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Panel: - Eric Berry- Dave Kimura- David Richards- Charles Max WoodIn 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 topic about “speculation” would be great today. What are we seeing in the community: what we like/don’t like, and what would you want to change?He talks about action text, JavaScript framework, and more. 3:41 – Chuck: Service-side rendering is what we talked about in the past. Divya does this with service–side rendering. For content sites that approach makes a lot of sense. I have playing around with this for the past week or so. I was taking it to rendering it to text.4:39 – Panel: Yeah, that’s the way to go.5:29 – Chuck:

Panel: Eric BerryCharles Max WoodNate 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 Mason. Introduce yourself!1:41 – Andrew / Guest: I have messed with every type of language, so there’s that!1:55 – Paul / Guest: I have been here at my current company for 5 years and it’s a consultancy firm. I have been working on Crystal.2:14 – Chuck: We are lucky to have you! Give people the elevator pitch for Lucky and Crystal?2:33 – Guest: Let’s talk about Crystal and looks very similar to Ruby! It’s faster and it’s a compound language. It catches a fair amount of things at compile time. The other special features

Panel: Dave KimuraCharles Max WoodNate 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 Justice! I am developing a show about developer freedom and it’s called The DevRev. It will be streamed through YouTube, and I will record Friday afternoons. Check out Facebook, too!2:11 – Josh: Thanks! I am happy to be here!2:18 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please!2:24 – Josh: I have been a developer for about 14 years. I have used PHP and then got into Ruby and then frontend development.2:46 – Chuck: You work for Big Nerd Ranch in Atlanta?2:56 – Josh: Yep for the last 3-4 years!3:15 – Chuck: Can you introduce the topic?3

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 background and his article. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Panel is Eric, Dave, Nate, myself – and our special guest is https://github.com/pecavalheiro Please introduce yourself! Is that Spanish or Portuguese?Chuck: P.S. – The http://thedevrev.com is my new show and check it!1:57 – https://github.com/pecavalheiro: My name means gentleman! Here at your service.2:05 – Guest: I am a developer and worked with web technologies for 10 years. I do some DevOps stuff an

Panel: David KimuraEric BerryIn 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 just the two of us today. I want to talk about our development environment. What is your setup like? Do you have an office space and your hardware?1:58 – Eric: I Have a room in my basement that has everything that I need. I do work from home. There is my guitar, my geek toys and more. For my hardware I am using 2017 MacBook Pro (16 GB of ram). The 13-inch is convenient, but I upgraded b/c I do a lot of traveling. I do pull the iPad out and use DUET. You no longer have to use a cord. I have a monitor that is 30-inches an

Panel: Dave KimuraCharles (Chuck) Max WoodNate 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 background. 2:13 – Guest: I am passionate about Emacs.2:55 – Chuck.2:58 – Panel: I have on a few projects. Do you know RUFO? It’s a bit more opinionated than RuboCop.3:25 – Guest: I am familiar with RUFO and their approach is similar to JavaScript called Pretty or something like that.4:45 – Guest:4:49 – Panel: Can you tell us what RuboCop is and why is it important?5:00 – Guest:There are a few main things that RuboCop is:1.) Placement for Ruby minor...2.) Lint tool3.) Automatic checker for all the best practices outlined in

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 panel is Dave, David, myself, and our guest is https://twitter.com/danmayer?lang=en. Say “Hi”!1:24 – Chuck: Give a brief introduction, please.1:32 – Dan gives his background and what he currently is working on. 1:53 – Chuck: We wanted to talk to you about benchmarking and performance. Tell us how you got into this?2:28 – Dan: It has been an interesting timeline for me. About seven years I worked for a large site that had a legacy Rails app. It got a lot of dusty corners over the years and we removed dead code, and removed

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.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume http://gsamokovarov.com/resume/. Send Genadi an email or follow his https://twitter.com/gsamokovarov Show Topics:0:00 – https://sentry.io/welcome/ 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please.1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for.  2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else?2:05 – Guest.3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console?3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question.4:13 – Chuck:

Panel: Dave KimuraEric BerryNathan HopkinsDavid 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.1:07 – I am David Kimura and here is the panel! Tell us what is going on?1:38 – Jason: I started my own podcast, and have been doing that for the past few months. That’s one thing. I started a new site with CodeWithJason.com.2:04 – You released a course?2:10 – Jason: Total flop and it doesn’t exist, but I am doing something else.2:24 – I bet you learned a lot by creating the course?2:34 – Jason: The endeavor of TEACHING it has helped me a lot.2:50 – Tell us why we should drink the Koolaid?3:02 – Jason: What IS testing? Goo

