Navigating the Rails: Learning and Troubleshooting

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew catch up on recent travels and food experiences, including the best Philly cheesesteaks they’ve ever had. The conversation shifts towards development topics, particularly testing challenges and solutions in Ruby on Rails, featuring discussions about emoji pickers, asset pipelines, and the prawn library. Chris shares updates on acquiring an old Rails app, One Month, and future plans for this project. They also explore various development hiccups and solutions, including using libraries for faster system tests and streamlining asset pipelines. The episode wraps up with insights into new tools like an official Postgres extension for VS Code and plans for future video content on their platform.

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• One Month
• Running Rails System Tests With Playwright Instead of Selenium by Justin Searls
• Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft
• Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria

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