Remote Ruby Docker Disasters and Dev Container Journeys
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Dec 5, 2025 Explore the evolution of Rails development as Andrew and Chris dive into dev containers, the switch to Playwright, and the challenges of running services in containers. They share personal parenting struggles, from sleep-deprived nights to daycare dilemmas, while humorously reflecting on life as new dads. Also discussed are the complexities of building practical SaaS applications and the pressing concerns of energy sources, all mixed with entertaining anecdotes about kids' programming and recent TV shows.
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Switch From Selenium To Playwright
- Replace Selenium with Playwright to avoid running a Selenium service and reduce flakiness in tests.
- Install Playwright as an NPM package and simplify dev container test setup.
Rails Dev Containers And Feature Overlap
- Rails provides dev container templates and features (like Node or Active Storage) to simplify development environments.
- Using mise (Mies) can conflict with dev container features so you may need to disable overlapping tools.
OrbStack Replaced Docker Desktop
- Andrew switched from Docker Desktop to OrbStack on his M5 Mac and saw much faster builds and easier usage.
- He installed OrbStack, opened it only to ensure it ran, and everything worked without fiddling with Docker Desktop.