep the current format if it’s showing more advantages. [00:08:03] If you are interested in learning more about performance, Nate shares advice what you should do. [00:09:37] Jason announces that today we are basking in the rel...
Jan 15, 2021•39 min•Ep. 112
[00:01:41] Jason dropped his StimulusReflex course in early access and he tells us how the initial reception of it is and how he’s feeling about it. [00:09:21] Andrew explains the differences between Snowpack’s more like Webpacker, and he mentions Skypack and Snowpack pair very nice together. [00:18:07] Andrew tells us that Webpack is just a bunch of Webpack config rolled into a nice easy to use and they took most of the use cases of Webpack and bundled it into a gem. He mentions the web server ...
Jan 08, 2021•46 min•Ep. 111
[00:01:44] Robby tells us who is he and some of things he’s involved with. [00:02:42] Robby tells us about Z shells being the default on macOS and if more people are using it. [00:04:04] Since Robby’s been in the Rails Community for a long time, he tells us how things have changed and how he got into Ruby on Rails and Z shell. [00:16:34] Robby tells us about doing something in Postgres, but curious about using DRb (distributed object system for Ruby,) and a story about a past FOSSCON he went to ...
Jan 01, 2021•51 min•Ep. 110
[00:00:25] Jason tells us about his busy Black Friday weekend and having to use Rails Autoscale, and Chris mentions Shopify’s graph showing their traffic for the weekend. [00:02:51] Jason tells us what’s new in the Ruby on Rails world and mentions RC2, and Chris tested Jumpstart Pro against RC1. Jason talks about something is wrong with his RC and it may be something with the version of Ruby he’s using. He also tells us about a Full Stack Radio episode with Adam Wathan talking about Screencastin...
Dec 25, 2020•40 min•Ep. 108
Hotwire The live stream Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter...
Dec 22, 2020•47 min•Ep. 109
