Ruby On Rails Podcast

How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases. Links for this episode:Kill All Mutants Abstractions SlidesMutation TestingCodosaurus, LLCMutant Gem on GithubMutest on GithubHeckle on GithubDave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2. Links for this episode:Scott Hanselman Coder, Blogger, Teacher, Speaker, AuthorRuby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS CodeInstall Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic BeaverFirst Timers OnlyScott on Twitter (@shanselman)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your

Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written. Links for this episode:Episode 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean DevineSean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. S

Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and why Turbolinks can be awesome! Links for this episode:Past RubiesAbout Google Pay API for PassesHow We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking JavascriptRemote Ruby PodcastNick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)Brittany Martin's SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/rubyonrails.

Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover. Links for this episode:Event-driven architectureConfreaks TV | EventsCover's BlogCover on Twitter (@cover)Cover on FacebookCareers @ CoverEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. S

Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby. Links for this episode:Why did Stripe choose to use Ruby for its backend language?SorbetSorbet PlaygroundRDL (research project for ruby typing)Hack (typechecker for PHP)MyPy (typechecker for Python)TypeScript (typechecker for JavaScript)Paul's Favorite Juggling LibraryVideo of Paul JugglingPaul Tarjan on Twitter (@paultarjan)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Joining Brittany this week is Michael Kelly, a Senior Engineer with Stackshare and a passionate contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is the author of the graphql-cache gem, a caching plugin for graphql-ruby. Links for this episode:StackSharegraphql-ruby on Githubgraphql-cache on GithubMichael Kelly on Github (@thebadmonkeydev)StackShare on Github (@stackshareio)StackShare on Twitter (@stackshareio)StackShare NewsletterStackShare CareersEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/ruby.

Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core. Links for this episode:GalvanizeMojoTechPR to Introduce Support for ActionView::ComponentNatasha Umer on Github (@natashau)joelhawksley/actionview-component-demoTrailblazer Gemdry-view Gemkomponent GemIntroducing Project Paper CutsJoel Hawksley's BlogJoel Hawksley on Github (@joelhawksley)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout

Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards. Links for this episode:Nick Schwaderer - OceansHQ - Future Sync 2019ITP 2.1 And Web AnalyticsPast Rubies #1: Ruby Celebrity Free-For-AllPull Panda is joining GitHub!Jumping to the definition of a function or method on GithubErgoDox EZ KeyboardNick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)Brittany Martin's SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Whether you want to learn in-person or online, Flatiron School helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back. Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at w

Roller Derby Nation is a growing network, dedicated to serving roller derby fans and their skaters. Brittany (Norma Skates) invited its founder, Scott Pio (Veggie Delight), on to the show to discuss dedication to your side hustle and how multi-tenancy can extend your application's reach. Links for this episode:Roller Derby NationDefinition of MultitenancySpoiled Techie | Scott's Blog MakerlogEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Whether you want to learn in-person or online, Flatiron School helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back. Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at www.flatironschool.com/Ruby.

Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. As a maintainer of a platform codebase, her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs and abstracting away lower level framework code. Which is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL! Links for this episode:GraphQL Migration: A Proper Use Case for Metaprogramming?ProtobuffersGraphqlRuby GemGraphoid GemShawnee Gao on Twitter (@gaoshawnee)Shawnee Gao on Github (@shawneegao)Square Developer on Twitter (@squaredev)Square Developers Landing SiteSquare Developers Slack ChanneSquare Developers BlogEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Brittany welcomed back Sean Devine, former host of the Ruby on Rails podcast , and now CEO of XBE. Along with catching up, Sean and Brittany discussed betting on solid technologies and his advice for technical CEOs. Links for this episode:XBEJSON:API — A specification for building APIs in JSONtailwindcss | A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designscorber | CLI for building hybrid apps with Ember/Vue/Glimmer/Cordova Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Chris Oliver, creator of GoRails and co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, joined Nick Schwaderer to discuss his experience at Railsconf 2019. They also dive into form builder changes, documentation and ponder when Rails 6 will be released. Links for this episode:GoRailsHatchboxRailsconf 2019Remote Ruby PodcastSchedule from Railsconf 2006(Unofficial) DHH Keynote @ RailsConf 2019Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release NotesChris Oliver on Twitter (@excid3)Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce in Rails. The minitest advocate recounted the origins of Lamby, a simple Rails & AWS Lambda integration using Rack with Brittany. Links for this episode:Custom Inkcustomink/lambyRuby on Jets | The Ruby Serverless FrameworkAWS CloudformationKen Collins on Twitter (@metaskills)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Sonja Peterson is a senior software engineer at Devoted Health, working in Go and Typescript. Sonja guested on the show to speak with Brittany about her upcoming RailsConf talk, transitioning to Go and to spill on her favorite crime novels. Links for this episode:DevotedHealthBookBubThe Go Programming LanguageFixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective @ RailsConf 2019The Practical Test PyramidTana French's BooksThe 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonRobert Galbraith's BooksSonja Peterson on Twitter (@sonjabpeterson)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse". Links for this episode:Sam's BlogDiscourseminiracer | Minimal embedded v8Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing DiscourseSam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript. Links for this episode:RubyMotion: Write cross-platform native apps in RubyMountaineers on Slack6 Pack AppsRubyMotion JumpstartRuby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori OlsonRedPotionThe Sleeping Dragon Has Awoken, And Is Filled With A Terrible ResolveAmir Rajan on Twitter (@amirrajan)Lori M Olson on Twitter (@wndxlori)WNDX School

Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications. Links for this episode:A Cloud GuruLinux AcademyAWS CertificationCanonical | The company behind UbuntuUbuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of LifeAmazon EC2 Reserved InstancesAWS Auto ScalingJustin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox CloudPostfix - Ubuntu DocumentationWindows RADIUS serverAWS CodeDeployAmazon CloudWatchAWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera Justin Snair on Linked InJustin Snair on UpworkEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs. Links for this episode:Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEdouard Chin on Github Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 DeprecationsShopify's Deprecation ToolkitShopify's BootbootEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Blockstack The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.

Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small. Links for this episode:Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerHigher PixelsBuzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Blockstack The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.