Alessandro Desantis is the director of Nebulab and is currently working on Solidus. After talking a little bit about how Nebulab got started, he describes what Solidus is. Solidus is a free, open source eCommerce platform built in Ruby on Rails that gives you complete control over your store. Three things that set it apart from other eCommerce platforms are that it is governed by a single company and that the focus is on quality and backwards compatibility. One of their biggest goals is to make ...
Dec 10, 2019•32 min
Today the panel discusses the difference between Swagger and Open API with Josh Ponelat. Josh details the difference between the two. Swagger is a set of protocols around describing restful APIs. Swagger was taken over by a company called SmartBear, who donated the donated the specification to the Open Linux Foundation, and that became the Open API. Swagger is the tooling surrounding these specifications. Open API is a standardized way to describe a restful API in a YAML file. Once you’ve got a ...
Dec 03, 2019•47 min
Andrew Glass is a Brooklyn based Rubyist operating a small independent devshop called Bang Equals. He has held many ‘enrichment jobs’, including being a ball person at US Open for 5 years, traveling for judging Guinness World Record attempts, and will be a balloon holder in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Today the panel is discussing his about his 2018 RailsConf talk, Human Powered Rails: Automated Crowdsourcing In Your Ruby on Rails App. In his talk, he shows the audience how to ...
Nov 26, 2019•44 min
Today Charles and Dave are discussing deviating from the Rails core. Dave doesn’t care for JavaScript frameworks or microservices as he believes that they add too much complexity. These things may become necessary when your project gets massive, but otherwise we shouldn’t jump to these as a first option. If you don’t need the frontend powerhouse features, you may want to see how far you can get with Rails and a minimal frontend. React may not always be the solution that you need. They discuss jQ...
Nov 19, 2019•43 min
Khash and Kasia work for Cloud 66, a company started in 2012 with a goal to make Rails deployment simple and infrastructure easy to understand for application developers. As the company has moved towards containerization, they have integrated with Kubernetes. Khash talks about what distinguishes Cloud 66 from other platform as a service companies and why the company was started. He begins by talking about the structure of Heroku, how they own the entire stack down to the server, and how they are...
Nov 12, 2019•56 min
Michael Herold is married to an economist and is a staff engineer at Flywheel where he writes Ruby programs to support PHP programs. He gave a talk at RailsConf 2018 about how to price a product. The frame for the problem is whenever you have a business idea, you eventually have to decide how to price it, and the pricing area is ripe for inefficiency on both customer and business ends. In his talk, he gave a simple framework based on the field of market research that helps give you an idea of wh...
Nov 05, 2019•45 min
Graham Conzett has been a developer for 12 years. He has worked with Ruby and Rails for half of that, and currently works for a company that does large format touchscreens. Graham gave a talk at RailsConf 2018 called “Old School JavaScript and Rails” where he talks about the experience of JavaScript fatigue. The world of JavaScript changes very quickly, and sometimes it feels like there’s a new framework every week. Because there is no clear winner among these frameworks, many Rails developers f...
Oct 22, 2019•59 min
Ross Kaffenberger is a software engineer at Stitch Fix and has been developing web applications for the past 12 years, mostly in Ruby and JavaScript. Today he and the panel are discussing how to survive Webpack. When many folks first encounter Webpack, they feel confused, overwhelmed, and don’t know how to get it to do what you want it to. In the latest version they tried to introduce some more sane default settings, but it is still a major change in technology. Ross talks about how his company ...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 24 min
John Epperson has been doing ruby for 12 years and is a friend of Andrew Mason. He got into Docker a couple years ago and felt like something was missing, so he wrote Shiplane. He liked Docker because it was a promise that he could delegate a lot of the manual devops work to something else, and that something else was able to automate all of it. What he noticed was if you have a Docker thing in development and want to transfer it into production, there was no clear path to get a Docker item from...
Oct 08, 2019•27 min
Mike Schutte is a fronted developer at TED conferences and was trained in code school at Turing in Colorado. He likes the idea of code as a communication tool, and in 2018 he gave a talk at RailsConf called Stop Testing. Start Storytelling. Today the panel is discussing what Mike means by storytelling in testing. In order to combat the hesitancy to start testing, Mike believes that changing your mindset to think away from the implementation details while deploying these tests can help them be mo...
Oct 01, 2019•41 min
Todd Kaufman is one of the cofounders of Test Double, a software development consultancy that was started 8 years ago. Todd talks about how he got started with Test Double and how it grew. He and Justin started Test Double because he felt that a lot of consultancies didn’t align with what they thought was important. Most consultancies then didn’t focus on good software development practices, and instead focused solely on the process. They decided that they would put the developers first and fore...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Episode Summary Today’s guest Elia Schito has been a Ruby developer for 12+ years and works for Nebulab. During his career he looked for Ruby to JavaScript translators and found Opal. The panel discusses where Opal belongs within an app and when the compilation into JavaScript occurs. The main reason a person would want to use Opal is to avoid writing in JavaScript. Elia talks about the benefits of using Opal. One is that productivity is better in a language like Ruby. Also, if you’re working on...
