Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min
Valentino Stoll takes us on a tour of the "gems" of features built into the core Ruby language. We explore tips and tricks for using irb that can also improve your Rails console. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Valentino Stoll Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Dependency on mimemagic 0.3.x no longer valid Add this `.irbrc` file and your Rails console will show a colorized banner with the environment | Twitter GitHub | pry/pry Ruby Jard Tree-sitter GitHub | ruby/ruby ...
Mar 31, 2021•58 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Dave, John, and Luke get together to finish the discussion leading up to the Ruby 3.0 release. They talk about the different features and concerns that come with upgrading and/or using Ruby 3.0 and how it differs from Ruby 2.7. Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Ruby | dockerhub Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails development | Evil Martians Background Job Processing Using Ractor (Ruby 3) by André Guimarães Sakata Parallelism in Ruby with R...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get star...
Mar 16, 2021•40 min
Paweł Dąbrowski wrote a Deep Dive into Webpacker on his blog. He joins the Rogues to help the understand more of the ins and outs of Webpack and Webpacker for Ruby on Rails developers. He and the Rogues break down how to manage your JavaScript assets, how Webpacker thinks about them, and how to pull together a cohesive strategy for how to make JavaScript work in your Rails application. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Paweł Dąbrowski Sponsors Forest Admin Dev Heroes Accel...
Mar 09, 2021•49 min
In this episode, John, Luke, and Chuck begin the discussion on Ruby 3.0's release by discussing the differences and enhancements in Ruby 2.7 over version 2.6. Luke leads the charge in providing a list of the differences and the Rogues debate the merits of the various changes in the last minor release of Ruby 2 before releasing Ruby 3.0. Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Picks Charles- Wr...
Mar 02, 2021•58 min
Dave, Luke, and Chuck dive into their development setups. They talk through the different Operating Systems, IDEs, text editors, command lines, desks, chairs, etc. we all use to build our Ruby and Rails applications. Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Sponsors Forest Admin Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Empowering App Development for Developers | Docker Improving Putty settings on Windows Settings Sync in Visual Studio Code GitHub | bcicen/ctop Oh My Zsh + PowerLevel10k = 😎 terminal...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 8 min
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/131-rr-how-to-learn/ Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support ....
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 40 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ruby-rogues--6102073/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•35 min
Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he's building in his spare time. John, Dave, and Chuck dive into the current authorization gems and talk about their strengths and weaknesses and discuss how and when to use or build alternatives to them.Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Next Level Mastermind Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Dynamic Role Management | Drifting Ruby GitHub- varvet/pundit Picks Charles- Blackout C...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 6 min
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Linode Next Level Mastermind Links Devchat.tv | Dev Rev Picks Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell Charles- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell C...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min
We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on related topics like interviewing.Panel Charles Wood John Epperson Luke Stutters Sponsors Next Level Mastermind Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links The Eccentricities of Hammer and Nail by Suz Hinton Picks Charles- Next Level Mastermind Charles- The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan Charles- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This episode is focused on the release of Rails 6. David talks about the process of getting from Rails 5 to Rails 6 and some of the new features and frameworks in Rails 6. David describes some of the new features as ‘magical, which some people don’t like. He believes that the ‘magical’ element is a good thing because it reduces the learning curve for newcomers, so you can less time studyin...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming language that is a functional programming language built for the front-end that compiles to JavaScript. Due to its set of enforced assumptions, it leads to clean code and powerful programming constructs.Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Richard Feldman Sponsors Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Vue.js GitHub- N...
Jan 05, 2021•58 min
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and all...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for creating autonomous, competent developers when you hire someone who doesn't have as much experience. She walks us through setting expectations for the new hire, giving feedback, and assessing their performance.Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Emily Giurleo Sponsors Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Glue — Talk by Tanya Reilly Picks Luke- My...
Dec 30, 2020•8 min
Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing.Panels Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Hilary Stohs-Krause Sponsors Audible.com Links Cognitive behavioral therapy Win–stay, lose–switch Picks John - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine John- AppleCare Service John - Bitwarden Luke - Star Trek: Picard Luke- CAT GAMES - STRING ST...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ranges through troubleshooting complex systems, building team culture, blameless post-mortems, and monitoring the right things to make sure your applications don't fail or alert you when they do.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest Paul Zaich Links Paul's Twitter Paul's LinkedIn Picks Blood Pressure Monitor - Dave eft - Luke Ruby ...
Dec 01, 2020•48 min
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how th...
Nov 27, 2020•47 min
Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, we chat about the lessons learned.Links https://railsconf.com/2020/video/jesse-spevack-mistakes-were-made https://akka.io/ https://love.devchat.tv/you-dont-know-js-yet-challenge40653095 https://www.driftingruby.com/learning_paths/stimulus-js https://rails-hosting.com/2020/#javascript-rails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrqIgMxLKkw PicksLuke Amerl...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 8 min
2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework in 2020.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Charles Max Wood Links rails-hosting.com/2020 PicksChuck: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7932486-the-wheel-of-time-series-by-robert-jordan https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/...
Nov 17, 2020•53 min
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn how to actively improve debugging skills, train troubleshooting instincts and practical strategies for tackling brain-bending bugs.Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Charles Max Wood Guest Chelsea Troy Links https://chelseatroy.com/2020/01/13/a-framework-for-debugging/ PicksLuke Stutters: htt...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 16 min
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths of Arel, ActiveRecord’s private API. We learn why writing custom SQL queries in 2020 can make sense and how to unlock the more powerful features of modern databases without resorting to SQL strings. Eric tells us how he manages the potential pitfalls of using Arel and achieves massive performance wins for difficult queries on large databases.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dav...
Nov 03, 2020•34 min
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully get into coding and grow into a coding career. He talks about growing his YouTube channel, membership site, and deciding where you want to land in your career.Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Charles Max Wood Guest Joe Santos Garcia Links https://driftingruby.com https://www.pre...
Oct 27, 2020•58 min
React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about creating a great developer experience with React and Rails, the best way to manage your webpack configuration, simplify server and client-side rendering and avoid shaving those yaks!Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Charles Max Wood Guest Justin Gordon Links https://www.shakacode.com/react-...
Oct 13, 2020•15 min
Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the advantages over REST-based API queries and best practices for security and schemas.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Charles Max Wood Luke Stutters Guest Dmitry Tsepelev Links https://github.com/anycable/anycable https://graphql-ruby.org/ https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/persisted-queries-in-graphql-slim-down-apollo-requests-to-your-ruby-application ht...
Oct 06, 2020•50 min
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why Rails developers would want to use it.Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Jonathan Reinink Links https://inertiajs.com https://reinink.ca/articles/introducing-inertia-js https://reinink.ca/articles/getting-started-with-inertia-js https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/66 https://www.fullstackradio...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min
