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The Ruby Blend - Episode 21 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Dave had a great idea for our topic today, which we'll be talking about our development setups, our environments, and some of the equipment we are using. Dave tells us about Elgato Steam Deck that he's getting soon and pingVerse. We will learn the guys favorite fonts, browsers they are using, specific equipment that is in their office, and what applications they can't live without. Dave makes a point about keeping your desk clean and why doe...
The Ruby Blend - Episode 20 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! It's been awhile and it sure feels good to back in the swing of things! Today, we have a new panelist with us, Dave Kimura, who's been doing Ruby for quite some time, as well as doing the Drifting Ruby screencast for over five years now. On this episode, we dive into the topic of Service Object, where do they belong in your app and how do you name it in Ruby on Rails. We discuss namespacing and how to name interactors the correct way. Dave e...
The Ruby Blend - Episode 19 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today we have a new panelist with us, Eric Berry, who was the founder of CodeFund, and has worked with Andrew and Nate for a while. On this episode the guys will discuss Metaprogramming. What is it and how does it work? We will also learn about JSON Schema, ModelProbe, Slim, Haml, Tailwind, and ERB. So much interesting information! Download this episode now to find out what makes Andrew blush! ☺ Sponsored by: Honeybadger Panelists: Andrew Ma...
The Ruby Blend - Episode 18 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! The guys catch up on what's been going on this week. Ron has been taking an insurance class with his work to learn the ins and outs of the insurance industry, Nate's been busy working with Code Fund becoming an independent company, and Andrew has been on the interviewing circuit trying to find a new job. This leads us to the topic of today's episode, which is "Interviewing." The guys chat all about all the different things they've experience...
The Ruby Blend - Episode 17 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today's episode, we have a special guest, Brittany Martin, who is Lead Web Developer for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, where she is part of a team that develops the non-profits ticketing and festival web application and is also the host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast on the 5 by 5 Network. Brittany is here to tell us all about what she does, gem wrappers, and she is seeking some counsel from the guys today on various things. We talk about ...
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Nick Haskins, who works as a full-time solo Dev for CG Cookie and a year later he launched Blender Market. Both sites were started on WordPress but eventually outgrew the platform. Without any prior experience with Ruby on Rails, he built both apps from scratch and spent the next few years fixing, learning, and maintaining those platforms. Today, he is going to tell us all about his book he recently published called, Playbook ...
Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today's episode is all about testing! We have special guest, Jason Swett, who is the host of, "Rails with Jason Podcast" and author of, "Rails Testing For Beginners." If you've had very little or no testing experience, don't be afraid to listen to this episode, because Jason will start with a gentle testing intro so you won't get lost. We will talk about the basic tooling of Rails testing and what each of these tools do. Also, we discuss what kinds of tests y...
Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! In this episode, the guys talk about new and exciting things they've been working on. Nate starts out by talking about how he paired up with Jason Charnes of Podia and Remote Ruby, working on some great things on Stimulus Reflex. Andrew discusses a cool project to check out called BridgetownRB. Also, Andrew talks about some new projects he's been contributing to called "RailsBytes" and "AppLocale." Also, find out why Nate calls Ron the "Sage Wise One" on the ...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guests None this week. Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:15] Ron talks about the importance of architecture, the way we architect our apps, since he started working at Kin, a home insurance company. He asks the guys what they think about architecture in that sense? [00:05:25] Andrew brings up single responsibility pattern. Ron says patterns are dangerous, Nate likes them, and Andrew shares a story of patterns and a video that Chris Oliver did on refac...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guests Julian Rubisch Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:00:38] Julian tells us all about himself and his background. He also tells us how long he's been programming professionally and with Ruby on Rails. [00:04:24] Nate is wondering what Julian's observation is about the relationship between music and programming or any type of artistic endeavor in programming. Nate mentions a book by Paul Graham called, "Hackers and Painters." [00:06:43] Nate found it interesting...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guests Eric Berry Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:01:12] Eric tells us the story of how he found the inspiration for CodeFund as a company. [00:09:24] Nate asks Eric what kind of resistance he had at the beginning from the developers that he was pitching his ideas to, and he explains. [00:12:35] If Eric condensed CodeFund's mission down to an elevator pitch, what would it be and how would he summarize it? He lets us know right here. [00:13:05] Andrew is curious ...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guests None Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:00:41] Andrew announces that Ruby 2.4 is no longer supported so get off of it and upgrade! [00:02:32] Ron had some fun DevOps to share about with Digital Ocean, which actually weren't that fun, and you'll find out why. [00:10:30] Nate takes the conversation into talking about templates in engines with Ruby and Rails and View Component. Andrew is experimenting with Slm and he talks about it. Find out why Andre...