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: Good question. I do a lot of different things and I try to challenge programming and take it a newHow can I be the most expressive person with code? I have written things to write music with code.2:00 – Code is just a medium like dancing and writing. You can write to write code but as to write poetry.2:33 – Tell us about Sonic Pi – the project you have developed to generate music from code.2:42 – Sam: It’s a very simple program. It’s an app that you can run on Mac or Windows and others. It was written as a response to t

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 – Julia: I wanted to know WHY my computer was doing what it was doing. I felt that it was my right, so I wrote that program.3:20 – Julia: This does have these profiling tools in Java. I thought it was unfair that Java had better tools than Ruby. I figured Ruby should have it, too.3:44 – Chuck talks about tools and Ruby Spy.4:05 – Julia recommends it.Julia: You had to install the gem in order to use it.4:30 – Chuck: some people say that it has affected their performance.4:42 – Julia: Ruby Spy is a separate process.Julia con

Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks amongst themselves the topic: “When to Build, or When to Buy.” They discuss how time is limited, and whether it is worth their time to build their own app/software or to just purchase. They discuss the pros and cons of each. Check-out today’s episode for more details!Show Topics:1:40 – Chuck: Anything that prompted choosing this topic?2:13 – Dave: I am not a huge stickler of keeping tracks of things. With a new car, I wanted to start this off right. I wanted an app to show history of car. I wanted a simple view and wanted to take pictures of receipts. I didn’t find anything out there that I liked. Do I want to write a web application?3:29 – Dave: I am going to write this app. There is a lot of the new technology, so I can keep up-to-date with real world technologies, with the act of storage. Keeping my skills sharp. Solving a real world need that I have.4:06 – Panelist: Funny thing. That is a decision that has evolved

Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric Berry Special Guests: Saverio Miroddi In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Saverio Miroddi who is an engineer among other things. Saverio has written articles, and a link to two of his articles is found below. The panel and Saverio talk about Ruby, Ruby Motion, Shoes, Hackety Hack, and much more! Check out the episode!Show Topics:2:05 – Chuck asks a question.2:42 – Chuck: What do you recommend for the listeners?2:49 – Saverio: At the time I recommended an underdog. Now, making a recommendation is kind of hard. It depends on what they need. It’s fascinating in a way, because web development is not straightforward. Through the choice the subject is so wide.3:58 – Panelist: Building desktop applications the very last thin I think: I should build this in Ruby. It sounds like I am not the only person. Why would people want to build desktop apps in Ruby versus another program?4:38 – Chuck: I was thinking the same thing.4:59 – Saverio: Personally, I like consisten

Panel: - Charles Max Wood- Dave Kimura- Eric Berry Special Guests: Rahul MahaleIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Rahul Mahale. Rahul is a Senior DevOps Engineer at BigBinary in India. He has also worked with SecureDB Inc., Tiny Owl, Winjit Technologies among others. In addition, he attended the University of Pune. The panel and the guest talk about https://kubernetes.io.Show Topics:1:25 – https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3074500-ruby-rogues?store_id=172938 1:49 – Chuck: Why are you famous?1:57 – Guest’s background.4:35 – Chuck: https://kubernetes.io – Anyone play with this?4:49 – Panelist: Yes. Funny situation, I was working with https://www.heroku.com/languages. https://www.heroku.com/languages is very costly, but great.The story continues...6:13 – Panelist: I was so overwhelmed with how difficult it was to launch a simple website. Now, that being said we were using the https://aws.amazon.com/eks/, which is the https://kubernetes.io. They don’t have nearly as much good tools, but that’s my

Panel: - Charles Max Wood- Dave Kimura- Eric Berry Special Guests: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com who is a Ruby and Elixir developer at https://appsignal.com. Jeff writes for the https://appsignal.com newsletter and has a blog. Check out today’s episode where the panel talks about AppSignal, Russian doll caching, Drifting Ruby, JavaScript Sprinkles, cache warming, N+1 plus other topics.Show Topics:2:47 – Code Fund & https://newrelic.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpbDg_MSz3QIVAhtpCh2qpgebEAAYASAAEgJnivD_BwE&utm_campaign=googlebrand+JM+ABM+Q1FY19+acq+NORAM&utm_medium=PS&utm_source=Google 3:40 – https://appsignal.com might be the only support for https://elixir-lang.org.4:12 – The integration, the ease was so simple and your (Jeff) documentation made it very easy.4:46 – Comparatively to New Relic, https://appsignal.com is cheaper, isn’t it?4:59 – We don’t charge for host, we charge per request. That’s where to difference in pri

