Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Eric Berry Joined by Special Guest: Hongli LaiSummaryEric Berry starts by sharing how Phusion and Phusion passenger changed his career and thanks Hongli Lai for his work. Hongli talks about where Phusion is now and shares what's new with passenger 6. The panel compares passenger and puma and Hongli explains why passenger is t...
May 07, 2019•56 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Triplebyte $1000 signing bonus Redisgreen Cachefly Panel Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Eric Berry David Kumira Joined by Special Guest: Kurtis Rainbolt-GreeneEpisode SummaryKurtis has been working with Ruby and open source for 12 years. These days he works on maintaining large libraries like VCR. He talks about what VCR is, why it’s useful, and some of its limitations. The real topic of today’s show is Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open-source cont...
Apr 30, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free Triplebyte $1000 signing bonus Redisgreen Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Special Guest: Jason SwettEpisode SummaryJason Swett is a former host on Ruby Rogues. Now he has his own show, Ruby Testing Podcast and runs the site codewithjason.com where he teaches Rails testing. Today, Jason discusses turning fat models into skinny POROs (Plain Old Ruby Objects). He once read an article that said you don’t have to put all your code into active re...
Apr 17, 2019•50 min
Sponsors Triplebyte $1000 signing bonus Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit RedisGreen Panel David Kimura Eric Berry Andrew Mason Joined by special guest: Xavier NoriaEpisode SummaryThis episode of Ruby Rogues features Xavier Noria, who has a background in mathematics, but started software in 2000. He has been freelancing for the past 10 years, working especially in open source. He received the Ruby Hero award in 2010. His latest work is with his own creation, Zeitwerk, a more efficien...
Apr 16, 2019•54 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus StovePipe Studios Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Dave Kimura Eric Berry Joined by Special Guest: Igor MorozovSummaryThe panel interviews Igor Morozov about functional programming in ruby. Igor Morozov is a lifelong software programmer from Moscow who focuses on functional programming. The panel considers other languages to use for functional programming...
Apr 09, 2019•51 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins David Richards Dave Kimura SummaryCharles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of coll...
Apr 02, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Cachefly Panel Nate Hopkins Dave Kimura Andrew Mason Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Lori OlsonSummaryLori Olson introduces herself, her school and ruby motion. Lori invites all to come to her webinar introducing her “six steps from idea to app store”. The panel discusses their rubymotion experiences and issues; which Lori advises on gems that will help. Lori shares her...
Mar 26, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte CacheFly Panel David Kamira Eric Berry Andrew Mason Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad Episode Summary In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists speak with Karthik Gaekwad, who helped build the Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The panelists discuss the naming of Ruby as the Server-Side Programming Language of the Year in 2018, beating out PHP and Java. Karthik talks about incorporating Ruby into Oracle. His team uses Ruby in both develop...
Mar 21, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Cachefly Panel Andrew Mason Eric Berry Dave Kimura Joined by Special Guest: Sean HandleySummarySean Handley explains in detail ruby bindings and FFI and why they might be useful. The panel discusses the advantages of using a ruby binding, such as speed and opening up access to other projects. Sean Handley and Dave Kimura give advice on organizing code, to make it easier to use th...
Mar 19, 2019•50 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus Cachefly Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Andrew Mason Joined by Special Guest: Stefan WintermeyerEpisode summaryStefan Wintermeyer, a german consultant, discusses his recent blog post “Rails needs Active Deployment”. He goes on to explain that this isn’t meant for rails deployment “rockstars” or Heroku, this is for normal developers who need an easier way to deploy their rails appl...
Mar 12, 2019•55 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Panel Andrew Mason Eric Berry Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Maciej MensfeldEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Maciej Mensfeld, Senior Software Engineer at Castle Intelligence and the creator of the Karafka framework. Maciej explains to listeners the Karafka and Kafka frameworks and their advantages, the differences between Karafka and gems like DeliveryBoy and Ra...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel Dave Kimura Eric Berry Charles Wood Joined by special guest: Jesus CastelloEpisode SummaryIn this episode, Jesus Castello, a ruby developer who has been programming since he was 10 years old. He has been a Ruby Developer for 7 years. He teaches Ruby and has a Youtube channel and website. — discusses with the panel his post about Environmental Variables. Jesus teaches what an en...
Feb 27, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry - use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte CacheFly Episode Summary In this 400th episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists - Dave Kimura, Andrew Mason, Eric Berry, Charles Max Wood talk about themselves, their backgrounds, things they are working with, their journey and perspectives on life in general.Eric has been a developer since 1998 and is working on Ruby on Rails since 2008. He talks about his current company – CodeFund, an ethical advertising platform that helps open...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Panel Andrew Mason Eric Berry Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Tung NguyenEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy, a Bay Area based DevOps infrastructure consultancy. Tung is also the creator of Ruby on Jets. Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework, allowing you to to create serverless applications with Ruby. ...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Get Mani's 10x Productivity Book Summaries Freedom App use the code “MANI” for 50% off life-time Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Dave Kimura David Richards Brian Hogan Andrew Mason Special Guest: Mani VayaEpisode SummaryIn this episode Mani Vaya — founder of 2000books.com and former programmer — discusses productivity. He speaks on the following subtopics: the importance of planning out one’s day; identifying prior...