Panelists Andrew Mason Guest Panelists Chris Oliver Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:13] Joel starts off by saying it's an exciting time for the project with all the changes going on and he discusses some of these changes. He also talks about why View Component is not going to be in Rails 6.1 and is that a good thing or bad thing? [00:07:32] Joel talks about having 126 components and goes into further detail about them. Primer Design System and App Directory are mentioned. He also goes more in d...
Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:03:13] GitHub sponsors starts the talk on this episode, and how a few people have reached out about Stimulus Reflex asking how they can support the project and the various contributors. Ron shares what he's done. [00:05:30] Ron has been working on ramping up a Legacy Rails App that fell out of maintenance and it was a lot more painful than he wanted it to be with Gem conflicts and Gem lock files. He gives a lesson on wha...
Summary Nate, Ron, and Andrew stay quarantined along with the rest of the nation. Ron is happy he has snacks, so he's good! In this episode, the guys talk about Gatsby, Frontend JavaScript, Static Site Generation, and testing frameworks. Also, find out why Ron and Andrew affectionately refer to Nate as "Grandpa". Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guest None this week Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:00:54] The guys start off by telling stories about how being quarantined has changed the...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guest None this week Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:25] Nate asks Ron if his new company is using Rails like his last job. Ron explains how things like deploys are much easier and fast to do now, the differences in traffic, and the use of traditional Rails background jobs. [00:06:23] Ron, Andrew, and Nate discuss the benefit of Rails monolith framework and how it ends up being a single deployed distributed system. [00:10:11] From the, "Nate, please...
Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guest Chris Oliver Show Notes [00:01:37] Chris talks about how he discovered Ruby and began developing with it. It started with him wanting to build websites. [00:05:05] Active resource is mentioned and what it did. [00:08:12] Chris talks about IRC Bots that worked, and he also expands on his goal to teach himself how to use raw socket and the IRC Protocol. [00:12:15] What helped Chris get his first job? [00:14:17] Nate wants to know if Ruby is a good program ...
Panelists Ron Cooke Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:00:42] The guys discuss what they know about view component which is a component type library that GitHub was working on which was upstreamed into Rails and released with Rails 6.1. [00:01:18] Andrew mentions Joel Hawksley gave a talk at RailsConf last year about taking action of your component. GitHub was all in on this library seeing a lot of performance gains over traditional partials. [00:02:33] Andrew explains how you can ...
Sponsored By: Linode Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [01:32:15] Nate brings up Basecamp 3 and the new Hey! Menu, an email client competitor. Nate REALLY hopes it can replace Slack for him as he is tired of the constant notifications which mess with his workflow. [05:08:28] Ever curious Andrew has pulled the source code from Basecamp 3 and gives us a sneak peek at what is hidden in there and what might be coming down the road for Hey! [09:15:13] Nate ...
Sponsored By: Linode Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:46:14] In this episode, Ron talks about “blending” with Python as he updates services to Python 3. Also, he talks about what he’s bumping into as they go from 2.7 to 3 which included having to add parentheses to things like print statements, inequalities, and debugging. [04:43:06] Andrew inquires on what editor Ron is using and he states VIM. Andrew suggests PyCharm from Jet Brains is the cream...
Sponsored By: Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:00:00] In this episode, we’ll be digging deeper into the Ruby trends, how the Ruby conference went down, and how our panelists got into programming. Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. The Ruby conference was excellent and resourceful, not to mention the superb food. [00:00:41] Pattern matching is a trend that we are seeing with Ruby. It is ...
