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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the benefits they felt they received from implementing it. Ufuk also reveals a little bit about how Shopify transitioned to fully remote and about how that will be the default moving forward.Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Guest Ufuk Kayserilioglu Picks Luke Stutters: https://gith...
Sep 22, 2020•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in Ruby for the Ruby 3×3 goal all while being humbled a bit as Takashi improves our understanding around the subject.Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Takashi Kokubun Links https://github.com/mame/optcarrot medium.com/@k0kubun/jit-development-progress-at-ruby-2-7 Koichi Sasada PicksLuke Stutters: The World of Transcendental Programming (...
Sep 15, 2020•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoringSponsor CacheFly Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Dabbs Links https://github.com/github/scientist PicksJohn Epperson: Refactoring Cheatseets James Dabbs: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! A tour of Unison Luke Stutters: Meet Author R.A. Salvatore Dave Kimura:: Video Chat with WebRTC DEWALT 20V MAX XR Hammer Drill Matt Smith: Mostly Adequate ...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the rest of STEM) since the 1980s, reasons why women are leaving mid-career and how we can help reverse this trend. Tricia gives practical actions that can be taken to improve company culture, recruitment and retention of under-represented groups.Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Want to level up on DevOps? Check out ou...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We discuss the lessons learned from Rails megaprojects and how to use these tips in your own projects to reduce technical debt and tools to keep your monolith majestic when the code won't stop coming.Panel Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Kyle d'Oliveira Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you...
Aug 11, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior developer to successful senior software engineer. Dylan and the rogues talk about on-boarding junior developers and building up confidence.Panel Charles Max Wood John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest Dylan Andrews Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Rails Remote Conf 2020 PicksDylan Andrews: Follow Dylan on Twitter &g...
Aug 04, 2020•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our applications. WebAuthn is a standard that allows you to accept biometric, device based, and other types of authentication as a second or first factor. Gonzalo and Braulio have published a gem that allows you to add webauthn to your Ruby applications and have joined the Rogues to talk through the implications of using it in your applications.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John ...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the Rogues through the ins and outs of building a PWA and what it’s like adding the features you need to get a PWA set up on Rails. It turns out to be surprisingly straightforward and yet has a ton of potential.Panel John Epperson Matt Smith Charles Max Wood Guest John Beatty Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Rails Remote C...
Jul 21, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet" In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors in a service-based system and how to prioritize what errors to fix. He goes into how to recognize the errors when they are creeping in and so much more.Panel Dave Kimura John Epperson Matt Smith Luke Stutters Guest James Thompson Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout R...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the spiritual successor to ActiveResource. It provides a convenient way to provide an API that understands the object graph in your application without needing to resort to GraphQL.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Luke Stutters Matt Smith Guest Lee Richmond Sponsors Resolve Digital Rails Remote Conf 2020 Links Nested Forms from Scratch with StimulusJS | Drifting Ruby Pick...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joel Hawksley is an engineer at Github who works on some of their Rails architecture. He is one of the authors of the view_component gem. He walks the Rogues through the genesis of the project and the pros and cons of using a library like view_component and how it adds testability and easy management to Rails views.Panel Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Luke Stutters Guest Joel Hawksley Sponsors Resolve Digital "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now avai...
Jun 09, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions, thereby getting their input in situations where we otherwise would not. She provides some tips for extroverts to invite the input, Luke brings his patented sarcasm to the table, we discuss some pitfalls and Dee really brings some fantastic advice to the table for those trying to moderate discussions as well as for those of us having small discussions with our colleagues.Panel John E...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
