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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
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