Feb 05, 2019•13 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad. 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 ....
Jan 30, 2019•45 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Panel Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest - Radoslav Stankov In this episode, the panelists of Ruby Rogues speak with Radoslav Stankov about GraphQL and its implementation in depth. Radoslav is based out of Sofia, Bulgaria and is the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt. He is a full stack developer since 2002, working on JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Elixir and GraphQL. Show Notes:0:00 – Charles introduce...
Jan 24, 2019•56 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Nathan Ruehs In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Nathan Ruehs. Nathan is a programmer residing in the Milwaukee area. He started working for a large corporation right after college and is currently trying to explore newer methods to incorporate Ruby in his day to day work. The panelists and Nathan talk about ways to sneak Ruby into big companies, diffic...
Jan 15, 2019•40 min
Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Vladimir Dem In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Vladimir Dem who is a Ruby developer and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today, the panelists and guest talk about cables, concurrency, and Ruby. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Hello! The panel today is Eric, Dave, Nate, and myself! Our guest is Vlad!1:30 – Guest: My name is Vladimir, but people call me Vlad. I...
Dec 25, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: - Eric Berry - Dave Kimura - David Richards - Charles Max Wood In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk amongst themselves on today’s topic, which is “speculation on frameworks.” They consider where the tech community currently is right now, and where it’s heading towards the future. They bring-up topics such as: Rails, Ruby, Angular, Agile, and much more. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:47 – Chuck: Check out the DevRev2:08 – Panel: A ...
Dec 18, 2018•53 min
Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Paul Smith and Andrew MasonIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky and Crystal. Other topics include: Ruby, Phoenix, Laravel Mix, Thoughtbot, Webpack, compilers, and much more! Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Welcome!! Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, and myself are the panel - and our special guests are Paul Smith and Andrew...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Josh Justice In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Josh Justice who is a developer, writer, and speaker. Josh streams JavaScript and web development on Friday’s at 2:00 PM (ET) here! The panelists and the guest talk about Josh’s background and frontend testing in Ruby. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Dave, Nate, and myself are on the panel and our special guest is Josh Jus...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Eric Berry - Charles Max Wood - Nate Hopkins Special Guest: http://pecavalheiro.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with http://pecavalheiro.com who is from Brazil, but currently resides in Hamburg, Germany where he works at Xing. He is a software engineer, an actor, and has been working with the web since 2010. He has worked mostly with Ruby and PHP languages, and since 2015 has worked full-time with Ruby on Rails. The panelists and Pedro talk about his...
Nov 27, 2018•54 min
Panel: David Kimura Eric Berry In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk amongst themselves about their favorite software, equipment, and apps. Both Eric and David thoroughly share their preferred picks within these categories, and they explain how and why they use the specified item. Check out today’s episode to hear more!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:03 – David: Welcome! Today, Chuck is not feeling well. I am David and today we have Eric Berry on our panel today. It is...
Nov 20, 2018•55 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Charles (Chuck) Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Dan Mayer In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Bozhidar Batsov who is the VP of Engineering at Toptal, and an Emacs fanatic. The panel and the guest talk about RubCop , Emacs , and Komodo , among other topics! Check out today’s episode for more details.Show Topics:0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:07 – Chuck lists the panelists and the special guest. 1:37 – Chuck: Why are you famous?1:41 – Guest gives his b...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Charles Max Wood - David Richards Special Guest: https://www.mayerdan.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/danmayer?lang=en who believes that small distributed software teams can make a large impact. Dan loves Ruby, distributed systems, OSS, and making development easier. The panel and Dan talk about performance and benchmarking. Check out today’s episode to learn more!Show Topics:0:00 – https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:07 – Chuck: Our p...
Nov 06, 2018•49 min
Panel: - Dave Kimura - Charles Max Wood - David Richards Special Guest: https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov?lang=en In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov?lang=en who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at https://github.com/gsamokovarov and his mixes on https://soundcloud.com/gsamokovarov Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.n...
Oct 30, 2018•42 min
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Nathan Hopkins David Richards Special Guest: Jason SwettIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Jason Swett who is a host of the podcast show, Ruby Testing! Jason also teaches Rails testing at CodeWithJason.com . He currently resides in the Michigan area and works for Ben Franklin Labs. Check-out today’s episode where the panelists and the guest discuss testing topics.Show Topics:0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! Check out the code: DEVCHAT @ Sentry.io....
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Panel: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kobaltz - Eric Berry Special Guest: Sam AaronIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Sam Aaron who is the creator of https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/graphs/contributors , which is the main topic that he and the panel talk about today. Sam is a computer scientist who has his Ph.D., and uses the Ruby language. He is also a programmer, educator, live coding musician, and father.Show Topics:1:25 – Panelist: Tell us what you are doing?1:27 – Sam:...
Oct 16, 2018•54 min
Panel: - https://twitter.com/cmaxw?lang=en - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kobaltz - David Richards Special Guests: Julia EvansIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Julia Evans who is a software engineer at Stripe and lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The panel talks with Julia about her tool Ruby Spy among other topics. Check it out!Show Topics:1:34 – Julia gives her background.1:52 – Chuck: You’ve been on the show before. Listeners, go check it out!2:30 – What is Ruby Spy?2:09 – ...
Oct 09, 2018•50 min