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr
Episode SummaryAdam Cuppy is the cofounder and current chief operating officer at Zeal, web and mobile app consultancy. Today the panel is discussing the talk he gave at Rails Conf called Mechanically Confident. Adam has a hypothesis that confidence is not the result of belief alone but ingrained routine. The more routine, the more pattern, the more rehearsal applied to a given thing, the more confident you are with that thingThe history behind Adam’s theory stems from his background in theater ...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Sustain Our Software Adventures in Blockchain Panel David Kimura Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Charles Max Wood With Special Guest: David Heinemeier HanssonEpisode SummaryToday’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. Da...
Sep 03, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Datadog React Native Radio Panel David Kimura Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Paul TarjanEpisode SummaryPaul Tarjan works for Stripe specializing in developer productivity. In the past, he has owned his own company and worked for Facebook. In today’s episode, the panel is talking about Sorbet, a gradual type checker for Ruby that Paul built. Paul talks about how Sorbet fits in the Ruby community and how it works. The two parts of Sorbet are the...
Aug 27, 2019•48 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Datadog Panel David Kimura Andrew Mason Charles Max Wood With Special Guests: Julian FahrerEpisode Summary Julian Fahrer has been a guest on Devchat shows before and recently did a workshop at RailsConf about Docker. He specializes in teaching people about Docker and has his own course, LearnDocker.online . Julian begins by giving suggestions for those considering Dockerizing their Rails applications. He talks about why Docker is a good choice t...
Aug 20, 2019•58 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Datadog Panel David Kimura Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins With Special Guests: Taylor JonesEpisode SummaryTaylor Jones works remotely for Heroku in technical support. He talks about some of the most common issues he helps customers with and what issues he saw when Webpacker was introduced. The panel talks about their experience using Webpacker and how it has influenced their usage of React and Ruby. They talk about the importance of creating maintain...
Aug 13, 2019•42 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Datadog Panel David Kimura Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Episode SummaryToday the panel is talking about documentation. They begin by discussing what documentation is, where it fits within an application, and if the code documents itself. They agree that documentation starts in the comments to explain what you’re doing, but if that’s your exclusive method, then a refactor is in order. They talk about where to start with documentation and different w...
Aug 06, 2019•40 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments : Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason With Special Guests: David A. Black and Joseph Leo IIIEpisode SummaryDavid A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years. Joseph spent 12 years in software and started the company Def Method Inc. Together, they co-authored the book T...
Jul 30, 2019•49 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments : Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Daniel PritchettEpisode Summary Daniel Pritchett started doing Ruby in 2012. Lately he has been working on publishing a book on building Chatbots in Ruby using a framework called Lita and does infrastructure for a startup called Gremlin . Gremlin reaches out to servers ...
Jul 21, 2019•44 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments : Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues RedisGreen Panel Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Kir ShatrovEpisode SummaryToday’s guest Kir Shatrov is a production engineer on Shopify based in London, UK. Today, he and the panel are discussing capacity planning. Kir believes that capacity planning becomes a priority when your company starts...
Jul 16, 2019•55 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues RedisGreen Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Andrew Mason Episode SummaryToday’s topic is the Stimulus library. Stimulus is actually a JavaScript framework and library, but it’s also built by Basecamp, so it works really well in Rails. There is a demand for rich client side interactions, and Stimulus fills in some of the gaps...
Jul 09, 2019•33 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Steve PeakEpisode Summary Today’s guest Steve Peak has been an entrepreneur and developer for a decade specializing in building tools. He built the company Codecov, one of the top performers in the github ecosystem. His next project is Storyscript, first and only top level programming language that focuses on business logic. The p...
Jul 02, 2019•47 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Panel Charles Max Wood David Kimura Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Olivier LacanEpisode SummaryOlivier Lacan joins the panel again. He currently works for Pluralsight. Today they are talking about the spectrum of creating a Rails app, or any app, from the birth of the idea to the death of the project. They stress the importance of planning for updates. Olivier talks about his experi...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 10 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 Episode SummaryCharles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv . Devchat.tv is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future su...
Jun 18, 2019•17 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood David Kimura David Richards Andrew Mason With Special Guest: Leonardo TegonEpisode Summary Leonardo Tegon is a software developer at Plataformatec, the company that created Devise. Leonardo talks about how he ended up at Plataformatec and shares a little bit about th...
Jun 11, 2019•50 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins With Special Guest: Pete Holiday Episode SummarySpecial Guest Pete Holiday is the director of engineering at a company called Samsara and specializes interviewing software engineers. The panel begins by talking about some of the ...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood Andrew Mason Dave Kimura David Richards Episode SummaryToday the panel is talking about the many applications of Docker. They talk about where Docker fits into the development lifestyle and what kind of applications Docker can help with. Dave goes over some of the so...
May 28, 2019•55 min
Sponsors Sentry use code “devchat” for $100 credit Triplebyte offers $1000 signing bonus Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $66 free credits with promo code RubyRogues Panel Charles Max Wood David Richards Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins David Kimura Episode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses how having too many tools in your code can make things more complicated. They talk about if the processes and tools that hurt productivity should ...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Dave Kimura Andrew Mason SummaryDave Kimura starts the episode by defining asynchronous jobs; he and Andrew Mason discuss the differences between server side and client side asynchronous jobs. They discuss use cases and address scenarios for which asynchronous jobs can be used for. Dave answers Andrew’s questions about tools, gems, and libraries. Dave ex...
May 14, 2019•50 min