Panel: Charles Max WoodDavid RichardsDave KimuraEric Berry Special Guests: John HawthornIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to John Hawthorn about MJIT. John has been a Ruby programmer for about 9 years and is based in Victoria, B.C. They talk about what MJIT is, the effects you can see from using the MJIT compiler, and why the JIT doesn’t always work with other languages. They also touch on how you can use the JIT in your own code, how he makes his performance better, and more!Show Topics:1:36 – John is a Ruby programmer, and has been one for the past 9 years, and he is based out of Victoria, B.C.5:00 – He had always been curious how a JIT would work and found that it was always too difficult to work with. Since discovering MJIT, he has been able to work with these compilers because he understands how to work with C code.7:36 – Ruby has a bytecode and it looks a lot like an assembly language, which is approachable to a Rubyist.8:24 – The core of MJIT is an ERB template which take this bytecode, l

Panel: Dave KimuraEric Berry Special Guests: Luke FranclIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Luke Francl about his article “Upgrading Rails applications incrementally”. Luke works at GitHub on search and has been there since October 2017. Before working at GitHub, he worked at a search startup that was working with Rails and Elasticsearch. They talk about things that people take for granted with search, the impending takeover of GitHub from Microsoft, and what open source looks like today. They also touch on the process of getting hired at GitHub, his process for upgrading Rails applications, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:Luke introWorking with Rails and ElasticsearchWhy he decided to come to GitHubSurreal working at GitHubWhat are some of the things that people take for granted with search?What people expect from searchWordpressGitHub has been very focused on the Microsoft deal recentlyCode SponsorGitHub/Microsoft owns open sourceOpen source todayKubernetesThe GitHub officeWhat

Panel: Charles Max WoodEric BerryDavid Richards Special Guests: Nate BerkopecIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Nate Berkopec about Ruby Performance. Nate is a freelance Ruby performance consultant and he writes and works on Ruby application performance, specifically Rails applications, which he has been doing for the past 3 or 4 years. They talk about his past experience, what led him to Ruby performance, and why he loves Turbolinks. They also touch on the two benefits to performance work, if Ruby performance on the back-end really matters for the majority of cases, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:Nate introRuby and RailsWas on Shark TankWhat led you into Ruby performance?Always enjoyed the easily quantified parts of developmentPerformance work is very cut and dryWhy do you love Turbolinks?100ms to Glass with Rails and Turbolinks – Turbolinks articleThe beauty of TurbolinksThe Complete Guide to Rails PerformanceThe two benefits to performance workMaking things scalable and back

Panel: Eric Berry Special Guests: Sihui HuangIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Sihui Huang about his article "How to Contribute to Ruby." Sihui is currently a back-end engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies. They talk about her experience in the programming world, why she chose to work with Ruby, and they touch on her article and why she decided to write it. They also touch on the three focuses for Ruby 3, if she thinks Ruby has a long time future, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:Sihui introBack-end engineer at GustoWorking with Rails and RubyHow old is the app?How long have you been programming in Ruby?Why Ruby?Working with Ruby is like talking to a friend"How to Contribute to Ruby"What is your experience with Mats?Try to keep decision making as open as possibleThe three focuses for Ruby 3How Ruby is trying to achieve concurrencyRoom for improvementDo you see Ruby having a long time future?Ruby is not going anywhereThe phi

Panel: Charles Max WoodDavid RichardsEric BerryDave Kimura Special Guests: Prathamesh SonpatkiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Prathamesh Sonpatki about Rails 5. Prathamesh works for BigBinary, where they publish a lot of blog posts on things like Ruby, speaks at conferences and is the organizer of RubyConf India. They talk about the biggest changes that have occurred from the new Rails 5 release, CISM tests, and the struggle that testing brings. They also touch on different testing approaches, especially in Rails 5, Capybara tests, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:Prathamesh introWhat have you been doing with Rails 5?What have you been digging into with testing and features within Rails 5?Major changes with testing scenariosMore focus on end-to-end testingOld issues fixedUnit testing in RailsRefactoring on database cleaningCISM testsCypressExploring with Cypress and issues with itcapybara-webkitHating testingMike Moore talk referenceTesting across the board integrationUsing Ja